Zhuge Oracle Lesson 337

Oracle Text

All things are not for a person to scheme and reckon,
a whole life is, in the end, what fate arranges;
doubt not, and guess not—
what your lot holds, in time you'll surely have;
why drudge along, mixed in with the dust?
Let it rest!

Interpretation

Man proposes, Heaven disposes. In all things, nothing is worse than greed and extravagant craving.