Category Archives: Feng Shui

How to Feng Shui Your Living Room For More Energy

Even If You Have No Knack for Design… Feel Disorganized… and Have Kids or Dogs Who “Mess It Up Anyway…”

Believe It Or Not, You Don’t Need To Spend A Lot of Money To Make It Look and Feel Great!

New Class by Jenny Nakao Hones, a professional interior designer and an experienced and talented feng shui consultant.

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Which Feng Shui books to follow

There are literally hundreds of Feng Shui books on the market. Some blend truths and myths but many have only a distant connection to the essential core of Feng Shui. There are also books that refer to different schools of Feng Shui with conflicting thoughts, making it difficult for people to discern the validity of information.

So many Feng Shui books and teachings differ from each other, how to know which one to follow?

It is challenging to sift gold from sand. Even among the 800 or so volumes of Feng Shui classics in Chinese, many mix the core concepts of Feng Shui with customs, traditions, folklore, and even superstitions that do not necessarily contain universal value.

Indeed, finding the source of information that resonates with common sense and is universally applicable is a challenge for those interested in Feng Shui.

True Feng Shui knowledge follows natural principles and resonates with common sense. If those concepts presented resonate with you right away, most likely they are valid concepts.

Truth has power. If something is valid and truthful, you can feel it.

However, it is important to keep an open mind, free from preconceived ideas. Test the concepts in real life before you accept them as global truth.

Feng Shui and the Coronavirus Pandemic

Many Blue Mountain feng shui students in different parts of the world are asking me “how do we see and handle the coronavirus pandemic from a feng shui perspective?” I was surprised at the question, as feng shui is about living environment design. It is about life design and has no obvious connection to this pandemic.

However, since the fundamental feng shui principle is based on natural principles — natural laws, the highest guidance for human living, then maybe we can try to see the pandemic from a natural law perspective.

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Fengshui of architecture

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#41: The Role of Architecture as an Art Form

We used to discuss what is beauty? – the subjective and objective sides of beauty, and the combination of both.

Regardless of the philosophy of the issue, we have to admit that pure art and architectural art are very different from each other. For one thing, architecture is a very complicated art form, because it has elements of many arts combined in it. But more important is how architecture relates to the public.

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Fengshui orientaion compass

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#40: Is Orientation the Fifth Feature?

In earlier postings we mentioned the Four Features of Feng Shui, and that they apply at any scale, from the largest to the smallest.

Some readers have pointed out that many Feng Shui books talk about Five Features – and that the fifth is orientation.

In fact, that fifth feature came along much later, when people tried to apply astrological ideas to Feng Shui. This was the beginning of what we now call the Cosmological School.

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#38: Five Element Theory and Feng Shui

In earlier postings, we’ve said that Natural Law was one of the main pillars of Feng Shui. Natural Law consists of the Yin-Yang theory and Five Element theory.

Even though the Five Element theory is concerned with dynamic transformation, the mechanisms of change, it is still associated with specific things: colors, forms, seasons, and so on. And Feng Shui is basically about form.

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Dr Hsu Fengshui talk 36

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#36: Looking at a Building is Like Looking at a Person

In an earlier article, we said that everything in the universe is composed of Chi. It has matter, Chi energy, and information (consciousness or thought). These three aspects exist together.

Chi energy can be recognized through form, that is, the material manifestation. Different forms manifest different Chi. When the form is wholesome, the Chi is wholesome.

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