Analysis Into Zhang BingLing SanHe Methodology 2

Immediate External Water Method:

Ren Sitting, Bing Facing.

Water Placement (well) at Yin

Gold Division: Xin Hai, Xin Si

Gold Division: Ding Hai, Ding Si

Water direction: Right to Left, Ding – Bing – Xun (Exit)

Poem:

Yang Dwelling water mouth receiving at Ding, motion produce Authority at Imperial Stables. When the Master uses this formation, wealth and glory would be everlasting.

Criticism:

There is no sign of 12 growth stages included in the woodblock. Assuming this was the techniques, the objective is to obtain Officer, wealth and nobility, sitting Metal frame, Ding receiving Youth water, Bing activating Officer water and exits at Xun which is Prosperity, which is forbidden. Assuming it is a Earth Xue, receiving weakening water, activating sickness water and exiting at death. Possible, but not encourage able, as incoming could have been from prosperity. So, there is no consistency between the methods applied in the major external with the immediate external.

Alternatively, if we look at Earthly Principles Five Verses, exiting at Xun and Si are major 8 road of destruction, crash into officer palace, kills and making the owner to be a bankrupt, almost opposite from the intention of the poem.

Well location at Yin possible of activating the Sky Horse formation and in this case expediting inauspiciousness? A very possible choice, assuming it is in an auspicious formation. Therefore, how SanHe could it possibly is?

Immediate External:

Ren = FuWei

Gen = WuGui

Zhen (Door) = TianYi

Xun (Gate) = ShengQi

Li (Facing) = YanNien

Kun = JueMing

Dui = HuoHai

Qian = LiuSha

Poem:

The meandering path leading in the courtyard gate in the formation of the whip or the jade belt. It wrap and embraces YanNian and therefore invite authority, wealth and nobility. ShengQi and TianYi at door end of the path and generations will become officer of the 6 ministries…

Criticism:

This is a very novel proposal, using Eight Mansion to determine the pathway leading to the main door, alternatively from using this method as an internal FengShui. BaZhai as it is called has its root from Greater Wandering Gua method.

For a Ren Sitting House, we take as a Kan Gua House. Sitting FuWei, Facing YanNian. So, we assumed that the same natal chart shall also apply internally which in this case was silent. The novel idea at this juncture is the assumption that between Tian Di and Ren, it is the Ren factor that brings in Qi into the otherwise container (house) encapsulating Tian and Di. In this case, coming into the ShengQi (wood) gate into Tian Yi (earth) door will bring auspicious tidings. Elemental analysis speaking, the gate controls into the main door instead of growing into the main door may otherwise brings other portends. How could that be?

A space not confined by the 4 walls has no potential of containing Qi similarly with the heaven heart that is not enclosed. So, how could ShengQi be brought into the house?

Although Eight Mansions straddled between SanHe and SanYuan in a confused fundamental, it is SanYuan in nature for it does not harp on the notion of 12 growth. So the method employ by Zhang is inconsistent from the macro to the micro.

Conclusion:

Reading the preface and trying to put myself into Zhang BingLing’s shoe is very difficult especially when the ideas cannot gel itself into one single body of knowledge that is rooted on ZhangShu being the authoritative classics for the SanHe, instead of Huai NanZi which is a classics on astrology and I will have to make up the rest on an implied basis to make sense out of his idea so presented. So, I will not take these classics as worthy as it is claimed.

To all the readers, if you think otherwise, please let me know of your thoughts for a fruitful discussion on these subject matters.

Analysis Into Zhang BingLing SanHe Methodology

Investigating FengShui methodology is among others, a tricky exercise, especially when there is more then one method is employed. The pedigree of the master concerned speaks for itself usually from the journal he kept. In this instance, a ZhongHe practitioner Zhang BingLing has been introduced as a SanHe practitioner of whom this is quite misleading. Coming from the Fujian province, a stronghold of SanYuan, my opinion is that he was from a SanYuan pedigree instead. Therefore, it will only be natural to review his record in accordance to consistency and coherency of the idea he put forth and match against the scale of major external to micro internal based on a sampling of Ren sitting case study.

Major external:

The diagram indicates a landform of a Xue sitting Ren facing Bing. It was recorded as Ren in the centre of the Phoenix formation. Bing location is the table mountain in the goldfish formation. The green dragon denotes Tai Yi and white tiger Tian Yi. Shen is the exiting water mouth. Incoming Dragon from Gen. The tiger embrace should be lower to reach auspicious position at terminal, and should be hollow and not full.

Chan BingLing’s rationale:

Water obtains Yang Fire.
Gold Division: Xin Hai (Metal), Xin Si (Metal)
Gold Division: Ding Hai (Earth), Ding Si (Earth)

Poem: Ren Sitting faces towards the Xue. Gen is where the Ancestor Mountains are. Kan position has auspicious star formation same as Gen position. Incoming from Jia exiting at Shen, then generations of descendents will be noble, illustrious and flourishing.

Criticism:

If one notices, the gold division of choices limited to Ding, Bing, Xin and Geng does not base on the 72 Dragons rings. Therefore, it cannot base on YangGong methodology. If it is sitting Ren between Xin Hai and Ding Hai it will fall into the Emptiness line of the 72 Dragons. Therefore it is never a good choice from a YangGong perspective.

The water structure he employed is Fire frame of Yin Wu Xu, exiting at Shen being sickness. In the YangGong perspective he must choose a Xue which is also fire frame. However Ren sitting is not fire even if it is based on his preferred gold divisions which are either Metal or Earth. So, there is no consistency in terms of the 12 growth water matching the Xue Sitting and how can it be SanHe?

The robbery killing force is a typical 8 killing forces for SanYuan. In the case of sitting Kan, the 8 killing forces are from Chen and Xu, there is where he recommended the stove to be positioned. Kun is the early heaven 8 killing forces he termed as termination. Likewise, such methods are the SanYuan dragon gate 8 formations and not SanHe and definitely not YangGong method. YangGong old method does not recognise 8 killing forces, 8 road of destructions and other similar theory, of which were claimed to be re-engineered for the consumption of the Manchurians (read also http://uk.blog.360.yahoo.com/jamphal on information of the fallacy of 8 road of destructions).

To be continue…

To Classic Or Not To Classic

There have been noble attempts to reveal ancient woodblock classics into the mainstream English literature especially found in the era of Tang and Qing Dynasty. These are the two dynasties that are notorious in producing fake classics to misguide the general public or has been misguided to produce simplified method for the emperors own consumptions. It was during the Tang Dynasty that the Tang Emperor issued fake method for the barbarians (a term that was used to denote foreigners) with little idea that such screwed up method may find its way back to mainland China for the emperor’s descendents’ own use.

By heaven’s will, Grandmaster Yang JunSong packed his bag and ran off with classics from the Imperial library causing witch hunt all over middle kingdom, that his line of family would need to change their surname to others in disguise to escape the tyranny of the beheading blade. With his aide, Liu JiangDong and his two other disciples reside in part of GuangZhou now called Yang XianLing, Yang JunSong has to enter monkhood for posterity to start all over again his quest for real method of FengShui called the YangGong method, stem from the use of the 12 growth phases instead of BaGua PaiLong Fa or method of Eight Gua arranging of the dragons.

During the early Qing and the later Ming Dynasty, Grandmaster Jiang DaHong began to make his presence felt. He is not the inventor of SanYuan method. He is indoctrinated heavily by the Dao and naturally incubates a method close only to himself for fear of exposing Heaven’s will. In historical account, he had 6 known disciples who inherited part of his knowledge in fragments, causing later schisms among the school of XuanKong. His brushed commentary of DiLi BianZheng grouped in the collection of the Qing Dynasty four treasuries, is laden with cryptically worded that is not YangGong method at all.

It was at the reign of QianLong, that Chinese Metaphysics were given the second lease of lives. The emperor recruited masters among the Hans to teach the Manchurians the art of FengShui. With the dilemma of fear to impart such knowledge to the Manchu and the fear of potentially beheaded by the emperor for disseminating fake method, the Hans recreated theories based on half truth. It was these half truth theories that were believed to be ended up in these woodblock classics from the early QianLong period, now available in the English language. No doubt it is a classic by default, but the contents are very much disputable as it is neither genuine YangGong nor JiangGong method. Even with the original author, Zhang BingLing’s very own credentials are very much questionable.

The Geography Of ZhangShu

In geography, there are 3 dragons coming into China from west to the east, before branching into 5 branches namely Qian, Kun, Kan, Li and Dui. Thus the western side of China is always higher then the eastern side. If South is taken as the facing, we would end up having the white tiger higher then the green dragon. This is a geographical fact. It is also said that all veins has its origin from the KunLun Mountain.

KunLun range is at about 13,000 ft or higher at the region of the Tibetan Plateau, running along sides the Himalayas, branching out to Karin Basin, Gobi and Greater Khingan Range back dropping the Manchurian Plains, whereas the others bordering the great YangTze, Yellow and Xi Rivers. Apparently this is the source of all major rivers from Brahmaputra and the Chinese Great Rivers. Apparently only YangTze, Yellow and Xi Rivers flow down the fertilized SiChuan Plains before exiting to the North China Sea and Yellow Sea at the Eastern region of China and Brahmaputra turns into the region of Bhutan and Bangladesh.

At this juncture, can one identify where is the Qian, Kun, Kan, Li and Dui branches of the 3 dragons? Where is the Jia, Bing, Geng and Ren dragons marrying the Gui, Yi, Ding and Xin rivers?

Note: Image form GeoNova

Another YangGong Book Off The Shelf

Title: Qing Nang Ao Yu

Author: Prof. Yap Cheng Hai / Prof. Dr. Yang Kim Voon

Link: http://www.mqfengshuiacademy.com


Reflection:


It is timely that such an information on YangGong is made available in the English language, although I must admit that MoonChin has started the ball rolling via his maiden E-Book on the same subject, of which I had made a commentary review on it. The title Qing Nang Ao You (QNAY) is similar to the classics written by the Great Grandmaster Yang Jun Song, known as YangGong. However, this book should have been a commentary on QNAY and not QNAY per se, in accordance to Ganzhou Yue Che Tang perspectives. For this and in the written style of Chinese way of thinking in the English medium, I do not reckon any inputs or role that Prof Yap has included in this manuscript, for among others, Prof Yap is well known for his Eight Mansion techniques and not YangGong old method. On another view, it would have been an absolute “cut and paste” effort of the collectives of exchanges of views between Prof Yang with other experts via MoonChin, being at the time his most senior student, in the same subject via emails and forums that had once stormed the internet causing much excitement to the many especially in notion of mountain as Yang, water as Yin (also read http://fsrcenter.blogspot.com/2009/05/yin-and-yang-and-life.html for an antagonistic view). The way this book is written could have been professionally edited in the English language making it easier to read, rather then running about the bush. However, I must admit in terms of contents it is much more loaded as compared to the one written by MoonChin on the same subject. If the former is only surface deep, this is at least skin deep.


I would just highlight a few matters of interest as the followings, The 4 major water structures had its genesis with HeTu, rooted on the fact that Earth is the mother of Qi, Qi is the mother of water, in accordance to ZhangShu. So there are only 4 structures namely wood, water, metal and fire. Earth structure follows water structure. This is incoherent with the HeTu. In geography, there are 3 dragons coming into China from west to the east, before branching into 5 branches namely Qian, Kun, Kan, Li and Dui. Thus the western side of China is always higher then the eastern side. If South is taken as the facing, we would end up having the white tiger higher then the green dragon almost deviated from the known notion of FengShui that the green dragon must be higher then the white tiger positions in order to receive auspiciousness. This in my reflection this is fallacy number one.


As in HeTu, the incoming dragon takes a male role, therefore it is Yang. This dragon carries external Qi. Whereas, for every notable dragon, there must be a consort called water dragon. This water dragon is female in gender, Yin, carrying internal Qi. ZhangShu explicitly explained that to receive FengShui is to ride ShegQi. In another word, the objective of FengShui is to seat on the spot where internal Qi meet (marry or intercourses) external Qi, called a XuanKong phenomena, cannot be seen with its effect which can be felt. Almost, contradicting the usually assumed Mountain being static is Yin and water being dynamic is Yang. With this hypothesis, it has shaken many fundamentals of other school of thoughts on the same subject. This is in my reflection this is fallacy number two.


Next, out of the 5 dragons, there are only 4 visible ones called Bing, Jia, Ren and Geng, reflecting again the HeTu. Correspondently, there will be 4 female water dragon consorts reflecting, Yi, Gui, Xin and Ding. Care must be taken that these male and female must be matched accordingly. This brought the entire discussion into what constitute host and guest. The emphasis is to look at Bing dragon finds its consort as Yi water, Jia with its Gui consort, Ren with its Xin consort and Geng with Ding consort. This is what known as left and right turning. I would come to a conclusion that these theories is over laden to guide one into looking for the correct water exits, just in simple term. Yet with these explanation, in practice, one still have difficulty in locating the water exits without proper examples (also read http://www.harmony-living.blogspot.com/2009/01/cycling-with-dragon.html on searching for the water mouth). This is in my reflection this is fallacy number three.


I would reserve the rest of my reflections for some other times.


In summary, this is a good recommendation on the subject matter with its major setbacks of ease of legibility, poor graphics, minimal diagrammatic explanation, nonsensical and irrelevant references, repetitive passages and interstices of ideas in a fragmented ways. I would have expected better writtings in academic framework especially comming from the background of PhD, post PhD and Professorhood calibre. After reading it, I cannot help but to wonder with a sense of Deja-Vu, that the contents are derived wholesale stock load and barrel from another source by MoonChin or someone else. Again, I am looking forward to the next publications, if any and hopefully with improved editing and manuscript.

Encounter of The Third Kind, Again

Often then not, as a practitioner of KanYu, we may go into a house that is heavy in the Yin elements. Not to say that we want to be ghost buster, but inevitably, we may step into such twilight zone and yet we do not know what to do about it. We may suggest to the client that the house is too Yin or Yin spirits all over and may we recommend a ghost buster instead but that is not all. What if the entities decide to follow the FengShui master back causing sleepless night and unwarranted disturbances? This is the first case.

Next, as the economic situation worsen, suddenly we find ourselves surrounded by FengShui masters from the Mainland China and one happened to meet a friend of mine, soliciting that he is in bad shape and in needs of FengShui remedy, offering for free a piece of object called double coiled dragon BaGua as a token of affinity, to be hung above his main door. The subsequent days experienced the most horrifying events from multiple accidents and annoying illness ranging from skin problem to stomach discomfort. Having enough of such experience, I decided to ask this friend of mine to remove the object and be sent away for good. Next, for whatever reasons, he received news that the government services examination he sat, without much success, had him finally pass with distinction. This is the second case.

Last, another friend of mine has his house FengShui done by numerous masters before. One in particular came an offer his service for an exorbitant price, such as setting up of the altar fees were RM 10,000.00. The sum was paid and the service rendered. That is not enough. There is such thing called recurrent follow ups that needs around RM3,000.00 to be paid each time for a period of six month. When these fees were not paid, things begin to change from good to bad. Business affected family members’ passes away and wife suffered unwarranted slow effect illnesses. A close examination revealed that this master has installed an entity to disturb the peace in the family. This is the third case.

Except for the first case, who happened to be my teacher, both second and third case have had the matter resolved. The moral is we would very much liked to draw a distinct boundary between the work of a spiritual domain and the work of FengShui but often then not as practitioners we may be caught in the situation of both, first requiring us to protect ourselves and second, to administer help for the others. That is why, he who practices the arts is protected by the arts.

Another Moosti Spot?

My apology of not updating my blog as regularly as I wished, things have been catching up too drastically, thanks to the new arrival of JiaZi. Meanwhile my old pal from abroad has had a good time spent in the company of good souls both in Metaphysics and Dao. I hoped he can cope with both simultenously, knowing that the grids and the wedge have their homes in the center of the path or Dao and definitely not the center of the subject. Thus, as a gesture of warming up, I stumbled upon another moosti spot, which has been earmarked for something spectacular in a distance future. May I just ask what sort of name shall this spot be called? Crab formation or crap formation?

P/S: Hi David

Well I am back home after that great experience with you and the others.
I must thank you again for everything.
Apart from your unreserved sharing, i most appreciated all the time and experiences you
made me share with you and most appreciated everybody's company and talents.
Warmest Regards,