Zhuge Oracle Lesson 348

Oracle Text

Clouds lie across the mountains' edge, the waters vast and dim,
a thousand-mile-long road, you gaze toward your home village;
when hardship and trouble come, do not nurse resentment—
leaning on the gate in sorrow, you stand in the slanting sun.

Interpretation

Hardship has come upon you and can't be cleared for a time; melancholy is unavoidable, but resentment is needless.