See the pictures; in fact this is nothing new, other feng shui practitioners have commented on this issue in their books. Two buildings facing each other, one has installed a mirror and opposite building has a canon facing it. (The purpose is to blast the opposite building?) Is such practice required???
These examples are some practice by inexperience feng shui practitioners, which we don’t encourage. It defeats the purpose of implication of feng shui. Feng shui is formulated and developed to help man realize that his or her destiny can be further enhance, to attract good fortune, good health and enormous prosperity. It is not meant to create war among those who wish to apply this noble practice or to offend those who do not believe in it.
Many of my clients has consulted me regarding this matter, some even showed me photos they took when they come across such scenario, but due to most of the photos they captured were from private properties, I am not able to post them in this blog for readers to view, so I hope through this write up I am able to give you a clearer picture of the true purpose of the implication of the subject feng shui. For those out there who also has such experience I welcome you to share it with us, post us a photo and if any of such implication post to be a question or threat to you, we can help by giving you the explanation of it purpose or even perhaps a way to remedy if such practice is creating bad effects to your home.
This issue has also been discussed before, on one occasion my guest and client at my house who was a lawyer and a political figure today, pass this comment which I want to share with my readers, "Little Knowledge Is Dangerous Knowledge", do you agree!
I find this comment make sense, till the next write up on Feng Shui War, good day
Days ago, I finally got the chance to had lunch reunion with my former students. They were with me for a year while they were doing architecture studies in university and now they are all practicing Architects.
During lunch, they shared with me their experiences about feng shui and construction ideas which they apply in their profession. Suddenly, one of them brought up an interesting topic, he said since so much has been written and said about the structure and design of buildings, the five elements, energy/ chi and its connection with feng shui, then why has no one mentioned on the condition of the soil? Is the selection of soil as important too?
This is a good question, as it is as important. I then shared with them my experience years ago in 1980.
One morning, my friend drove me to their house for a feng shui review. On the way he drove passed a construction site for a new housing project which was on white sandy land. I shared with them that the new housing project is not of good feng shui with such soil condition. Because white sandy land has a very weak earth energy and will not produce good chi to the house occupants. 28 years later, the housing area is fully occupied but the trees and plants were not healthy and green. In fact, there are not much trees and plants in sight. The interior and exterior in most houses needed refurbishing. From the shabby condition of the house, the impression was the house occupants could not afford to give their house a face lift. “Why?” you may ask!
Experience this, try holding a handful of sand in your palm, noticed the sand gliding out, we are not able to retain it for long. Next, try to plant with it, of course the plant will not grow well either. Theory is simple, when the soil condition is not fertile, the energy and chi it produces is weak. Naturally, plants will not grow; residents residing in houses constructed on such land condition will not prosper.
Another example, I came across a commercial lot which was burned. I advised my customer not to invest as even remedy method apply to improve the feng shui, the result will not be promising, as the fire has burn the soil of its life essence and with no chi/ energy the land, cannot produce living force to benefit them.
'So, does that mean the burned area cannot be redevelop?'
Oh no, there is a method the developer can use to rejuvenate the energy/ live force to the land before redeveloping it. That's to replace the burn soil with the new soil, meaning, refilling it to 2 metres deep with fresh top soil before reconstruction begins. By doing so plants will grow healthy, residents also will benefit. Isn't it? The application of feng shui can be scientific proven with logic. It must come with common sence.
Slides above show that the developer filled the sandy land with good soil so that when the building constructed, plants and trees will grow. But unfortunately the soil level is not enough as the right level will be 2m deep.
Chi is a life essence, a force where it connects to each and every one of us on earth. This type of soil has life/ energy. It will provide life essence as it is fertile. Any plants or trees will grow well on this soil, therefore if your house/ building is constructed on such condition soil, you too can benefit from the chi it produces.
After the earlier explanation of water and feng shui, I was asked to comments on the placement of aquariums and how it can be connected to the application of feng shui.
In most offices, it is common to hear about the politics and the corporate power struggles that are happening inside. The problems employers encounter each day with their office staff, the lack of cooperation and the list goes on... etc.
Some will wonder if there’s a method or a way that they could apply or use to help ward off such problems. According to the Jiu Gong Yii Kua Feng Shui practiced, placing an aquarium in the correct position/ sector in connection to the five elements will not only eliminate such problem that causes this imbalance, it can at the same time attributes and do activate chi to benefit in other ways than just bringing monetary prosperity.
Tips 1. The Chairman or The Managing Directors of the company will need to find out their personal Kua Number to locate the sector to place the aquarium. 2. Otherwise, they could also use their 4 auspicious directions or sectors to place the aquarium. 3. Placing an aquarium in the phoenix position in a main lobby of an office or building will help to enhance wealth, creating excellent feng shui.
Inauspicious position to place an aquarium 1. Do not place an aquarium in your bedroom. Your bedroom is a place where you need to really sleep and rejuvenate yourself. The aquarium symbolizes movement, when placed in a bedroom it can lead to suffer of losses, creating bad health, bad luck and bad career luck. 2. Do not place an aquarium at the west position, your white tiger sector (白虎方), your adultery sector (桃花方) and your five devils sector (五鬼方). When placed at these inauspicious positions it will cause one to suffer losses and face back stabbing from others. 3. The water level in the aquarium must not be higher than the owner’s chest as this will drown the owner.
The Right Fish for Your Aquarium To help enhance wealth and to provide saviour (贵人), goldfish or carp is highly recommended. For big corporate, the arowana will be more suitable.
Fishy Story In 1996, I was invited to do a review for Mr and Mrs X’s house. It is about 10,000 sq feet. In the main living room, Mr X has an aquarium which houses a beautiful arowana fish. As I go through the feng shui chart with Mr X, I explained to him that his personal kua, Shin Kung on the right hand side of the living room is his adultery position (桃花方). As he had placed an aquarium there, I suggest he remove the aquarium to the left hand side of the room to avoid the house occupants of committing adultery. Mr X immediately instructed his maids to move the aquarium. I left Mr X’s house after completing my review. Two years after my appointment with Mr X, I met Mrs X at a shopping complex while I was doing my shopping. She greeted me and we stopped for a chat. I asked her on their well being and this is what she answered me. “Mr Kueh, how accurate your review at my house is. After your review, I went to stay with my daughter (who is studying in UK) for 6 months. When I returned home, I noticed the aquarium was back at its original position. I didn’t think it was important then but after awhile I noticed some change in my husband. When I confronted him, he confessed to me that while I was away, he had an affair with his secretary and today he had a mistress. I was sad that this had happened but in a way, I had to admit that the placing of the aquarium is important as you had earlier warned us that adultery will happen if it’s place in that position. You see my husband move the aquarium back to the right hand side of the main living room while I was away." Mrs X bade me farewell after that. For me, I was sad that people choose to abuse the application of feng shui. It is a noble practised meant to help to enhance one living standard and not to abused it. So practised it wisely!
