ChiDragon

Well, this thread is not about Feng Shui. It is about Ba Gua and trigrams. Feng Shui should be moved to another thread as its own.

I just don't want to go into an unnecessary lengthy argument which leads us nowhere. Nothing personal....

If your mind has made up what it is already, then, there is no further action needed to change it....

精(jing): the prenatal essential substance which made up of the the human body 精子(jing Zi): the sperm.

I was only talking about the nine dots, since the question was pointing to that direction. The nice palaces is a different story. What you said is true, but there a lot more to it in interpretation then just translation since the Feng Shui system was developed by an esoteric Taoist Group. I see something got lost in the above quote already.

The nine is the number of white dots in to He Tu; it has nothing to do with the trigrams. Please don't get confuse with that. There lots of materials written in Chinese literature which is not possible to be translated into English. If you really want to learn about Feng Shui, it is better to learn it from a Chinese Feng Shui master which speaks English. However, you must pay a high price for it.

"Feng Shui translated as Wind & Water, but the Wind and Water trigrams are Xun and Kan" Feng Shui is the 風水, Wind & Water. A general term was given to this divination profession. The reason the name was given as Feng Shui(風水, Wind & Water) is because the wind and water have a great influence which effecting our living environment. "Wind and Water trigrams are Xun and Kan" In Yi Jing, Xun was a technical name given to the trigram of Wind itself; and Kan was a given name to the trigram of Water. Yes, you'll have to take my words for it. One can find the information in a Chinese reference source. The diagram in the cited site was called the He Tu. All the black dots were considered as Earth and the white dots as Heaven. What you have given above is the interpretation of the He Tu. Indeed, we have to take the interpretation as given definitions. Based on the definition of the black(Earth) and white(Heaven) dots, I see there is an error in: 4-9 4 Earth generates metal, Earth 9 completes it. The West (right) is assigned the Metal element. All the odd numbers are consider to be (Heaven)Yang. It should be corrected to read: 4-9 4 Earth generates metal, Heaven 9 completes it. The West (right) is assigned the Metal element. The five elements were assigned to the four main directions and the center(Earth). It is very important for the Feng Shui masters to remember the position of those elements for Feng Shui interpretations.

First, let's look at the characteristics of the fire and Water. Fire rises, thus use the top line. Water flows down, thus use the bottom line. If we exchange the position of those lines, then Fire become Thunder and Water becomes Swamp as shown in the Later Day(Heaven) Ba Gua.

Here is how the Fire trigram reacts with the Water trigram to become Thunder and Swamp trigrams, respectively. First, let's look at the characteristics of the fire and Water. Fire rises and Water flows down. Therefore, the top line of Fire reacts with the bottom line of Water. If we exchange the position of those lines, then Fire become Thunder and Water becomes Swamp as shown in the Later Day(Heaven) Ba Gua.

Fire is High Noon at 12:00PM

Yes, sorry. I had made the corrections. Thank you.

Here is how the Early Day Ba Gua evolved to the Later Day Ba Gua. First, let's look at the Heaven(Yang) and Earth(Yin) trigrams. The Yin reacts with the Yang. Since these two trigrams are either all solid or broken lines, thus the center line reacted by exchange position with each other. The final result, the Fire(Sun) trigram is ended on top(South) and the Water(Moon) trigram is at the bottom(North). Indeed, after the universe was created, the Sun is the brightest and hottest at high noon in the South. That is why the Fire trigram is ended up in the top. The light of the Moon depends on the light of the Sun, therefore, the Moon is passive which being having the Yin attribute. The trigrams, in the four main directions, only reacting with one line exchanging position with each other following by a logical sequence. Let see if anyone of you can figure out how the Fire(East) and Water(West) changed to what is now in the Later Day Ba Gua....!!! Please remember, you must give a good reason why did you make those changes as such.

How did you come to this conclusion...???

Since when do we start having dirty Chi that needs to be refined....???

I cannot follow this at all...

You got that right but not by assignment. Here is how you determine it. Look at the least number of the yin/yang line in the trigram to determine the attribution. If the trigram has one Yin line, then, its attribute is Yin. One Yang line was considered to be Yang. The Philosophy was the more scarce, the more precious.

If Tai Ji was applied to martial arts. Then, Tai Ji is yin/yang. Push is yang, pull is yin.

I meant a trigram. _____ __ __ _____ How do you determine this trigram is yin or yang....???

You make them up....??? That doesn't sound logical...!!! One should be able to determine it by just looking at each trigram(gua).

What white and black squares are you talking about....??? Do you know how to determine the yin/yang attribute of the ba guas....???

The early-heaven bagua lays out the universe in the four main directions; and the four corner baguas are the geographic layout of China. It was not used for feng shui at all. Only the later-heaven was used for feng shui.

If you had done chi kung, meditation and other energetic and breathing exercises, it should work. How did you do it and how often did you practice....???

1. It is too complicated to be answered here. 2. The I-Ching started with 8 trigrams to represent the eight phenomena. However, at later days, it was discovered that more symbols were needed. Therefore, the combinations of trigrams 8 x 8 to form 64 hexagrams for more expressions. 3. The later version was used for feng shui only. 4. To avoid any confusion, the way you have it is correct. 5. Heaven is on top was because when you look up the sky, it is above your head; and when you look down, Earth is below your feet. For more info: please go here: Explanation about Trigrams

Very good informative article. The eye movement in sync with the arm movement is accomplished internally by the internal alchemy. The open eye was to detect the external movement around you. It is a matter of how fast can your eyes send a signal to have the brain to respond by sending a signal for the arms to move for counteracting any attack. Closing the eyes during Zhan Zhuang will increase the sensitive for the sense of hearing. However, I do not see with the eyes open in ZZ has any significant benefit as oppose to the eyes close. Of course, this is only my personal opinion.