Saturday, September 13, 2008

4 Good Versus The 4 Bad, East Versus West


It will be ridiculous to even think that there will be 4 bad sectors and 4 good sectors for a house. If one is living in a mansion, then the 4 bad sectors would have been easily avoidable. What if it was a case of a small apartment unit? Does it mean that the other 4 sectors will be unusable? Worst, if the notion of the 4 eastern GUA cannot match the 4 western GUA. How ridiculous such a theory can be? Imagine, what will one sees when one travels west and beyond? Will one come back to the East? So, how could west remain as west and east remain as east?

The Early and Later Heaven application has been force fitted to explain a theory in such a morbid fashion. It will be even more horrifying to note that the East and West dichotomy is due to the interaction of the 5 elements. Have any genuine theory of Chinese Metaphysics say that water and fire clash each other? If that is the case, what is the Green Satchel Classics for? Would that make any significant for the authoritative classic of 8 mansions called 8 Mansions Bright Mirror (Bazhai Ming Jing) to be relevant?

Early heaven is principle, later heaven is application. What does this really mean? Can LiuSha, WuGui, JueMing and HuoHai be auspicious? Can a husband and wife of different east and west group share the same bed use the same entrance, eat at the same table? How about the pet in the house? Before we continue bluffing ourselves with 8 mansions, why wouldn’t we revisit the fundamental? Just the fundamental.

Heaven and Earth fixed position. Which is heaven which is earth? What is the vessel, where is the Qi? Mountain and marsh connect Qi. Where is the mountain, where is the marsh? How to connect Qi? Thunder Wind mutually close. Where is the thunder and where is the wind? What has been close and what has been opened? Water and Fire not shoot each other. Which are the fire and which the water is? Why these elements don’t shoot each other? If one understands this, one will understand that there is no dichotomy of the east and the west, good and the bad. We will understand 8 mansions in another perspective. Unfortunately, we simply don’t even understand what ShengQi is and we start talking about others!

Also, seek the applications as the followings: -
Carries trunk, Kun earth,
Downward shining, Qián arranges.
Seven governors, pivot workings,
Circulate, finish, begin.
Earthly virtue, upwards convey,
Heavenly lights, downwards preside.
Yin applies, Yáng faces,
Yáng applies, Yin responds.
Yin Yáng, mutually meet,
Fortune, prosperity, ever pure.
Yin Yáng, together harness,
Misfortune, disaster follows gate.

Knowing these, all the new age theories dotting the internet will be crap and a shear display of mockery and fallacy, to reinvent an ancient theory based on modern interpretation. The current notion of east and west houses are a shear fallacy and any further discussion based on such false interpretation would be disaster resulting in breaking up of families, useless renovations, unnecessary fears, getting rich schemes, more advance Bazhai classes, 8 mansions for wealth, getting rich with 8 mansions, more books to the resume and endless forum entries such as what if the flying star chart do not conform to the 8 mansion chart?

So the next time, when such a question of this sort was put forward, such theory was discussed further, just take a seat back and laugh for one knows it is not true. Perhaps even the Green Satchel wasn’t true?

Ar. David Yek Tak Wai

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi David,

Your blog is named Yi Feng Shui and from this I presume you are very learned in the studies of "Yi". From your blog entry "4 Good Versus The 4 Bad, East Versus West", it seems like you do not believe in the fundamental theory of East vs West house concept of Bazhai. As what Bayu Zhai had said about Taiji, I go on to say that everything stems from Taiji and its division into Yin and Yang. Similarly in Bazhai, if there are 4 good sectors, there will be 4 bad sectors to complement it, just like Yin and Yang, to maintain the balance. A famous master once commented that after many years of studies and practice in feng
shui, he finally realised that everything in the universe is about Yin and Yang. He said that if he had realised this much earlier, he would not have wasted so many years of his life circling around the theories of feng shui trying to find answers.

Therefore I would advise you to do more research and have an open
inquisitive mind to explore the fascinating and mysterious world of Chinese Metaphysics rather than just studying ancient classics. You will be surprised how much you still do not know or understand.

Finally, you have asked a lot of questions in your post and I hope to answer some of them basic ones here. I am not sure how much you know about Bazhai fengshui but just to let you know that Bazhai is not just about 4 East and 4 West houses.

Q: Can LiuSha, WuGui, JueMing and HuoHai be auspicious?
A: Yes, if you know how to utilise them properly.

Q: Can a husband and wife of different east and west group share the same bed use the same entrance, eat at the same table?
A: Yes, if you know the technique to complement them.

Q: What if the flying star chart do not conform to the 8 mansion
chart?
A: You need to know under what conditions you should apply flying star or 8 mansions. It does not mean all fengshui formula are applicable at
the same time.

Cyril Quah

DAVID YEK TAK WAI (email:yektakwai@hotmail.com) said...

Hi Cyrill,

Thanks for your comments. I would have expected your answers to the basic questions. Apparently you have decided to mave away from the difficult ones. It is true that we must have an open inquisitive mind. However, the apparent danger is that we often fossilized out mindset to a certain directions, popular in nature, but not necessary in reflective of the truth. Similarly to say a popular fengshui master may not necessary be a good one...

Cheers.

Anonymous said...

Hi David,

What are the difficult questions? Sorry I could not pick out your difficult questions; maybe your writing style is quite difficult for me to follow or maybe my English is no good because I am used to simple English. As for your English translation of the classics, can you post in Chinese? It is difficult for me to understand them in English; the essence could be lost in the translation. Thanks.

DAVID YEK TAK WAI (email:yektakwai@hotmail.com) said...

Hi Cyril,

It is the part of the verses in the Qing Nan Jing. The chinese version could be easily obtainable.

Cheers

Anonymous said...

What has Qing Nan Jing got to do with Bazhai Ming Jing? Why are you mixing them up and confuse yourself?

DAVID YEK TAK WAI (email:yektakwai@hotmail.com) said...

Hi Cyrill,

You have been an ardent follower for this topic. Of such I think I need to clarify as what I would meant by : "...that make any significant for the authoritative classic of 8 mansions called 8 Mansions Bright Mirror (Bazhai Ming Jing) to be relevant?".

Liked any classics, the principles had to be consistent. Qing Nan Jing and Bazhai Ming Jing are entirely different books. One came after the other. These all of us knew. However, if we were to read BZMJ devoid of the understanding of QNJ it would be grossly misunderstood. There is where the entire east and west dichotomy becomes grossly misunderstood.

These are what I termed fossilized of the morbid concepts that had resulted in various interpretations that we are so feared of. In fact, I don't even want to dwell more on 8 mansions knowing well where its source were.

Cyrill, have you also move on? Also thanks for highlighting, I believe I am still sober of the facts at hand in the confuse state of our metaphysical realm we are in.

On another note, I too had been following closely to your blogs and found most of the article note worthy especially on the XKLF. Would had been better if you could laced the 6 principles up with what you may have think of them to be?

Cheers

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