Kuan Yin Lottery, Lot 1: Zhongli Achieves Immortality 锺离成道

Kuan Yin Lottery, Lot 1: Zhongli Achieves Immortality

Zi (Rat) Palace, Auspicious Lot

Verse:
Heaven and earth opened to form a good fate,
On an auspicious day and hour, all things are complete.
If you obtain this lot, it is no trivial matter,
A person who acts with loyalty and righteousness will be proclaimed by the emperor.

Lot Message:
This hexagram is like the image of Pan Gu separating heaven and earth at the beginning of time. All matters will be auspicious.

Explanation of the Lot:
Swift omens, swift signs; the year has not yet reached the right time. Guanyin writes with her brush, first to inform you.

Divine Guidance:

Story: Zhongli Achieves Immortality
A man of the Eastern Han Dynasty, surnamed Zhongli, named Quan, styled Yunfang, also known as Zhengyang.
He was from Xianyang County, Xi'an, Shaanxi. He served as a general in the Han army, and every time he went to war, he was the vanguard and was fond of killing.
By the age of fifty, he had killed more than 300,000 people. When he campaigned north against the Tubo,
he sent 20,000 troops, all of whom were weak soldiers. They were defeated and scattered.
He fled alone on horseback to a mountain valley, where he met a foreign monk who led him into a cave (Ningyang Cave in Zhongnan Mountain).
There, he realized the honors and disgraces, gains and losses in life. Later, he resigned from office to practice Taoism.
He received the immortal method from Donghua Emperor, then secluded himself in Yangjiao Mountain, Jinzhou.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he was repeatedly invited with courtesy but refused to emerge. Whenever the court had major affairs,
they often went to consult him, and he was known as "the prime minister in the mountains".
He was the teacher of Lü Dongbin, the leader of the Eight Immortals,
and the founding ancestor of the Zhengyang School, honored as Zhengyang Emperor.