玄空大卦深究 - XKDG: NOT EXACTLY FOR IDIOTS

There is another XKDG 玄空大卦 book in the market for the English readers but this book is not for the uninitiated. It jovially called itself as XKDG: Not Exactly for Idiots. It is a softcover book less than 300 pages written in a lucid style of the author trying to be funny at times to garnish a stale plate with otherwise dry and boring subject. Offered at a price of below USD50.00, with the same amount of “craps” found in live courses for the same subject for most schools of Chinese Metaphysics in the market that would probably burnt a deep hole in your pocket, like nothing less than USD5,000.00. It is truly an instructional book. However, being the initiated reader, we may offer some additional “craps” that is hardly heard of in this subject…

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HOW THE HECK YOU GROUP YOUR HEXAGRAMS ? - 八宮位

The openings of the book brought about the groupings of the Hexagram as the followings: -

1. 八宮下卦 - The Palaces Grouping based on the Lower Trigram 下卦 – this is exactly what has been shown in the XKDG ring of the outer plate 外盤, called the Heaven Plate 天盤. In other words, this is also known as the Heaven Plate grouping  天盤八宮位.
2. 八純卦宮位 - The Pure Gua Grouping based on the Upper Trigram – this is scattered all over the XKDG ring of the outer plate 外盤, called the Heaven Plate 天盤, but is identical to the XKDG ring of the inner plate 内盤, called the Earth Plate 地盤. In other words, this is also known as the Earth Plate grouping 地盤八宮位. It is known as Pure Gua 純卦 because the grouping is based on the GuaQi 卦氣 numbers as the group.
3. 九星宮位 - The Nine Stars Grouping based on the Period Numbers 卦運 . Hexagrams are grouped under the star group of such as TangLang 貪狼– 1, JuMen 巨門– 2, LuChun 祿存– 3 and the rest. These grouping is also known as the XKDG Leaning Star 挨星, AiXing Plate 挨星盤.  These numbers are reflected as the GuaYun 卦運 numbers.
4. 父母三盤卦位 - The Hexagram Families Grouping based on the extended version of the Nine Stars Grouping. Based on Jiang DaHung’s 蔣大鴻 whim and fancy, he created such thing as River East 江東 and River West 江西 grouping with River North 江北 and South 江南 as their parent Gua 父母卦. This is his definition of Hexagram Families.
5. 京房八宮卦 - The JinFang 京房 Eight Palaces Grouping based on YiLi irreversible order. This form of grouping used extensively in the process called Shuffling Heaven NaJia 渾天納甲, to assign stems and branches into every Yao 爻 of the Hexagram 卦. In between, the concept of out of Gua 出卦 and flipping Yao to change its imagery, ChaoYao HuanXiang 抽爻換象 was formulated. Some went as far as generating a BaGua out of JinFang eight palaces to be introduced into another “crap” called MingShi PanXian 明師盤線. 
   

The missing links are: -

1. 人盤宮卦 - The Human Plate Grouping… Yes, there is such thing called a Human Plate in the SanYuan LuoPan...
   
2. 先天父母三盤卦位 - The Early Heaven Families Grouping predating Jiang DaHung’s River East and River West with River North and River South as their parent Gua… Before WenWang Gua 文王卦 comes about with the Later Heaven BaGua relationship of Father and Mother with the 6 siblings 六爻, there are a families grouping based on Early Heaven such as Heaven and Earth fixed position right up to Fire and Water do not shoot each other. This is the so called - original families...
3. With item 2, the entire understanding of GuaQi 卦氣 and GuaYun 卦運 are different, resulted in the reverse order of numbering sequence of the Hexagram… The current odering of the GuaQi 卦氣 and GuaYun 卦運 attached to every Hexagrams are inaccurate... They should have been reversed...
4. The idea of out of Gua  出卦 and replacement Gua 替卦 will also be different… JingFang 8 palaces Gua 京房八宮卦 only tells that there are always 3 missing Gua within each of the palaces grouping, but it says nothing about replacing such missing Gua... Where do you think this theory comes about?
5. The missing Mid Heaven BaGua 中天挂…Some called it by many names... PanGu BaGua? ShenNong BaGua? HuangDi BaGua?
6. The original LianShan and GuiChang Gua 连山易归藏 grouping… It was said to have been lost yet the entire structure of XKDG is built upon this original LianShan and GuiChang Gua grouping... not the Later Heaven YiJing Gua grouping...
7. And so on and so forth… such as DaGua in 3D?

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WHAT IS THE MECHANICS OF XKDG? - 龍山向水

The book proceeded to explain the followings as the core applications of XKDG: -

1. Dragon, Mountain, Facing and Water 龍山向水. The emphasis is Dragon with Mountain, Facing with Water… Some school says, that because Dragon and Water are fixed, you ought to tilt your main door to achieve the correct or compatible Mountain and Facing. So, technically, you only have to deal with Facing with the location of the Water… This is where “Door Tilting Schools” were born.
   
2. Matching GuaYun versus GuaQi… Different school, different stroke… Jiang DaHung’s school will give emphasis on GuaYun… Some others, the GuaQi…
3. The state of timeliness as in SanYuan versus ErYuan… How to define timeliness of Jiang DaHung’s 9 stars based on upper, middle, lower Yuan or simply the upper and lower Yuan… Different school, different stroke…
4. The ZhenShen 正神 and LingShen 零神 principles of the Huge SanYuan… Where to see water and where to see mountain…
5. The meaning of combo 5, 10, 15 and HeTu…

The missing links are: -

1. Dragon, Mountain, Facing and Water 龍山向水 had totally different meaning altogether… SanYuan measures these differently… One question that most practitioners failed to answer… Do you sit Death and face Growth 座死向生，or sit Growth and face Death 座生向死。? Your callings...
   
2. Matching GuaYun versus GuaQi had totally different meaning altogether… GuaYun is the summary of the interaction between the GuaQi of the upper and lower Trigram and has nothing to do with the Jiang DaHung’s River East and River West with River North and River South as their parent Gua…
3. The state of timeliness is totally irrelevant…
4. The ZhenShen 正神 and LingShen 零神 principles of the Huge SanYuan 大三元 known in the market is totally off tangent… maybe by a mile?
5. No mention about the usage of NaYin 納音 elements…
6. No mention about the YangGong’s 杨公cardinal rules of the 4 major water mouths 四大水口…
7. No mention about how it is applied from the 2 slices to the 4 imageries, the 8 Guas to the 24 mountains then the 64 hexagram and the 72 Dragons…

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HOW TO SET UP A FORMATION IN XKDG? - 定局

The book brought to light some special conditions to adhere to such as: -

1. Death and Emptiness 空亡…
2. Out of Gua 出卦… Based on JingFang's 8 Palaces 京房八宮卦...

The book also explained the core structures of XKDG such as: -

1. One Gua Singularly Pure 一卦純清…
   
2. Combo 5, 10, 15 and HeTu …
3.  Kindred Spirit 骨肉柤通…
4. YuChe Jing’s KunRen Yi  坤壬乙…
5. The notorious 7 stars robbery 七星打劫…

Points to note: -

1. One Gua singularly pure structure 一卦純清, Combo 5, 10, 15 and HeTu structures are but common structures with fancy names…
   
2. The Jiang DaHung’s version of YuChe Jing’s KunRen Yi 坤壬乙 formations are but a fake… Many tried hard to explain such but failed miserably including the legendary Chen BeiSheng’s explanation of the JuMen Hexagram.
3. The notorious 7 stars robbery 七星打劫formations… where the one timely star went out the window to rob the auspiciousness of the rest of the 7 untimely stars so that the auspiciousness of that very one star would last 180 years as in SanYuan never been defeated 三元不敗? Wishful thinking… the real application is enshrined in the idea of XieZi  些子. One master in Bolehland that we knew called it – the X factor…

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 THE "MAGICAL ART OF HARRY POTTER" IN THE HEXAGRAM'S YAO CHANGE... - 用爻法

The book completes the voyage into XKDG by explaining the refined Qi management called Yao: -

1. 定爻法 Fixed Yao method – where the Yao remains the same. You ought to just read the meaning of the Hexagram as it is basis… Some school advocated the reading based on YiJing of the Zhou WenWang or Confucious intepretation.
2. 飛爻法 Flying Yao method – where the Yao is said to “fly” but in actual fact flipped according to JingFang’s 8 palaces sequence…Each of the flipped Yao will be assigned with a respective JiaZi and you read these Yao lines as according to LiuYao or WenWang Gua intepretations...
3. 抽爻換象 Flipping Yao to change the imagery method – where the Yao flip either from Yin or Yang sequence to change to another Hexagram…Only those with the red dots of the Yao ring attached to the Heaven Plate Hexagrams are auspicious...
   

Can these 3 methods be employed simultaneously? Unfortunately it was not mentioned in the book…

1. The Fixed Yao method 定爻法 is the core and it always linked back to the original FeiXing and BaZhai Gua intents. They were not meant to be intepreted as a YiJing Gua but for the purpose of Human actions, such as predictions of the occupants of the house and so forth, it can be employed. For Qi connections, they are entirely different story...
2. The Flying Yao method 飛爻法 is employed when one specifically zoom into a particular Hexagram for predictions and annual forecasting...
3. The Flipping Yao to change the imagery 抽爻換象 to some school are the answer of XieZi Fa, where you are able to change the location of a ZhengShen to LingShen and vice versa. It supposed to enable the operation of the Mid Heaven Gua of the Human Plate Hexagram... This is the ultimate of Qi Connections...
   

The book ends its note with some “sticky issue” that court controversy such as: -

1. XKDG should have been a standalone technique. Some school advocated the simultaneous application with FeiXing  飛 星 such as the WuChang Pai School 無常派, which is not appropriate…

While we do agree with the author on such notion, but what if the actual FeiXing  飛星 method vested on the same fundamentals of DaGua 大卦, simply called it as SanYuan FeiXing  三元飛星? The FeiXing becomes the integral part of the entire system of SanYuan 三元. One ought to work its ways from the BaGua system of Eight Mansions to the 24 mountains of Feixing, then only the 64 Hexagrams of DaGua. By such you will find that XuangKong that we knew of today, is nothing more but a fake system…

By saying such, it apprently make sense that this book cost only USD 50.00 and yet what has been discussed are the core syllabus of many XKDG live courses in the market that can fetched up to USD10,000.00 probably in the West and some also said, in Bolehland and Kiasuland respectively... With added stuff liked QMDJ and called it SanYuan XianTian QMDJ XKDG , it may goes up to USD 15,000.00. Day light robbery? Not really if it really dishes out the real stuffs instead of the common knowledge found in many Chinese FengShui books of the same topic.

As for the Book, coincidentally called - XUANKONG DAGUA Not Exactly For Dummies written by our favorite author, Master Hung HinCheong, is strongly recommended to buy for collection...

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A CASE IN MIND...

XIEZI OF SOON TO BE DRAGON SPOT - 18102010

The fiasco of soon to be master has opened up another opportunity. Exactly the sort of case study we ought to investigate - why would a FengShui practice (subject) ceased to survive in Kuala Lumpur? It was rather puzzling as the claimed expert in locating "dragon Spot" with self proclaimed XieZi would have located a wonderful office to begin with? Why all the sudden packed and go? We ought to understand what has gone so very wrong with the location itself or perhaps what has gone so wrong with the method of application.

Located at a commercial area, the tapping of Qian incoming with two rivers namely, Sungai Keroh and Sungai Batu, exiting at Xun could be well benefitted. Qi sequence from Templers, Selayang, Sungai Buloh, Kepong and all the way to Segambut and Sentul manifesting "cowboy town" Tell tale sign of robust business with a lack of nobility. That is why there are a lot of wealthy Chinaman.

Subject office is sitting Wu (Li) facing Zi (Kan), very close to DE, how can that be possible? Higher on the front and lower at the back, contradicting ideal land form principle. Conforming to the SanYuan LingZhen principle which is, in this case, only GOOD on paper because it is not supported by landform.

XKDG perspective, Dragon matching Mountain, GuaQi metal 9-4, Water matching Facing GuaQi water 1-6. All period 6 Gua conforms to lower period 8 onwards. What has gone so freaking wrong? All matching hexagram is not Out of Gua neither are they from different family of East River Gua. Qi communication, technically smooth.

SanHe perspective, Yang Fire structure incoming Extinct exiting Officer. Receiving Stale Qi and Exiting Vibrant Qi. Water mouth unlocked.

PostScript: Jo Ching said... any idea which yao is the sitting on? this is a chou yao huan xiang method. Might have changed to the wrong image.

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XIEZI OF SOON TO BE DRAGON SPOT 2 - 20102010

Prompted by a fellow practitioner in Singapore about 抽爻换象, altering the Yao to transform the imagery. Novel idea to add more layer in the XKDG methodology. To achieve   一卦纯清 or Single Pure Gua Formation, there is a tendency that the selected Hexagram, of 5.625 degree, may have changed to another Hexagram based on a more refined subdivision of Yao, within the region of 0.937 degree (speaking about German accuracy here in the context of ancient Chinese art). That is an absolute accuracy given the fact that the rustic handmade LuoPan is quite a primitive tool. No doubt, it is subject of major criticism yet for completeness let's investigates further.

Physical measurement revealed that it is close to the 3rd Yao. Change from the sitting Hex of Eliminating to Marsh. Can this  一卦纯清 or Single Pure Gua Formation?

The original Hex Eliminating denotes cutting off. Five Yang Yao cutting off a single Yin Yao, leaving no room for retreat. The general connotation of this Gua is inauspicious reflecting careless move and ill judgment. Such is the nature of soon to be master FengShui practice located in this alignment which are bound to disputes and disharmony. Whereas, the transformed Hex Marsh is an auspicious one. Such will only be beneficial if one is sincere without ulterior motives. However, would it transform in the first place?
No combination taken place within the transformed Hex itself. Speaking of 一卦纯清 or Single Pure Gua Formation, not so easy as it is...