PPS Book 6

PPS Book 6

2 DEC 2021
11.49 AM.

Content Page

1. What is Feng Shui? 3
2. Feng Shui 101: An Introduction to the Bagua 37
3. Feng Shui 101: Introducing the 5 Elements 67
4. What is the Feng Shui 5 Elements Theory 92

Wu Xing (五行)?

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What is Feng Shui?

• Feng Shui.
It has become part of our mainstream consciousness.
When someone uses the phrase “bad Feng Shui”
they generally mean “it was not a nice a place,
something was off about it.”

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• You may have even used it to describe your frustration
with your home, office or life.

“Nothing seems to be going my way.
My life could use some Feng Shui!”

or “Wow, this place is in serious need of some Feng Shui.”

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• This often-misunderstood practice
has started to become part of our Western dialogue.

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• When people say that 6
they are in desperate need of some Feng Shui
what they are saying is that
they need to shift the energy in their space and life
—they just don’t know it.

• Feng Shui has the power to change
not only the look of our home,
but also our outlook on life.

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• Feng Shui (pronounced Fung Schway)
is both an ancient art
and a complex system of divination, geomancy, and astrology.

It is a practice
that strives to bring people
and their environment
into harmony.

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• The name Feng (wind) Shui (water) 8
embodies the influence of nature on our wellbeing.

Chi (Qi or Ch’i)
is the unseen energy
that flows through the earth
and nourishes all living things.

Chi is life force, vital energy.

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• This idea of vital energy
has existed in many cultures for centuries: ch’i (China), ki (Japan),
prana (India), pneuma (Greece), elan vital (France).

It is the breath of life that flows through us, around us,
and in our environment.

Feng Shui is the practice of channeling, harnessing,
and enhancing this life force.

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• The formal practice of Feng Shui 10
and geomancy
dates back almost 4000 years,
but it had been practiced far early in as a form of shamanism.

• Shamans divined how man should navigate in nature.

• Looking at the forms of the earth,
the weather and the cosmos.

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• “For the last 5000 years,
Feng shui
has been used as environmental science, magic, worship,
and therapy,
to bring security, wealth, harmony, and happiness
to homes, communities, workplaces, cities and countries.”

— Steven Post The Modern Book of Feng Shui

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The Many Schools of Feng Shui 12

• Over the centuries,
many different schools of Feng Shui
have developed.

While each school
may have a different focus or approach to
the art and science of Feng Shui,
they all share one common goal: to create harmony
and balance between people and their environments.

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• I like to think of Feng Shui like yoga. 13
Yoga
has many styles and forms
but they all the same intention: to help us
become more present
through the connection of mind and body.

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• Feng Shui is same.

You will encounter different approaches and techniques,
but a qualified and competent practitioner
should always strive
to help their clients
improve their home and life.

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• I will review three main schools of Feng Shui, 15
with the caveat

that there are many more than

what I have reviewed here.

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Form Feng Shui 16

• Geomancers
would examine the terrain and quality of the earth,
mountain shapes,
and orientation of bodies of water
to determine the most auspicious site
to build a dwelling.

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• The concept of the ‘armchair’ position

runs through most schools of Feng Shui today:

a protective rise behind the home or lot,

supportive trees at the sides,
and a clear view in the front.

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GOLDEN PAVILLION

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• The four celestial animals: 19
the black tortoise, green dragon,
white tiger and red phoenix,
are symbolic of land formations,
which creates the ‘armchair’ position.

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• These principles,
and geomantic practices of reading the land,
have been absorbed into many modern schools of Feng Shui.

• Today we interpret our roads and buildings
as the equivalent of rivers and mountains,

for better or for worse,
they are our modern-day land formations.

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Compass School Feng Shui 23

• This school of Feng Shui
uses compass directions
to calculate
the optimal placement of dwellings and businesses,

using the Lo Pan,
a very detailed, and complex compass.

• For Compass practitioners,
the directions and timing are critical factors.

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• According to this method of Feng Shui, 26
each person
has an auspicious set of directions
to determine where best to slept, eat and work;

these directions
are calculated
based on the time and date of birth.

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• Other tools and methods 28
used by Compass practitioners
are the Pa Kua and Flying Star,
both are based on the Lo Shu square.

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Lo Shu square

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Black Sect Feng Shui 30

• This is the Feng Shui that I practice.
It is a form of shamanistic Feng Shui
with ancient roots in Taoism and Buddhism.

BTB Feng Shui

(as it is more commonly known)

uses transcendental cures and adjustments

to remedy issues.

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• Practitioner’s use what is called a Bagua (similar to the Pa Kua),
and the five elements energy system to assess a space.

They do not use the fixed cardinal directions,

but rather use the principle of relative positioning

based on the dominant flow of chi.

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• They orient the Bagua 33
in line with the main source of chi
to assess a space’s energy,
and to recommend Feng Shui cures
to correct energy deficiencies.

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• “Grandmaster Lin Yun’s Feng Shui school 35
emphasizes the Theory of Relative Positioning,
which states that the areas of the environment
that are physically closest to you affect your energy.”
— Daniel David Kennedy Feng Shui for Dummies

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• Other tools and methods 37

used by BTB Feng Shui practitioners
are meditation, divination
and the nine basic cures.

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• Hopefully this brief overview of Feng Shui 38
will give you
a better understanding of the rich history
and complex principles behind this ancient art.

No matter which school of Feng Shui you follow, or study
they all have the same basic
desire to help people
to achieve balance and to increase prosperity
in their lives.

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Feng Shui 101: An Introduction to the Bagua

• The bagua is the energy grid
used by Feng Shui practitioners
to interpret a living space
—a tool to map a home or plot of land
that gives us a systematic way of looking at a home’s energy field
that is inspired by the natural flow of nature.

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• The traditional energetic shape of the bagua 41
is the octagon with 8 directions, or guas.
The name Ba-Gua
literally translates into 8 guas, or 8 directions.

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• When applying it to a home

we would use the modern,

and mundane application of a square or rectangle
that fits easily over a living space.

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• The drawings below 48
apply the bagua method and rules of BTB Feng Shui
(Black Sect Feng Shui).

Unlike compass Feng Shui practices,
this method does not use the fixed cardinal directions,
but rather the principle of relative positioning
based on the dominant flow of chi.

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• We will orient the bagua
in line with the main source of chi
to assess a space’s energy: a roadway, waterway or driveway.

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• “Grandmaster Lin Yun’s Feng Shui school 50
emphasizes the Theory of Relative Positioning,
which states that
the areas of the environment
that are physically closest to you
affect your energy.”

-- Daniel David Kennedy

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