Goddess of Mercy Sign #17: Quench Your Thirst with Plums

Guanyin Lingzhi 17th Sign: Quench Thirst with Plums

Odds and Ends: Medium

House: dong

Poem says

Don't listen to idle talk about right and wrong, and only recite Maitreya in the morning and evening;
If the wild talk is true, how can the pancake stop the hunger.

Poetry

This is a sign of hunger. All things are more false and less real.

Said

Uncertainty in the mind. Read the scriptures in vain. It is just like a cake. It is difficult to swallow.

Senki

Household → Prayer

Self→Smooth upset

Seek for money →no luck

Trade→No luck

Marriage→blocked

Rokka→An empty pregnancy

Pedestrian→Late

The silkworms→should be planted early

Animals→unfavorable

Finding people→difficult to see

Lawsuits→and don't prosper

Migration→old-fashioned

Lost →not seen

Sickness→return of wishes

Hill Grave→auspicious

Guanyin Lingzhuan 17:Overall Interpretation

Don't listen to what people say about right and wrong

Remember the Buddha's name in the morning and evening

If you take untruthful words seriously

It is like eating a painted cake to satisfy the hunger

The Essence of this Sign

What one seeks in vain is the reward for breaking the precepts. You should perform penance, practice the precepts diligently, and accumulate more yin virtues for improvement.

Doing everything

This sign signifies that in life, don't listen to people talking about right and wrong, don't listen to people talking about the east and the west, when taking these free time, chanting more Buddha instead is better.

Love Marriage

Marriage is not to be sought, if you get marriage, doomed to frustration. If you have broken up, do not seek to get back together, so as not to be more worried. The Buddha's prayer in the morning and evening, but more peaceful.

Job Hunting Entrepreneurship

If you ask for a job

Frustration in finding a job comes from karmic obstacles. When one performs penance and holds precepts and does more good deeds, one can improve.

If you ask about starting a business or career

There is always something wrong in the business process. The benefits that will be gained often come to naught. This is the reason why karmic obstacles are at work. When practicing repentance and holding fasts, and doing more good deeds, then it can be improved.

Exams, competitions, promotions

This is because of karma. It's time to repent and do good deeds in order to improve the situation.

Investing Money

There will be losses and it is not advisable to invest. If you want to reform your future, you should perform penance and hold fasts and give more money in order to stop bad luck.

Curing Health

This is due to karmic obstacles. It is time to perform penance and hold precepts with a view to reducing the suffering of the disease.

Conversion Change

When there is adversity and things are not going well, even if there is a change, it will not help. The only thing to do is to repent and hold fast to the precepts.

Pregnancy and Children

The process of getting pregnant does not go well, and this is due to karmic obstacles. It is important to observe the precept of not killing and releasing life at random to improve the situation.

Lawsuit

This is an unavoidable consequence. Those who can make peace are honored with peace, but if they cannot make peace, they have only bad luck.

Searching for people and things

Exempt from seeking.

Traveling Abroad

It is better to be contented. There is nothing to be gained by going far away.

Allusion

Talking about plums quenches thirst. Three Kingdoms. Cao Cao leads an army. Lack of water in the season of defeat. The soldiers were thirsty. Cao Cao said, "There is a silent forest in front of us. There, they could eat plums to quench their thirst. The soldiers listened and their mouths watered. Then they did not feel thirsty. This allusion to quenching one's thirst by looking for plums. With the same meaning of the cake and hunger.