ChiDragon

Yes, it is so simple to be enlightened. I could just take a drink of water and become enlightened....

2. The simple method to convert the Western Calender Year(WCY) to Lunar Year(LY). 1957, we add up all the digits of the WCY: 1 + 9 + 5 + 7 = 22, then 2 + 2 = 4 For male, subtract the number from 11: 11 - 4 = 7 For female, add 4 to the number: 4 + 4 = 8 Again, look up those numbers on the Luo Shu and the Later Day Ba Gua.

How is the number calculated from the birth year...??? Let's use one of the example in one of my sources. The head of house was born in 1957. There are few ways to calculate the number for determining what the direction of the front door of the house should be facing. I will illustrate two of them. 1. The remainder method. We take the last two digits of the birth year of the male and subtracted from 100 then divide it by 9. The remainder is the number that we want to use to locate on the Luo Shu Nine Palace Chart. If the head of household is a male: 100 - 57 = 43 43/9, the remainder is 7. The calculated number, 7, is located on the West of the Luo Shu. It means that the front door should be facing East and the back of the house is on the West side. It was said to be the house of Dui(兌, Swamp). If the HOH is a female: 57 - 4 = 53 53/9, the remainder is 8. The calculated number, 8, is located on the Northeast corner of the Luo Shu. It means that the front door should be facing Southwest and the back of the house is on the Northeast side. It was said to be the house of Gen(艮, Mountain). The Nine Palace Chart(Luo Shu, 河圖) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Later Day(Heaven) Ba Gua (後天八卦)

1. The top and bottom lines of the Swamp and Thunder trigrams exchanged positions, in the Early Day Ba Gua, and become the Wind and Mountain in the Later Day Ba Gua. 2. The top two lines of Wind trigram and the bottom two lines of the Mountain exchanged positions, in the Early Day Ba Gua, and become Earth and Heaven trigrams in the Later Day Ba Gua.

When we are talking about Feng Shui, normally(I repeat normally) applies to a residence which affects the head of the household(HOH). The direction which way the house should be facing is very important to the HOH. When one is going to buy a house, his birth year was used to determine which way his house will be facing. Using the birth year of the HOH to calculate a number, then look up the number on the Nine Palace(Luo Shu) Chart and the Later Day Ba Gua to determine the facing direction of the house and what kind of ming(命) the owner has.

Moved to Feng Shui thread....

Clarity... I think your nickname says all....

"The major problems are" What is that suppose to be meant....???

Why should it be a problem...???? Wasn't that the whole idea is to keep the diaphragm upward while doing reverse breathing(inhalation)...???

It seems to me we have three scenarios here. 1. The relative movement of the diaphragm is the dependent of the abdomen. 2. The relative movement of the diaphragm is the dependent of the breathing. 3. The movement of diaphragm is independent of the breathing and abdomen. Which one is it....???

Taomeow... Based on what you did for your husband, it sounded like you did a divination for his job finding. It did not sound like a Feng Shui evaluation. Thus you got me wondering about what your definition of Feng shui really is....!!!

Taomeow... What is the purpose of Feng Shui in the first place....??? What would you tell someone who has no knowledge about Fen Shui...???

Chinese Calender with Animals related to each Year

HE I don't know where you get your story from. Tibetans are Buddhism, they do not practice the Taoist religion beliefs. Tibetan Burials

1. I have many resources written in Chinese, I will search something similar in English for you if there is any online. If not, I can translate my source just for your interest and curiosity. 2. There tons of charts in Chinese. I am sure there maybe some in English. Again, I will do a search for you. Edited to add: The animals for the years are very common. You can do a search on "Chinese zodiac calendar".

The idea way for "Yang Dwelling" is to have the door facing South. In the other hand, for "Yin Dwelling" is to have the front of the tomb facing West. However, not all houses can be facing South. The houses facing in different directions will affect the life of the owner based on one's birthday. That is why a Feng Shui master was called to investigate to make improvements to correct the geomancy condition for the owner. The Flying Stars method is another method, but not the only method of Feng Shui, used to rearrange the furnitures every year for a particular owner based on one's birthday.

Yes, Fire trigram is at the South, but one must locate the Ba Gua in its proper direction first. One has to find South and place the Fire trigram of the Later Day Ba Gua there. One cannot just place it anywhere and assume that is South. Do you know what I mean...???

That doesn't mean that the back wall of any house is South.

If you find North with the compass, then South is in the opposite direction. How can you just using the back wall as South...???

When a boy has to look up a word in the dictionary, he always just flipping the pages back and forth until he finds the word. At the age about sixteen, he came out from the basement with a smile on his face because he has been enlightened. He had discovered that the dictionary was alphabetized page by page.

Let's get back on course.... The evolution of the Early Day Ba Gua to the Later Day Ba Gua was based on the reaction of the corresponding trigrams. There are four directional trigrams and four corner trigrams. The four directional trigrams are only using one line to react with the complementary trigram across from each other. The four corner trigrams are using two lines to react between the top and bottom trigrams on the left and right sides.

Breath work, to me, is the ultimate breathing method in QiGong. Feng Shui is all psychology which are the things were affecting you emotionally.

Let me make myself clear. I do not believe in Feng Shui. The reason I study it was for my curiosity by testing their claims to see they are true or not. The most interesting was to find out how they made their predictions. It was fun to know how they come up with the formulation to reach certain conclusions. It was interesting to know that there is a Feng Shui master, here, in my state of California. He helped to rearrange everything in the state capitol and become famous for that. Now, he is teaching Feng Shui class in southern California. The best thing about him is that he helps his student to get into the actual practice and make money after the course was completed.

Yes, if one understood the basic concepts, things do have to be changed around in different regions. That is why Feng Shui is environmental. The present 羅盤(luo2 pan2) was designed for the Chinese region. The Early Day Ba Gua has to be rearranged in order to fit a particular region. There was one case, a student from Australia did ask his teacher in China about the how the Luo Pan should be facing. The teacher told him to turn it around(180 degrees). There was one question in my mind at the time when I read that. The four corner trigrams are the geographical layout of China. I don't know did his teacher has considered or not before he told his student. However, we can find that out from the geography of Australia. Very good...!!! If people start to question about what they'd read and learned, it is time to get wise....

I am not trying to run away from the subject on Feng Shui. What I am doing here is to let people know that one must study Yi Jing as a prerequisite before go into Feng Shui. The Yi Jing involves the Yin-Yang, trigrams, Ba Gua, He Tu and Luo Shu. Before anyone jumps into Feng Shui, one should understand these items individually. Mainly is why the Early Day(Heaven) BA Gua was drown that way and how it was evolved into the Later Day Ba Gua. It is because the Feng Shui concept was mainly developed by laying the Later Day Ba Gua over the Luo Shu. IMO/IME If someone start talking about Feng Shui and knew nothing about the Ba Gua in the Yi Jing, then one doesn't know Feng Shui. Period. That is why I am spending so much time here on the Ba Gua(s). The general concept on Feng Shui(Wind and Water) is just common sense. Feng Shui is mainly to help someone to select a good and natural environment for a comfortable living. Why do we call it 風水(Feng Shui)...??? It is because the wind and water do have a great influence in our daily life. If you talk to an American Indian, he will tell you where and how to place his teepee because he knew all about the wind and water. An Indian will place his teepee where the water goes around it to assure that his teepee does not wash away by flood; and have the entrance of the teepee facing the South to assure that the cold wind from the North does not below into the teepee. Indeed, the Chinese Feng Shui system was based on this simple concept. This concept was laid out in the Ba Gua. The Ba Gua tells more about the universe and the geographic environment of a region than just the wind and water. In order to determine an accurate Feng Shui interpretation, there is an instrument called 羅盤(luo2 pan2) with the Early Day Ba Gua and a compass place in the center to find the correct direction and geographic layout of the region being investigate.