Lot 72 (Lower) from the Guanyin Oracle (观音灵签) draws on the allusion "Karmic Obstruction Dissolved" — Reciting sutras and calling the Buddha's name dissolves karmic obstruction; cultivating good deeds brings blessings. Sincere practice is the path to liberation.
Lot 72
LowerPoem
Pig year brings troubles; the heart is unsettled
Nothing goes smoothly; clouds of doubt are heavy
Still your heart, recite sutras, dissolve karmic obstruction
Guanyin's compassion comes to protect
Yèzhàng Xiāochú
Historical Allusion
Karmic Obstruction Dissolved
Reciting sutras and calling the Buddha's name dissolves karmic obstruction; cultivating good deeds brings blessings. Sincere practice is the path to liberation.
General Guidance
A lower lot. Karmic obstructions bind you and nothing goes smoothly. Recite sutras, call the Buddha's name, and widely do good deeds — Guanyin Bodhisattva will protect you.
General Guidance
Career
Karma affects work; sincere practice will improve things.
Love
Karmic obstruction in love; cultivation will dissolve it.
Health
Karmic illness; seek both medicine and practice.
Wealth
Financial luck weighed down by karma; do widespread good deeds.
Travel
Karma affects travel; be cautious.
Litigation
Karmic lawsuit; dissolve it with sincere devotion.
- Tradition
- Guanyin 100 Oracle (观音灵签 / 观音一百签) — a traditional divination practice at Guanyin temples across East Asia, drawing on classical Chinese allusions (典故) as reflective mirrors.
- Source
- Follows the widely circulated 100-lot text commonly printed at Chinese and Taiwanese Guanyin temples. No single canonical edition exists; minor wording variations occur across temple printings.
- Translation
- Chinese preserves traditional phrasing. English renderings are Cihang's adaptations for bilingual devotional reading, not scholarly translations.
- Note
- Reflection, not prediction. The oracle invites contemplation of the lot's historical allusion as a mirror for your present circumstances; it does not claim divinatory certainty.
- Last reviewed