Perception Of The BaGua

We are familiar with BaGua, HeLuo and the interaction of Qi in a 2 dimensional perspective. What happened when in fact Qi is 3 Dimensional? Stacking above one another? As a simple illustration (not true fact), these imagery can be well illustrated as a cube in horizontal and vertical interlocking sequence. That is where the path of right and left turning originates as oscillation. A single unit of BaGua can then be further expended to the 64 Gua. To the DaGua enthusiasts, how does one apply DaGua when we have no room to arrange the BaGua? Food for thought!

On another note, the TaiQi spot or the heavenly heart is deemed as important as it gels the rest of the “cubes” together. As the saying goes, when the heavenly heart activates, 9 palaces alter. Do we constantly need to activate it with the placement of fountain at the center?

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TaiQi - Left Turn Right Turn

Which TaiQi belongs to the Yi of Dao and the Yi of Qi? When one turns left, the other turns right. Left turning is Yin? Right turning is Yang? Mountain is Yin? Water is Yang? Another manifestation of 扭轉乾坤?

Turning The Qian To The Kun - 扭轉乾坤

Sometime back, when I wrote an article musing about 扭轉乾坤 as in the Nebulously Confused Qi and its postscript, never had I imagined that as the number one principle of 一切随缘 (affinity), which is one of the many principles of  中天卦 (middle heaven gua). The idea is best represented as the loop within loop from the external as early heaven to middle heaven and narrow down to later heaven. There are two distinct middle heaven BaGua(s). Because the nature of this write up is about Kun taking over Qian as in 扭轉乾坤. Application wise will be reserved upon request.

Shut Up! I Am Thinking

An anonymous drops me a note commenting the followings: -

“According to him (the marketer), his teacher is one of the best in BaZi, FengShui and QMDJ. I wonder why he still face a short term jail, didn’t the teacher able to see it and avoid it or something else? Strange! Need to ponder…”

It was a thought provoking comment. Perhaps an interstice between the marketer and his teacher. Such thought provoking has been translated into the recent entry of the marketer’s blog about BaZi and FengShui in a rather rhetorical fallacy which this write up is intended to debunk.

BaZi is the yard stick of a capacity of every person which includes a destiny road map. FengShui, on the other hand, is a mean to expedite opportunities and to avoid pitfalls. These fundamental understandings are not found in the marketer’s blog nor are in possession by his teacher. The above thought provoking comment rings a bell and a true testimony of such. There is nothing metaphysical about it – as it is just plain truth. It is also a display of whimsical superstitions that were propagated by such school as it once suggested that to avoid the ordeal of FanFu Yin, the marketer duly slept in the coffin and spilled cash out of it. Yet, his ordeals never cease but continue. These are facts of the sort of BaZi knowledge his teacher and him possessed. Do you still wish to sign up?

BaZi and KanYu had their cradles in the Chinese soil – this is a fact. Thanks to a charismatic lady, which we often called Big Sister, it has reached the Western audience. If one feels chic by calling these arts in another name such as Mc FengShui as to re-brand it with international labels, so be it. However, we just don’t know that such an art has to be marketed so lowly as to change name plainly to make money out of the international students. As the operative term used in the blog, “affordability”, clearly demonstrated the plain intentions of profiteering and not for the love of the arts.

It is also strange that the definition is sought after as to the meaning of Metaphysics when the physics aspect of such as to which part of Heavens do one measure is still in confusion. Crapping on the intricacies of BaZi, where the differences between structural and imagery readings are still unknown is, among others, the hallmark of such a school. Yet it introduces other needs for the “3rd Eye” just to see beyond the 8 characters, which is termed “Meta” as in metaphysics. The very “meta” is the commodity of the school which continues to milk the otherwise, international students. It is a shame that such a beautiful art has been transformed into Shamanism. 

Master worshipping is never the cup of tea for a true practitioner neither is the ethic of a genuine philosopher. When one understand the significant of the useful gods, understand which Heaven one measures and know how YinYang is balanced, the only master exist are the your ancestors who had once walked the earth of the middle kingdom. Do you still need to rebrand Chinese Metaphysics?

A Trip Down Memorable Penang

A short trip to Penang, notably staying around the area of Gurney Drive, observed the mushrooming of the property markets and it is NOT due to the effect of the 4 heraldic beast land formations such as the Green Dragon, White Tiger, Black Warrior and Red Pheonix. These concepts had been long bastardized by modern age guru either to sell their figurines or simply to make things sounds complicated. If it is true that such a feature is important, a glance through my hotel window should at least witnessed the so called, red phoenix but where has it gone to? 9 layers of heavens? These very notions which were originated from the ancient astronomy of the 4 enclosures had been very misleading while I remember reading somewhere from Master Eva Wong, as she proposed that it is entirely misleading to take the White Tiger as the right with reference to the tomb and a living abode to be the same, had created another wave of confusions into the otherwise murky subject. 

Another subject of confusion is the phrase, water governs wealth, mountain governs health, and thus it is good to have the sea in front of the property and mountain at the back, what more if the mountain is Penang Hill! Go check around and see if all the successful and wealthy pioneers liked the Khoo families has their ancestral temple located facing the open sea. If it is not, perhaps such phrase needs to be thought over as it simply does not fit the true context in applications. 

Other fables such as the pearl of the orient is indeed a turtle with its back “stuck” to a needle, in the form of the “cursed” KOMTAR tower. When such is a masterpiece of our beloved Architectural pioneer Datuk Seri Lim, it is again being painted rather ugly by the new age master as the culprit that leads to the dormant economic progress of the state and ultimately spelt disaster for BN. KL has its twin towers, Dubai has its Burj and Taiwan has its 101 tower. What has gone so very wrong with Komtar? The answer is in the land formation and definitely not the 4 heraldic beasts! There is this much to say about Penang PGCC, another architectural icon from Asymptote which hasn’t seen the lights at the end of the tunnel. Would it be another Komtar, when mountain see mountain? Or, another needles to pin down the otherwise prosperous turtle?

Amusingly, when one sees Penang as a turtle, another sees it as a Tiger, crouching tiger! Perhaps it is due to the Tiger year, that the turtle disguise itself as a tiger. Wonder if the world of Mc Fongshui would make it as its top seller figurines? That will be another tales. The ancient master liked figurative writing with emphasis form over substance. Surprisingly modern master also liked form over substance and that is where the problems arise when it is taken by the lay person as the truth, liked the pinned turtle. Again, the answer is within the veins. 

Such fables are rather amusing to some and pain to others. Another dose, please take it with a huge pinch of salt of what ever said by these co called new age masters.

Note: Photo Credit - LesChang, FotoKrazy.com, Asymptote - PGCC

Suck’in Qi

Another landform goodie bag techniques which enable Qi to be drawn into the premises. However, care must first be taken as, if the YinYang is imbalance to begin with, what sort of Qi will be drawn in, in the first instance? In my short TRIP to Penang just a week ago, a very famous Burmese Temple has such a feature with funneling terraces that draws Qi from the external bright hall, rendering the immediate bright hall rather useless. But the trick is not just this funnel. Sequences of spaces are required to balance out its YinYang polarity, thus making the ingress of Qi to be sentimental. Think about it…

Interstices Metaphysical

Strange, while I heard that a notable master is leaving his practices after barely a year in set up and garnered much fame and attention through the style of self imposed professional ethics and result warranty, just liked the FengShui “families”, I also read about a self confessions of the marketer of Chinese Metaphysics of his traumatic experiences in the academy in town. Thus, these two separate events kept me wonder, if the art of BaZi can indeed be used to present informed decisions of compatibility otherwise, why start off a venture when we knew the outcome is of such a short lived experiences? Perhaps it is worthy? That I ought to learn and perhaps I am learning. 

Coincidently also, while I was cleaning away some of my Folios, a compendium of fragmented ideas in my student years entitled INTERSTICES, it comes to mind of this very seldom used word – interstices, of which it means as from Wikitionary, it states: -

"A small opening or space between objects, especially adjacent objects or objects set closely together, as between cords in a rope or components of a multiconductor electrical cable or between atoms in a crystal."

Perhaps it is this in between spaces that we called interstices, opens another opportunity for water to return to its source. That I leave it for all to interpret…