Meditation
" Meditation should form the basis for action. "
Source: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Four Celestial Animals
East: the Bluegreen/Green Dragon (Spring equinox) --- Niao (Bird), α Hydrae
South: the Red/Crimson Bird (Summer solstice) --- Huo (Fire), α Scorpionis
West: the White Tiger (Autumn equinox) --- Xu (Emptiness, Void), α, β Aquarii
North: the Dark/Black (Mysterious) Turtle (Winter solstice) --- Mao (Hair), η Tauri (the Pleiades)
South: the Red/Crimson Bird (Summer solstice) --- Huo (Fire), α Scorpionis
West: the White Tiger (Autumn equinox) --- Xu (Emptiness, Void), α, β Aquarii
North: the Dark/Black (Mysterious) Turtle (Winter solstice) --- Mao (Hair), η Tauri (the Pleiades)
Spiritual Life (02)
Meditate On The Truth
" If we can realise and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. "
Source: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
" If we can realise and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. "
Source: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
4. The Bright Hall
In front of the house, always endeavour to create a small level area as this creates the auspicious bright hall effect. This part of your home represents the phoenix and this celestial bird benefits from an expanse of open space. The bright hall formation allows incoming chi to settle and turn benevolent before entering your home. If you place a bird of somekind somewhere in this part of the home, residents will benefit from many money making opportunities.
Source: Lilian Too's 365 Feng Shui Tips
Source: Lilian Too's 365 Feng Shui Tips
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Spiritual Life (01)
Love Springs Eternal
" The foundation of all spiritual practice is love."
Source: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
" The foundation of all spiritual practice is love."
Source: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Ba-Gua
Ba-Gua is one of the main tools used to analyze the feng shui of any given space. Translated from Chinese, it literally means "8 areas".
The 8 directions used in the Feng Shui Ba Gua are the following: North, Northeast, East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West, and Northwest. Each direction has an Element, Color, and Life Area associated with it. Below is the summary of the eight feng shui guas.
North (compass reading from 337.5 to 22.5)
Element: Water
Color(s): Blue and Black
Life Area: Career/Path in Life.
Northeast (compass reading from 22.5 to 67.5)
Element: Earth
Color(s): Beige, Light Yelow, and Sandy/Earthy
Life Area: Spiritual Growth/Self-Cultivation.
East (compass reading from 67.5 to 112.5)
Element: Wood
Color(s): Brown and Green
Life Area: Health & Family.
Southeast (compass reading from 112.5 to 157.5)
Element: Wood
Color(s): Brown and Green
Life Area: Prosperity & Abundance.
South (compass reading from 157.5 to 202.5)
Element: Fire
Color(s): Red, Orange, Purple, and Bright Yellow
Life Area: Fame & Reputation.
Southwest (compass reading from 202.5 to 247.5)
Element: Earth
Color(s): Beige, Light Yelow, and Sandy/Earthy
Life Area: Love & Marriage.
West (compass reading from 247.5 to 292.5)
Element: Metal
Color(s): White and Gray
Life Area: Creativity/Children.
Northwest (compass reading from 292.2 to 337.5)
Element: Metal
Color(s): White and Gray
Life Area: Helpful People/Blessings.
Simply stated, Ba Gua is the energy map of any given space that gives you guidance on creating the most harmonious energy flow in your space.
Also Known As: Pakua, Pa Kua
Source: Rodika Tchi
The 8 directions used in the Feng Shui Ba Gua are the following: North, Northeast, East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West, and Northwest. Each direction has an Element, Color, and Life Area associated with it. Below is the summary of the eight feng shui guas.
North (compass reading from 337.5 to 22.5)
Element: Water
Color(s): Blue and Black
Life Area: Career/Path in Life.
Northeast (compass reading from 22.5 to 67.5)
Element: Earth
Color(s): Beige, Light Yelow, and Sandy/Earthy
Life Area: Spiritual Growth/Self-Cultivation.
East (compass reading from 67.5 to 112.5)
Element: Wood
Color(s): Brown and Green
Life Area: Health & Family.
Southeast (compass reading from 112.5 to 157.5)
Element: Wood
Color(s): Brown and Green
Life Area: Prosperity & Abundance.
South (compass reading from 157.5 to 202.5)
Element: Fire
Color(s): Red, Orange, Purple, and Bright Yellow
Life Area: Fame & Reputation.
Southwest (compass reading from 202.5 to 247.5)
Element: Earth
Color(s): Beige, Light Yelow, and Sandy/Earthy
Life Area: Love & Marriage.
West (compass reading from 247.5 to 292.5)
Element: Metal
Color(s): White and Gray
Life Area: Creativity/Children.
Northwest (compass reading from 292.2 to 337.5)
Element: Metal
Color(s): White and Gray
Life Area: Helpful People/Blessings.
Simply stated, Ba Gua is the energy map of any given space that gives you guidance on creating the most harmonious energy flow in your space.
Also Known As: Pakua, Pa Kua
Source: Rodika Tchi
3. Always Look For The Symbolic Tortoise
The back of every house or building benefits from the tortoise effect and these tortoise hills at the back should be rounded, indicating support. When the back tortoise is missing, build a wall, plant some trees or better yet, place an artificial tortoise there to stimulate the chi energy of this celestial creature. If you have a small water pond in your garden, it is very good feng shui to place some tortoises inside the pond. This creates longevity luck for the residents.
Source: Lilian Too's 365 Feng Shui Tips
Source: Lilian Too's 365 Feng Shui Tips
What Is Feng Shui ?
Feng shui is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with the environment. It is a complex body of knowledge that reveals the ways to balance the energies of the environment to assure health, wealth and good fortune for people inhabiting it.
Feng shui, pronounced in English as "fung shway", also known as "Kan-Yu" which means 'The Law of Heaven and Earth’. "Feng" means "wind" and "shui" means "water", literally translates as "wind-water". In Chinese culture gentle wind and clear water have always been associated with good harvest and good health, thus "good feng shui" came to mean good livelihood and fortune, while "bad feng shui" came to mean hardship and misfortune.
Feng Shui is based on the Taoist vision and understanding of nature, particularly on the idea that the land is alive and filled with energy. The ancient Chinese believed that the land's energy could either make or break the kingdom, so to speak. The theories of yin and yang, as well as the five elements, which are some of the basic aspects of a feng shui analysis, also come from Taoism.
Early feng shui relied on astronomy to find correlations between humans and the universe. The goal of feng shui as practiced today is to situate the human built environment on spots with good qi. The "perfect spot" is a location and an axis in time. Some areas are not suitable for human settlement and should be left in their natural state.
The main tools used in a feng shui analysis are the Compass and the Ba-Gua. The Ba-Gua is an octagonal map or grid containing the symbols of the I Ching, the ancient oracle on which Feng Shui is based. It is one of the easiest methods used to ascertain the Feng Shui of any given environment.
The feng shui compass, also called Lo-Pan, is used to access deeper information about the site or the building. It consists of bands of concentric rings arranged around the magnetic needle. "Lo" means "everything" and "Pan" means "bowl", which can be interpreted as the key to mysteries of the universe.
Feng Shui offers a variety of remedies and enhancements to improve people's lives and rectify inauspicious situations. It is extensively used in both home and business environments all over the world. Although some levels of feng shui are easy to understand and apply, the "core" knowledge takes years of study. Just like traditional Chinese medicine, feng shui knowledge is very deep and complex.
Feng shui, pronounced in English as "fung shway", also known as "Kan-Yu" which means 'The Law of Heaven and Earth’. "Feng" means "wind" and "shui" means "water", literally translates as "wind-water". In Chinese culture gentle wind and clear water have always been associated with good harvest and good health, thus "good feng shui" came to mean good livelihood and fortune, while "bad feng shui" came to mean hardship and misfortune.
Feng Shui is based on the Taoist vision and understanding of nature, particularly on the idea that the land is alive and filled with energy. The ancient Chinese believed that the land's energy could either make or break the kingdom, so to speak. The theories of yin and yang, as well as the five elements, which are some of the basic aspects of a feng shui analysis, also come from Taoism.
Early feng shui relied on astronomy to find correlations between humans and the universe. The goal of feng shui as practiced today is to situate the human built environment on spots with good qi. The "perfect spot" is a location and an axis in time. Some areas are not suitable for human settlement and should be left in their natural state.
The main tools used in a feng shui analysis are the Compass and the Ba-Gua. The Ba-Gua is an octagonal map or grid containing the symbols of the I Ching, the ancient oracle on which Feng Shui is based. It is one of the easiest methods used to ascertain the Feng Shui of any given environment.
The feng shui compass, also called Lo-Pan, is used to access deeper information about the site or the building. It consists of bands of concentric rings arranged around the magnetic needle. "Lo" means "everything" and "Pan" means "bowl", which can be interpreted as the key to mysteries of the universe.
Feng Shui offers a variety of remedies and enhancements to improve people's lives and rectify inauspicious situations. It is extensively used in both home and business environments all over the world. Although some levels of feng shui are easy to understand and apply, the "core" knowledge takes years of study. Just like traditional Chinese medicine, feng shui knowledge is very deep and complex.
Monday, August 27, 2007
2. Let The Dragon Be Higher Than The Tiger
For good feng shui, the dragon hills (or buildings if you live in the city) on your left should be slightly higher than the tiger hills on your right. This means inside looking out. If it is not, then a bright light should be installed to "lift the energy of the dragon".
Source: Lilian Too's 365 Feng Shui Tips
Source: Lilian Too's 365 Feng Shui Tips
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Dzi Beads Bring Mystical Chi Energies
To benefit fully from the year's chi energy, people should DEFINITELY consider the latest new discovery in adornments worldwide. At last, people are opening their eyes to the mystical chi energy of Dzi beads - treasure coming out of the Tibet/Chinese border areas of the high mountains. Dzi beads have powerful chi activating properties so they are amazingly powerful amulets. Once known only in the Land of Snows, today a genuine antique Dzi bead from Tibet is so rare and so highly valued, it would be quite beyond the reach of many people. However, genuine Dzi beads are available. The genuine Dzi are agate chalcedony which we already know have potent properties when worn against the body. The Tibetans valued their Dzi according to the designs, and number of eyes that appear on the beads.
The most highly valued are the nine-eyed Dzi beads and since wearing these gunuine quartz chalcedony nine-eyed Dzis, many have been inundated with amazing stories of sudden windfalls and great good fortune coming to those who are wearing them.
According to many Tibetan monks, the nine-eyed Dzi is excellent for attracting and cementing the good fortune years while the wu lou, tortoise and Kuan Yin Dzi are excellent for overcoming illness.
Wearing Dzi beads can promote good fortune and protect against misfortunes, as well as Dzi that enhance your energy levels. Wear these Dzi beads on your wrist to activate your pulse points. For attracting wealth, wear the nine-eyed Dzi on your right wrist. This will attract unearned income and on your left wrist wear it to generate the flow of income.
The most highly valued are the nine-eyed Dzi beads and since wearing these gunuine quartz chalcedony nine-eyed Dzis, many have been inundated with amazing stories of sudden windfalls and great good fortune coming to those who are wearing them.
According to many Tibetan monks, the nine-eyed Dzi is excellent for attracting and cementing the good fortune years while the wu lou, tortoise and Kuan Yin Dzi are excellent for overcoming illness.
Wearing Dzi beads can promote good fortune and protect against misfortunes, as well as Dzi that enhance your energy levels. Wear these Dzi beads on your wrist to activate your pulse points. For attracting wealth, wear the nine-eyed Dzi on your right wrist. This will attract unearned income and on your left wrist wear it to generate the flow of income.
1. Good Feng Shui Starts With Good Locations
Auspicious location are usually slightly elevated places where the "green dragon" on your left nestles gently with the "white tiger" on your right, their bodies curving gently to create an armchair formation. The land is protected at the back by hills that symbolize the "black tortoise", while in the South the presence of the "crimson phoenix" enhances the site. And if, facing this wonderful configuration of hills and mountains there is also a view of meandering or slow moving water; and if the vegetation in the area is also green and luscious, then placing your home here brings an abundance of good fortune. There is enormous wealth for the household for succeeding generations. The first TIP is to try to find such a site.
Source: Lilian Too's 365 Feng Shui Tips
Source: Lilian Too's 365 Feng Shui Tips
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