The celebrated poem of XuanKong 玄空四经 comes in 4 components as the following: - 1. Purple White Script (紫白诀) 2. Ode to Mysticism (玄机赋) 3. Ode to Flying Stars (飞星赋) 4. Secrets of XuanKong (玄空秘旨) In the market, Hung HinCheong has written a series of marvelous translation on these 4 classics. The notable gist of these translations was the appended commentaries that is the summarized commentaries from the various Chinese sources available, especially in the lens of Shen’s Flying Star JuRen 沈竹礽飞星. Therefore, it has to be taken as a mass market knowledge for consumption. Who Wrote These Stuffs? Secrets of XuanKong 玄空秘旨 and Ode to Mysticism 玄机赋 are claimed to have been authored by Wu JingLuan 吴景峦, a legendary Song Dynasty FengShui Master who had given up his imperial career to be a Daoist recluse in BaiYun Shan 白云山. During the Ming Dynasty, Chinese scholar by the name Xu ShanJi has accidentally chanced upon such manuscripts that was said to have been disappeared for 500 years. The manuscripts are cryptic and heavily infused with Daoist undertone. What is available today are probably fragments of the complete picture that is so conveniently bound up as Secrets of XuanKong 玄空秘旨 and Ode to Mysticism 玄机赋 thus, it should not have been taken as a complete textbook. In fact, it should not even be taken as a textbook on XuanKong 玄空. To understand its content, the personality and background of Wu JingLuan 吴景峦, has to be first understood. It is believed that he had inherited the arts from the legendary HuaShan 华山 Daoist Master, ChenTuan 陳摶. This master was an adept in the practice of Daoist inner alchemy and as well as often practicing sleeping meditation and was known as the "Sleeping Immortal." In his sleep, it was claimed that he has been instructed by immortal in the subject of Yi and numerology. Having said such, Wu JingLuan 吴景峦 has been brought up as a YiJing Daoist metaphysic expert. Upon leaving HuaShan 华山, Wu JingLuan 吴景峦 has been forewarned by ChenTuan 陳摶 that he must not come close to accept the imperial post as that will bring misfortune to himself. Yet, caught in the dilemma of being filial, he has no choice but to serve the emperor. Wu JingLuan 吴景峦 was appointed to the court of the Emperor RenZhong as a YinYang master and was quickly caught up in the embroiling court politics, where a 100 school of thoughts fighting against one another to gain favor from the emperor. Being a YiJing master himself, it is quite surprising that he has not able to come to term with his fate and was finally rounded up in prison only to be released by Emperor HuiZhong. Frustrated and broken, he left the glamorous life in the imperial court for a secluded life as a hermit. He pondered upon his fate and started putting his thought into poems that is intricately laden with metaphysics, numerology, Daoist philosophy and the sort. Afraid of retribution, he faithfully upheld the notion of Heaven’s will shall not be disclosed. Why Is It Related to XuanKong? On the same page, Wu JingLuan 吴景峦 manuscripts had only been circulated among the Daoist circle and not to the outsider. Apparently it was believed that WuJi DaoRen 無极道人, having being in the Daoist circle had passed on the knowledge to Jiang DaHung 蔣大鴻, the forefather of XuanKong 玄空. Jiang DaHung has also chosen the same path of a Daoist recluse upholding the principle of the will of Heaven shall not be disclosed. Jiang DaHung 蔣大鴻 has not been very well received as genuine lineage holder or a scholar, by some quarters, and he is probably known to have been a Daoist magician well versed in the art of Daoist. His greatest work would have been DiLi BianZhen 地理辨正, being his commentaries of other great masters’ manuscripts, before him. It is "great" largely due to its inclusion into the Emperor QianLong’s SiKu QuanShu 四库全书. Besides that, he was said to have been “butchering” FengShui classics before his time to suit his understanding and interpretation. He is thought to have modified LongShui Jing 龙水经 into ShuiLong Jing 水龙经. LongShui Jing 龙水经 is the former title for QingNan Xu 青囊序, authored by Zheng WenCang 曾文辿. This classic was renamed when it is included in the DiLi BianZhen 地理辨正. The greatest different is the missing chapters called Xiao XuanKong 小玄空. It is believed that he coined 大玄空 from here. It is said to have contained the methods of measurement with the LuoPan. Xiao XuanKong 小玄空 has been withheld as an annex to SanHe FengShui, a forerunner of SanYuan. Therefore, not everything compiled in the Qing Dynasty is necessary genuine stuff. Much of the true and genuine transmissions are withheld by the Han, never to be disclosed to the Manchu. Worse, Jiang DaHung 蔣大鴻 made it so easily to mutilate true genuine classics into his very version of DiLi BianZhen 地理辨正. It is clained that part of the knowledge of Wu JingLuan 吴景峦 has been embodied within a new lineage of Jiang DaHung 蔣大鴻, through its offspring of 6 disciples, thus the 6 schools of XuanKong namely:-
Out of the 6 schools, only 2 survives while the rest faded into oblivion. The surviving schools are WuChang Pai 無常派, founded by Zhang ZhongShan 章仲山, based greatly on the application of Purple White Script 紫白诀 and ShangYu Pai 上虞派, founded by Zhang Xin-Yin 張心言, based greatly on the application of Yi Gua Pai 易卦派. Both schools may have shared the same root but the applications differed greatly. Needless to say, they too commented greatly of the 4 celebrated poem of XuanKong 玄空四经 as their textbooks. How Has Its Form Survived Today? Shen JuRen 沈竹礽 has been instrumental in popularizing FlyingStar 飞星 through his writing that many followers picked up in the 1900. So, comparatively, it is a very young school. Contemporary to that Tang YangWu 谈养吾 and Kong ZhaoShu 孔昭苏 all singled out Zhang ZhongShan 章仲山 WuChang Pai 無常派 to be the genuine transmission of XuanKong. The FlyingStar 飞星 boom has ignited modern writer to explain the celebrated poem of XuanKong 玄空四经 in accordance to the lens of FlyingStar and created a cult following in HongKong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. Currently it has also plagued the western world. That is also the reason some western students are taught to cure all the stars raging from using Dry to Raw Calabash, Metal Calabash and so forth. Not enough, they were also taught to move these cures from one place to another, even to the extend with sleeping and wearing calabashes. Such is the state of confusion among modern practitioners. What Is The Issue With Flying Star? Foremost is the question of pedigree. Neither Shen JuRen 沈竹礽 nor Tang YangWu 谈养吾 are considered to be of the inner circle or the family of Zhang ZhongShan 章仲山. Shen JuRen 沈竹礽 paid heftily to Zhang's family to hand copy Zhang's case journal. Tang YangWu 谈养吾 has to learnt from a distant relative related to the Zhang's family, only later to abandoned it in favor of XuanKong LiuFa 六法. Second it is the problem with interpretation. There are plenty of missing puzzles that Shen JuRen 沈竹礽 would have to make up for. When you discern Purple White Script (紫白诀) there are upper and lower scroll. The upper scroll laid down the fundamental principles and the lower scroll prescribed on its application. Without the key of understanding, it is believed that Sheng finds it difficult to decipher the meanings within the upper scroll such as:
He is believed to have discard the upper scroll while retain the lower scroll to formulate his methodology based on the fundamental of Later Heaven Numerology matching Later Heaven BaGua as in chart "A". He further devise a method based upon sitting and facing with the Period Star as its point of departure.
In a nutshell, the failure to decipher, Using the Map Luck as the body, Using the Map to explore the Book, 然以圖之運論體、有時圖可以參書、all hell break loose. There is no longer synchronicity between Zhang ZhongShan's method with the Huge SanYuan that is fundamentally grounded on the BaGua as shown in "B". Yet, not many people actually look at Kong ZhaoSu 孔昭苏 school of thought for an alternative. Kong ZhaoSu 孔昭苏 proposes a totally different approach in applying this:
The key is that Kong ZhaoSu 孔昭苏 Growth prosperous methodology 生旺诀 differ extensively compared to Sheng's. Where Do We Go From Here?The celebrated poem of XuanKong 玄空四经 were written with a SanYuan FengShui undertones, concealed as a Flying Star classic. It is not Flying Star, BaZhai or XuanKong DaGua per se. It is purely SanYuan. So, misinterpretations are very common. There is really no rush about dwelling in theoretical FengShui such as these when the fundamental is missing. Ultimately, it is the fundamental that is working and while we can argued till the cow goes home, we learnt very little of how to receive ShengQi. Secrets of XuanKong (玄空秘旨) states
Ultimately, Secrets of XuanKong (玄空秘旨) only concerns with the divination as it states:
Question: Do you know why the establishment of Heavenly Heart is so important? Here is your Quiz: For those who is practicing FlyingStar, the BaGua (8 Trigrams) "A" is the fundamental. The Later Heaven Numerology matching Later Heaven BaGua. While for those who is practicing YiGua or DaGua or BaZhai, the BaGua "B" is the fundamental. Early Heaven Numerology matching Later Heaven BaGua. Question: Which one manifest the true application of SanYuan and why? A note to my friend, the Chinese masters do not simply or however pluck things from thin air and start to create something out of nothing to confuse people. There are reasons and only the one who knows will know how to connect the dots. Credits: Translation to the 4 Poems of XuanKong is taken from the highly recommended book by Hung HinCheong, now available in Amazon.com.
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Apparently some claimed that the following YinYang, as available in most Chinese medium books, are wrong: -
It seems that whoever has the answer to these 4 items knows the true teaching of Grand-master Yang 楊筠松. I quote, "都天大卦总阴阳,玩水观水有主张,能知山情与水意,配合方可论阴阳。DaoTian DaGua (Celestial City Huge Hexagram) is always about Yin and Yang, it is how it analyzes the water. To understand the affection and meaning of the mountain and water, matching the directions using YinYang. Do you know the relation between Yin Yang and 山情与水意 (passionate mountain with desirous water)?" I quote again, "有乙辛丁癸之妇,宜配甲庚丙壬之夫,夫夫妇妇,雌雄牝牡。The reason why there is Yi, Xin, Ding, Gui as wives to match Jia, Geng, Bing, Ren as husbands. The husbands and wives, male and female. Do you know why they are considered husband and wife?" Again, I quote, "甲庚丙壬是阳位。乙辛丁癸是阴位。Do you know what is the rest for 乾坤艮巽 and 寅申巳亥? Why Grand-master Yang 楊筠松 only specify 8? ". These questions may look simple but the explanation are lengthy... I attempt to answer some. Commentary: 都天大卦 DaoTian DaGua (Celestial City Huge Hexagram) is the system of Hexagram based on the celestial stars that in ancient time were classified liked an imperial city with the ZiWei or the purple star enclosure as the King's chamber. Not sure what I am talking about, read HERE. Therefore, it is important to understand which part of the Heaven you are measuring if you use XKDG techniques. It divides the Heaven into YinYang. As above, so below - above has stars, below has mountains. Mountains are formed by the "pull" of the stars and as it displaces, rivers are formed. Yin is born out of Yang. The celestial stars are stationary. They are Yin. The nearest celestial bodies that "moves" like the Sun and the Moon are Yang. These are the 7 governors that influence waves (did I say NaYin?) on earth and thus governs water. Qi is the mother of water. Mountain and water is itself YinYang. The entire LienShan 连山 talks about mountain being Yang in appearance, Yin in qualities, while the entire GuiChang 归藏 talks about water being Yin in appearance, Yang in qualities. If you look at Gen Gua 艮 ☶ representing mountain, it has more Yin Yao but it takes the gender of Yang. A closer look at Gui Gua 兌 ☱ representing river, it has more Yang Yao but it takes the gender of Yin. To understand the affection and meaning of the mountain and water 山情与水意, there are 2 aspects to look at. In form, the sentimental flow of water 意 and the nobility of the mountains 情 are the affectionate mountain embracing the water. In formula, mountain and water 山情与水意 matching the directions using YinYang. The key is direction, referring to facing and location, referring to sitting. That is where the understanding of YinYang 24 mountains become crucial. Can FengShui works without the formula but just with forms? My take is - YES! 夫夫妇妇 Husband and Wife is all talking about - formation. Without the formation, there is no 都天大卦 DaoTian DaGua (Celestial City Huge Hexagram). The physical or form aspect, if you don't know read HERE! The formula aspect Dragon is always referring to the male and therefore Yang while the rivers are Yin therefore female. Here is where the normal SanHe and SanYuan clashes, just by this simple and innocent question, "Which is more important, Incoming or Outgoing Qi?" SanYuan school will just look for the incoming Qi and tap into it 旺. SanHe school will just look into the outgoing Qi 衰 and tap into whatever that is leftover. Such understanding is terribly wrong! Both schools reckoned that in order to know the incoming Qi 旺, you have to identify the outgoing Qi 衰. Furthermore, it is the concubines that arrive first before the emperor. Therefore, formation becomes important. In the absent of forms, 有乙辛丁癸之妇,宜配甲庚丙壬之夫,are the premise of the HeTu where 甲庚丙壬 are the Yang and 乙辛丁癸 are the Yin. When they come together it is where the 4 formations are born. Based on this premise alone, YangGong 楊筠松 derived its own "BaGua" and set the tone using the idea of the 12 growth phases that is entirely different from the set based on Real Yin Real Yang principle. If you again, cannot understand what Real Yin Real Yang are, read HERE! YangGong 楊筠松 only specify 8 for a reason that there are only 4 structures with its YinYang pairs. He also specify stems for the same reason of HeTu Qi. By now you would have realized that the 12 growth phases applied to SanHe 4 formations differ greatly from the 12 growth phases applied to Real Yin Real Yang principle 真阴真阳. It is for an undisclosed reason as to why it has to be liked that. The answer is that YangGong 楊筠松 is using HeTu to be his basis. Ironically, most SanHe LuoPan 24 mountain rings are based on Real Yin Real Yang principle 真阴真阳. That is why for a true YangGong practitioner, the YinYang 24 mountain rings are different! If you care to chart out all the possible frames you will also get the answer for the rest of the 16 mountains. Knowing this is nothing great, if you don't know how to apply it. In fact it is there in Hung HinCheong's book. Click HERE if you want to know. Yet, many still comfortably uses 12 growth phases applied to Real Yin Real Yang principle 真阴真阳 in BaZi reading? In fact, the entire Ru DiYan (入地眼) is based on this Real Yin Real Yang principle 真阴真阳 YinYang 24 mountain rings and it is also the forerunner of our modern day XuanKong DaGua! SanYuan, in the beginning do not even have the 24 mountains ring. It was adopted much later and its YinYang are entirely different from what we could see today with its Tian YuanLong, Di YuanLong and Ren YuanLong. It has its origin from the SanHe's Human Plate. This is talking about the Huge SanYuan 大三元 embraces all the sub schools of 8 mansions and DaGua 大卦, not to mention QianKun GuoBao (乾坤國寶) or LongMen BaJu (龍門八局). There are many masters who are not aware about that the Huge SanYuan 大三元 YinYang. All they know and were teaching is how to fly the Flying Star forward backward based on the SanYuan 24 mountains ring's YinYang and it is exactly what has been taught based on the popular Shen's XuanKong Flying star method. Trust me, most of them is still believing it is the only way to do SanYuan. All SanYuan formulas fall within this structure of YinYang. It shows to say that the YinYang threshold are within the "cross" 十道 and further splits into Old/Young YinYang right up to the 64 hexagram. It fits perfectly well with YangGong 楊筠松 "BaGua" with its basis in HeTu. Therefore its emphasis is on GuaQi or HeTu Qi and it became the fundamental tenets for eight mansions. 一六行龍四九去,三八入脈二七向;1-6 moving dragon 4-9 exiting, 3-8 incoming veins 2-7 facing and this is how the YinYang threshold of 8 mansions are derived from. 三元大卦要訣
SanYuan 三元 is one of the system of keeping track of an event occur in the space-time continuum 時空. The term 元 implied space-time continuum 時空. The notion of 三 implied upper, middle and lower - the trilogy of early, later and middle Heavens (past, current and future events). Each of the 元 has its own layers. In simple term, 三元 is a space craft travels in the space time continuum. As SanYuan developed on its very own in conjunction with the existence of the early calendric systems, it has borrowed many existing knowledge notably the idea of Li, Qi and Xiang 理气象. Li 理 specify its method, Qi 氣 adopting its five elemental 五行 units as 甲子 and Xiang 象 encoding of both into a system of Gua 卦 binary. SanYuan Method works in a rotation or spirals. A continuum spiraling space-time has no gap in between that is why it is continuum. In reality, SanYuan operates beyond our 3D existence. However, due to the limited crude technology available to our forefathers, space 空 has been compressed into 2D space fondly known today as the 9 palaces grid 九宮. This became the hall mark of SanYuan. When Time 時 is induced within the 9 palaces, it takes the form as JiaZi 甲子. Technically space-time in SanYuan is measured via the JiaZi running about within the 9 palaces grid. Within JiaZi, let’s look at the stem 干 itself. There are 10 stems but there are only 9 palaces. So, at any one time, only 9 stems will be shown array within the 9 palaces. If you need to count from the first stem, 甲 all the way to 癸, it is always the Jia 甲 that will be gone missing. This is how the term DunJia 遁甲 came about. DunJia always work as a rotation within the SanYuan enclosure of 360 days a year. The remaining days are calibrated via a method called ZhiRun Fa 直闰法. However, it is not always easy for common people to keep up with the intercallaration of this method. Therefore, they improvised another method called ChaiBu Fa 拆补法, meaning dismantle and patch back again. However, this method is a little arbitrarily and not truly the pedigree of DunJia. DunJia 遁甲 is further developed into its own method notably, the art of war 兵法. By resembling Jia 甲 as the King 君, YiBingDing 乙丙丁 as the 3 nobles and the rest of the 6 stems as the 6 crescents or warlords, it has manifested itself into an art governing human affairs. That is what it is famously known today by literatures of the 3 Kingdoms and so forth. So hiding the Jia or 遁甲 becomes, hiding the King. However, it is always not necessary true. DunJia is also a system enable one to peep into possible future resembling Quantum Mechanics where the anthropic effects do not necessary bring about a fix definite outcome, 1 plus 1 is never equal 2. This is later commercially termed forecasting. In fact, many of the forecasting system we use such as 六爻, 八字, 玄空 and so forth are based on DunJia. Strangely the work of BoWen, DiTianSui 滴天髓 Drips of Heavenly Marrow laid the foundation of DunJia. With forecasting, it is then applied to FengShui forecasting. It is never meant to be a FengShui method. It is deemed to have been a FengShui method by practitioners who had never been trained in true YangGong FengShui or DiLi 地理. So, technically it should not have been use as a FengShui technique but a FengShui forecasting instead. It gives you a glimpse of where Qi is coming from, going to and its apparent Sha 煞. You still need to adopt 收山出煞 Receiving Yin, Protruding Sha to ride Qi. Ironically, BaZhai 八宅, ZiBai 紫白 and XuanKong 玄空 are all the offsprings of DunJia 遁甲. So, how on earth are these techniques used to 收山出煞 Receiving Yin, Protruding Sha to ride Qi? Strange isn't it? Even more strange when there are people who says BaZhai 八宅 using the 甲子 JiaZi is never a true method because in the olden days, it simply cannot be that complicated. How on earth could an offspring do not contain the DNA of its parent? How do you think all the Gua numbers 命卦 comes about if it is not from DunJia? If you cannot discern these, please go back to the fundamentals. With forecasting also, it is applied to Fate calculation 命理. It cannot replace BaZi but it could point out a way to go against destiny, because with forecasting, the end result is not fixed. Some use BaZi as the diagnosis and DunJia as a prescription. Collectively, art of war cum destiny cum forecasting are sexily termed strategy execution coupled with QiMen, it is now known as QiMenDunJia 奇门遁甲. Aptly, SanYuan QiMenDunJia 三元奇门遁甲. It adds many layers to QiMen to make it more complex now having the dimensions of deities, stars, doors, heaven and earth Qi, PurpleWhite, 9 palaces and Gua. Not sufficient? Wait till you encounter this species called XianTian SanYuan XuanKong DaGua QiMen DunJia 先天三元奇門遁甲玄空大卦. What a mouthful of jargons. Strangely, this is not yet the material for XieZiFa 些子法.
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方圓圖 FangYuan Tu is derived from the understanding that Heaven is round 天圓 and the Earth is square 地方. Round 圓 is talking about the enclosure of “fixed stars”. Square 方 is referring to the “imperfect orbital” movements around the Sun. It demarcates YinYang and generates “vibration” to form 五运六气 liked a ShiPan 式盤, It simply meant to say a divination tool just like using a ShiPan 式盤. Many defines 方圓圖 FangYuan Tu as the circular FuXi’s early heaven and square WenWang’s later heaven diagram of the 64 Gua arrangements, a predecessor to JingFang’s 64 Gua arrangement one find in the XKDG rings. It is for you to use for divination. 實窺天心之竅 truly a gap to pry into the Heaven’s Heart means to know the Heaven’s Will. 天心 here has nothing to do with a Xue 穴 location. It simply meant divination. The profound are the principles, the obvious are the imagery simply means Heaven has mystical way to answer your question through imagery. Imagery referred to the Gua 卦. Body and Application comes from the same source, gap cannot be seen between them. Body being the principle is profound. Gua 卦 is profound and has many meanings. Application is to pluck a Gua 卦 and it is an answer to your question. No question, no answer and a moment a question is asked, a phenomenon arises and that is a Gua imagery 卦象 – your answer in a seamless gap. This is meant by gap cannot be seen between them. Auspicious and Inauspicious to diminish or to grow are its principles, Advancing and Retreating, Gua imagery 卦象 – your answer determines Auspicious and Inauspicious of the situation and influence your action - Advancing and Retreating. To exist and to neglect are the paths simply put the options available for you to choose. Comprehend the meanings and understand their numbers, with Qi period accumulate into them, these phrases simply tell you the importance of Li Qi and Xiang 理气象 and not about timeliness. Huge has huge use, small has small use – is a Chinese expression to say it can be used for all matters small and big. Not have no pass through, not have no contain – is only a closing statement that no question, no divination. I am speechless when someone said it has anything to do with 抽爻換象, Transforming Yao Changing Hexagram through door tilting. What a joke…
I bump across a video in FB showing the application of XKDG. It is a clip taken from a life course in India. What is interesting about this video is that – it is the main dish of XKDG where people paid USD40,000 to learn and now it is available Free of Charge (FoC) over the internet. Really pity those folks who has invested so much. On the other hand, didn’t anyone feel strange that all the sudden there are so many masters teaching XKDG and QMDJ just barely attended these courses over the period of 5-8 days? Maybe there is truth in it as today, we have instant noodles. There should not be any surprise to have instant master, so to speak. Anyway as the saying goes, buyers beware. This video clip crystalize the method use by a young XKDG practitioner who was claimed to have revived Publika. Back in 2012, it was not disclose as to how would a gigantic arch-way performs the magical touch of drawing Qi into the west entrance of Publika. Now, as the video clip explained it is done in the following manner: -
The secret art of XKDG application is disclosed by the Video Clip. If you care to match it in a real life case, Publika is the best example followed by Tropicana Mall and so forth. My question is why only Kun Ren Yi? Many thanks to the “FengShui Artist” and his accredited instructor for the disclosure of the secret art in XKDG application for Free! MY OTHER WRITINGS ABOUT PUBLIKA A great tipped off. News have it that a not so well to do mall is gradually improving thanks to the art of FengShui. My visit there during lunch doesn't seen too promising. According to reliable sources, it used to be worse. That I could only imagine, splendor architecture without a single soul using it. What a waste. One biggest problem I must admit is the 'design failure' of the car park, absolutely brainless with so many blind spots, confusing driveways, narrow ramps and pathetic turning radius which only fits the 'kancil' (pun intended for the smallest vehicle produce by Bolehland). Technically speaking, such development is strongly dependable by offices and residential nearby. Obviously, you will not go there for no apparent reason. By virtue of its densities, it will soon be consumes by residence and office workers alike. Only time is the factor and the use of FengShui to expedite auspiciousness is warranted here. One cannot justify its FengShui formation without understanding the big structure with its complete embrace and Qi mouth. Understanding thus one would understand why it fails to prosper within a short period. In a perfect FengShui jargon it is said to have been imbalanced YinYang. However, the source Qi is still available, that is a good thing as far as RuDi Yan or Entering Earth Eye is concerned. Yet, I am a bit doubtful if it is within SanShui JiuXing FanGua Fa or method of the 9 stars in evaluating mountain and water, as claimed. It's pure wishful thinking. In any FengShui application, one cannot just go and instill all cures without understanding the layers of YinYang involved. This is one thing many FengShui teachers are not ready to teach. In a given context of a built structure, mapping of the Qi maps become important for without such how would one knows how Qi flows? Yet, it is surprise to see how many advanced students of FengShui actually fumbles when one asked how would one actually determine it is an incoming Qi and not an outgoing Qi. Implying also, is every door opens to the external is an incoming Qi mouth? Better, does Qi flows from left to right or right to left? Very fundamental question but surprisingly many advanced students are more concerned about formulas then all these building blocks of RuDi Yan. The entire complex is best represented by its main entrances. The Rotunda entrance was designed to expel Qi by architectural default. There is no Killing Sha outside whatsoever. The glitch is the water exit which creates a pulling nose effect. Do we really need to see physical water? That is a typical wealth leakage. Then someone informed me that the Qi flow is too straight from right to left and the bright hall is not big enough to coagulate Qi, therefore the FengShui artist actually recommended a water feature to 'boundary' the Qi. These are the lesson they learn as graduate FengShui practitioners. I really hope that they had heard it wrongly, for all purpose said why would a potted water feature installed and not a pond dug out from the ground? Too much theory overdosed? As for the flaw in the internal bright hall, a sunken platform is always a technically challenged solution, yet there are other ways to go about it. Saying thus the eateries at the white tiger side enjoys brisk business while the others so-so and my instant question is why? West entrance contains the signature archway cure, which is one celebrated method innovated to give an extra edge to XuanKong DaGua landform as was told, apparently inspired by the Chinese Archways Pass, which is already a very common method in the Chinese Civilization. The western Urban Designer called it Gateways, which denotes the entrance and exit of a city. Having such, all the internal doors are unified by this grand archway and it becomes the primary Qi mouth. Logically it may sound, but I have a different opinion to it. To understand the intricate set up of the west entrance, one has to understand that it is receiving Yin structure, very unsentimental. So naturally a twisted archway is called for be it aligned to a particular DaGua is subject to further scrutiny. Yet, it is a pure landform solution to a landform problem. Hill likes landscapes or nicknamed "ToFu", as was told to me, replicates the JuMen mountain at the rear. The fact is it is no more then to create cascading water effects to slow down Qi, nothing complicated whatsoever. There is also the drain to be addressed but that is another tale for another time. Having the Qi mouth fixed, the real "kungfu" is still within the proper main entrance to the complex in relation to the archway. Yet, is it still considered the main incoming Qi mouth? Having say so, beginner mistake - make all Qi mouth to be incoming! There is a reason for the east entrance to dispel Qi. The eastern bright hall to be cluttered and so forth and a 'pet' cafe store to be located to have very little customer and to have its FengShui rectified. My question, would one prefer to use SanHe or SanYuan in this instances? If it is FengShuied, the amount of customer within such period is still far from satisfactory, belittling the secret method of XieZi Fa 些子法, if there is any? I am puzzled by the fact that the ingenuity and the real intention of the FengShui artist was not clearly stated from the horse's mouth knowing beforehand that such masterpiece would be an invaluable discussion among his beloved graduating students who is one day crafting their names in the industry quoting ill equipped as an undisputed reason. So much so as a bona-fide gesture, Will await one day that such case study would be made available from the artist point of view and be discussed without the air of a master. my other writings about tropicana mall This is a Mall straddle between the NKVE highways, designed to be a stop over whenever commuters are stuck in the peak hour traffic jam. Good in theory but since its inception, it suffers from lack of human traffic just like the other case of Re-Publika, detail read HERE.
Undergone some makeover especially on the main entrance. Nothing extraordinary, besides crafting of the entrance, a row of water features were added and believed it, it gets better by the day, although Qi distributions on the internal still far from ideal compared to the suburb Mall, we talked about previously. Yes blame it to the strong ShaQi emitting from the highways. Imagine, the entire fate of the mall depends on the main door but in many cases, the corrective measures does not involve door tilting. Just a rectification of the immediate bright hall would do justice. Walking the Dragon is extremely fun. One being as you have to pay exorbitant fee to be shown around beautiful scenery and how and what a TangLang star may looks like, you will also be shown actual spot that may be a “needle width” where you could burry some of your DNA as “ShengJi” and really hope that by the time you arrive home, you will be the next billionaire. Well, the last time I heard is that walking the Dragon to China costs more than USD40,000? Really wonder who is the billionaire? 三年寻龙 , 十年点穴. Ancient master said, it takes 3 years to walk the dragon 三年寻龙 and 10 years to dot the meridian spot 十年点穴. It means to say to walk the dragon is very tedious process and to dot the meridian is even more difficult. Assuming the method one learnt is correct, if not even a 100 years you may not able to dot the meridian correctly. Locating the meridian point is not an easy venture.
The sole purpose of walking the Dragon is to locate the “holy – spot” called the meridian. Tons had been written about it and some said it is as small as a “needle width” but that is not very true. Such subject is largely referred to as Static Meridian, where only with the right natural conditions, such a spot would emerged. It is so “holy – molly” that only an earth deity would able to reveal to the deserving one not otherwise it is impossible to find. Even if it is chanced upon, you would need to “barter trade” your lifespan for the prosperity of your later generations. Anyway, walking the Dragon can now be simplified with GoogleEarth, just to get the basic right as for example incoming and outgoing water and so forth. Back to NuoDeng, isn’t it rather strange that the prosper areas are not within the TaiQi plain and they are not within the highland but the lowland or rather flatland? Even with walking the Dragon, what do we need to observe? How or rather what do we measure with our LuoPan? The dynamic aspect is what we require to measure – because that is how we know Qi flow. If we do not know Qi flow, what else do we measure? This is where Qi map becomes very important.
Only when you really need to dot the meridian point, you will need to do some walking the Dragon. You need to measure the appropriate heights of the embraces in relation to the incoming vein. |
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