Pocket Temple

The 100 Guanyin lots

Lot 76 of 100

Fish and dragons are mixed together in harmony

The poem

魚龍混雜意和同耐守寒潭未濟中不覺一朝頭角聳禹門一跳到天宮

In English

Fish and dragons are mixed together in harmony.Endure the cold pool, still unfinished.Unaware, one day your horns rise up,and in one jump over the Dragon Gate you reach the heavenly palace.

What it says

Fish and dragons swim together and cannot yet be told apart. You are in an unfinished stage and must endure the cold pool. One day your horns emerge and you leap the Dragon Gate, from the legend of the carp that becomes a dragon. The point is to build strength while unnoticed.

A thought to take with you

Keep building quietly while unnoticed, so that you can make the leap when it comes.

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