What is Feng Shui?
"Feng shui" is an ancient chinese practice
of achieving life fulfillment by promoting wealth, health and
relationship through harnessing "qi" (or chi) in a location,
be it our surrounding environment, our home, workplace or business
property. Chi is a form of matter or energy that can be visible,
invisible or partially visible and partially invisible. Chi
is carried and scattered by the wind and retained by water.
That was how the term Feng shui (which means wind and water)
was derived. Feng shui can be applied to manipulate chi and
create beneficial changes in our lives to attain life fulfillment.
A person's life path or destiny is determined
by three influences of luck: Heaven, Earth and Human. Heaven
luck is determined by time (including time of birth) associated
to gifts, blessings and karma incorporated into our lives when
we breathe in the first chi. Earth luck is determined by location
(where we stay and work), in which feng shui could play a role
to harness this luck. Human luck depends greatly on our up-bringing,
character, education and hard work.
The trinity of heaven, earth and human
luck when synchronized together will result in perfect harmony.
Fengshui, when applied correctly not only enhance earth luck,
but could also promote the three kinds of luck to complement
each other to result in blessing and bring us towards the upper
end of our life destiny.
A Fengshui analysis examines the macro
environment (external area of a building), micro environment
(building and interiors), time-related factors (current "Feng
shui period" according to lunar calendar and birth of the building)
and people factors (birth date and gender of occupants). Adjustments,
enhancement, remedy and cures would then be applied to synchronize
occupant with environment and time to achieve improvement in
life.
The fundamental principles of fengshui
involves knowledge of the taoist "bagua", surrounding "theory
of yin and yang", "five elements" and "eight trigrams". Yin
and yang illustrate the evolution of all things that exist and
the importance of balancing yin and yang aspects of our lives.
Meanwhile, theory of five elements hold the key to remedying
and enhancing chi. Eight trigrams (derived from Yijing or I
ching) represent the transitional phases and movement of chi
in heaven, earth and human.
Two classical school of traditional Feng
shui / Fengshui named San He (Landscape or Form School) and
San Yuan (Compass School) had carved out the path to most of
today's practiced Feng shui tips and resources in a Fengshui
consultation. Flying Star (Xuan Kong Fei Sin) and Eight Mansions
(8 Houses or Pa Chai) as a result of the combination of classical
studies are used widely today. Today, Eight Aspirations Theory
which was derived later (back in Ching Dynasty) had also been
incorporated with much success in the practice of Fengshui to
generate wonderful results in modern living. Recently a new
ideology of feng shui practiced widely by the west had also
been created, known as the Black Sect Tantric Buddhist Feng
shui (BTB).
