Zhuge Oracle Lesson 344
Zhuge Oracle Lesson 344 “Three pecks and three piculs”: It teaches not to cut your foot to fit the shoe, and carries the sense that fullness invites loss.
From the complete 384-lesson Zhuge Shen Shu (Zhuge Oracle) system.
Oracle Text
Three pecks and three piculs
poured into a single peck-measure—
it fills, and overflows;
the rest you take for yourself.
Interpretation
It teaches not to cut your foot to fit the shoe, and carries the sense that fullness invites loss.