Is it about 4 good directions?

With reference to my earlier article, "Learning Feng Shui", where i mentioned that we only need to adjust the work desk to see results instead of placing items on the work desk, someone asks me if it was about facing one of the four good directions, aka, 8-Mansion Feng Shui, aka Ba Zhai?

Unfortunately, it is not about facing any of the good directions related to Ba Zhai. Any directions can be a good direction. It depends on your environment and location.

What is known in the market about Ba Zhai is that it has 4 auspicious and 4 in-auspicious directions. We are all encouraged to face one of the 4 auspicious directions, depending on what type of energy we want to tap on. For example, if you are looking to create more opportunities to improve wealth and reputation, you should sleep or sit facing your Sheng Qi (Life Generating) direction.

In the so-called advanced Ba Zhai, in each of the 8 directions, it has sub-directions and they include good and bad directions. This is to say that even in one of the good directions, it has bad Qi direction that you may face as well.

If only life is that simple, everyone on this planet earth just needs to ensure we face our good directions and there will be no poverty, hunger, war, discrimination, etc. People on earth will be a happy camper with no worries.

Is this possible?

Ba Zhai has it uses and it is not what is being taught to the general public today. The main-stream Ba Zhai is at best "safety feng shui" and to provide positive thinking for people who needs it. This is to say that one need not go over-board to change everything at home or office. Husband and wife need not sleep in different rooms. A couple need not sleep smelling each other's feet when sleeping on the same bed because each one belongs to a different group.

Pure Unbroken Lineage Method Chant

Here is a special message from Master Vin Leo of VinLeo.com (www.vinleo.com)

Master Vin Leo is taking on a project to help promote the sale of compact-discs (CDs) for one of his spiritual masters, Geshe Tenzin Zopa, who is the resident teacher at Losang Dragpa Center (LDC). The sales proceeds will go to the TSUM Himalayan projects (Tsum Project Website) and other charity purposes.

The CDs are recordings of prayers and pujas that helps inspire and bring benefits to those who need them, just by listening to the chants. The chants are based on traditional, proper and pure unbroken lineage method for the entire sequence of prayers.

There are 4 CDs in each set and it consists of Guru Puja, Tara Puja, Medicine Puja and Protector Puja. Each chanting of the Pujas are for different purpose. For more details of the CDs, please visit the following website.

Website: Prayers and Pujas CD Recordings Website

For more information, kindly contact Geshe Zopa personally at tztzopa@yahoo.com or Vin Leo at vin@vinleo.com.

Your support in this charity project is very well appreciated.

Wet and Fertile Singapore

This is an image of Singapore-Kallang River looking from above. This is the area where the Integrated-Resort (IR) will be and the existing financial-business hub of Singapore are located.

One quick look of the image, it is like a woman's reproductive system. Whoever designed this Marina area must have thought really hard to ensure Singapore will always be productive and keeps growing.

One of the interesting features is the Marina Barrage. It is located at the mouth of the river that borders the sea and the river. It offers a host of water solutions to a small limited resource island. This whole area will eventually be a fresh-water reservoir. It will be the 15th reservoir that will meet 10% of Singapore's water needs.

Besides that, it is a tidal barrier for flood prevention, designated recreational venue, and will also feature a visitor's centre and restaurant. This whole concept was first conceived almost 20 years ago by MM Lee Kuan Yew, followed by 10-year massive plan to clean up Singapore river. What visions they have!

With these already in place, do you know how to select a property or an office space using Feng Shui? How do you go about looking for an office that will help ensure your business grows. I may have the answer just for you.

Remember, if Singapore grows, so should your business. The land is already fertile.

Always keep that in mind.

Feng Shui Expert Pledges Funds

I was reading an article from a Malaysian online newspaper today. It was reported that two China-based Feng Shui experts pledged to donate every single sen (cents) of their consultation fees to help earthquake survivors in Sichuan.

It is interesting to note one comment that highlights the Master has done many consultations for large corporations, celebrities, etc, and he did not use the feng shui skills to earn a living.

Read more about it

Online Paper: Click Here
PDF Version: FengShui Experts Donate.pdf

Do we need to tilt doors?

Sometimes when you enter a building or a house, you will notice that the main door is not in parallel with the tiles on the floor. They are designed to slant at a certain angle, to face a certain direction. If you were to check with the hosts, they will probably tell you it was recommended by some Feng Shui masters.

Slanting or tilting of doors are typical trademark of San Yuan Masters, more specifically, the Xuan Kong Master Practitioner. They are designed to tap onto certain auspicious Qi to serve its intended purpose. The reason behind the slant is because the electromagnetism energy are never the same when measured at different places, even though they are the same parallel wall.

For example, you have a wall that is about 10 meters wide. Try measuring the wall on the extreme left, middle and extreme right using a compass or luopan, if you have one. Record those readings and compare. Chances are they are all different.

Therefore, as it is very important to a Xuan Kong practitioner to get all doors to face the same exact direction within the same facade, they have to tilt all doors to meet this requirement. Hence, the tilted doors.


We were at the Bright Hill Temple, Singapore recently. You will notice that all the doors are tilted. If you were to take measurements, all the doors faces the same compass direction. Doors tilted, yet same direction. Amazing isn't it?

If you love to have tilted doors for your home or office, then probably, this method of Feng Shui Application is suitable for you.

But what if you hated it? Is there another alternate Feng Shui method that do not require tilting of doors and yet, produces the same results? The answer is YES.

As part of our research, we carried out a Feng Shui audit of the Bright Hill temple using a different technique and we concluded that without having to tilt all the doors, the temple could still achieve its intended purposes successfully. And...., let it be known, we are not using Flying Star or 8 Mansion, at all. They are only used for other purposes.

If tilted door is NOT your cup of tea.......You have alternative.

Learning Feng Shui

Ask around any Feng Shui enthusiast what Feng Shui books they have in their library, they will be glad to rattle off some popular names and proudly show you their collection of books. I can safely say 80 percent of their collections will be about the art of placing items at strategic locations to harness Qi. This is because 80 percent of the Feng Shui books out there are all about the art of placing items for prosperity and health.

There are many good marketers who can sell ice to Eskimos. Many thanks to them, Feng Shui became very popular to the general public within a short period of time. Even though this art has been around for many years, not much information can be found in major bookshops or the local library. All these changed with the arrival of New-Age Feng Shui Consultants.

As many of you know, this art has been passed down from generation to generation but to only people who are entrusted to keep this art alive and trusted to use it responsibly. The real secrets are not revealed wholesale to those who have the potential to exploit it for financial gain at the expense of the ignorant public. Based on this alone, can you imagine how much of the information found in the general public today can actually be used for effective results?

The concepts and its application has been watered down so much that only some of it can be used, if at all. You must be in terribly good luck to be able use it and produce some excellent results.

Begin by taking some time to look for a Master Teacher who is both passionate about the subject AND genuine in wanting to teach and share with students who wish to learn. Starting on a wrong foot can be very costly in terms of time and money. Be forewarned. If you are considering learning from high-profilers, you may want to give it some extra thoughts for reasons that is not appropriate for me to mention here.

Most of practitioners today starts off by going round in circles until they find a light that leads them to the correct path. If you are lucky, you may just go round in one circle. If not, you are probably still in the circle trying to find the light. Some practitioners are still in the circle. Many gave up while trying hard to find it and failed. Hence, starting off on wrong footing can be costly.

After you have completed your circles, you will realize that Feng Shui is a very basic art. Everything boils down to the fundamentals. It can produce results within a short time and it can last for a long time.

Unfortunately, to get to the fundamentals, you need to sift through a lot of so-called advanced theories that does not even explain its proper application.

I am most amazed when I see Feng Shui ornament lying on a work desk. Some spend thousands of dollars because the ornaments can generate certain Qi to help in their endeavors. We can easily adjust just their work desk alone and still achieve the same results. Need to buy anything? Nope, just coffee will do.

As part of the learning process, everyone needs to go through at least one circle. We need to be exposed to the in-effective system in order to appreciate the effective system.

Are The Classics Wrong?

I was involved in a Feng Shui project recently in a foreign country that took us more than 3 hours to get there by plane. This place is a beautiful island resort, with hilly terrain and beautiful mountain surrounding it.

In many classical text, landform embraces are essential to ensure that Qi is “well-protected”, limiting the Qi escaping from an area and to protect the occupants from negative forces.

The quality of Qi in an area depends on the quality of the landform embrace. There are many types of landform embraces and the most common embrace discussed is the ‘Green Dragon’ and ‘White Tiger’.

The Green Dragon embrace are typically ‘mountain’ formation that runs on the left side and the White Tiger on the right side of an area under Feng Shui investigation. Imagine your left and right arm hugging or embracing someone. It is said that Green Dragon governs wealth and White Tiger governs nobility.

It is also mentioned that the Green Dragon embrace influences the man to be the dominant gender while the White Tiger embrace influences the woman to be the dominant gender.

In the old days, men are supposed to be the dominant gender and this is the reason the Green Dragon on the left needs to be higher and bigger than the White Tiger on the right.

Each mountain formation comes in various shapes and sizes. The shape of a mountain will influence the occupants living in that area. Each shape represent a certain “Stars” and given names such as Tan Lang (Greedy Wolf), Ju Men (Huge Door), etc. Each of the stars will also exert a certain amount of influence pertaining to wealth, health, recognition, reputation, etc.



Back to this resort island project. This village in the photo is just next to the holiday resort that we were working on (see pic above). Here we have a beautiful Tan Lang mountain, situated on the left side of the fishing village (the Green Dragon), with practically no embrace on the right side (no White Tiger embrace).

There is a volcanic mountain on the left side of the picture (not in photo) providing the back support to the village. The sea front of the fishing village, the water is clear and calm as they are protected by the reefs and the adjacent island.

From the front view of the village, with hands stretching out, you could ‘touch’ the peak of another Tan Lang mountain located some distance away. This forms the “Table Mountain” for the village.

With such a landform ‘configuration’, many would jump into conclusion that this piece of land is very prosperous and the chief of the village would be a man.



Contrary to popular believe, as you can see, this area is still not well-developed and the chief of the village is a woman. How could this happen? Did our ancient text got it all wrong?

A lot of times, books that we read today do not cover the complete explanation of the theories they introduced. 99% of books in the market do not cover real application of Feng Shui. Even if they do, most applications are inaccurate. This explains the 'sometimes work, sometimes don't work' syndrome.

The secrets of the ancient art is buried deep in the classical text and it takes a lot of work and perseverance to decipher the coded text. We need to learn from a real Master who knows the art extremely well. How can we tell if a Master knows his stuff? This is another topic for another day.

Time to wake up People! Are we all awake yet?

Learn To Write Chinese Characters

There are many students out there who does not read or write Chinese and yet, they are very interested to learn the art of Chinese Metaphysics. To help students learn to read and write the basic Chinese characters related to Chinese Metaphysics, I have prepared the links to webpages that will teach students how to write the Chinese characters. We will start with the 5 Elements, followed by the Ten Heavenly Stems and Twelve Earthly Branches.

Fire - 火, Earth - 土，Metal - 金, Water - 水, Wood - 木

Jia - 甲, Yi - 乙, Bing - 丙, Ding - 丁, Wu - 戊,
Ji - 己, Geng - 庚, Xin - 辛, Ren - 壬, Gui - 癸

Yin - 寅, Mao - 卯, Chen - 辰, Si - 巳, Wu - 午, Wei - 未,
Shen - 申, You - 酉, Xu - 戌, Hai - 亥, Zi - 子, Chou - 丑,

Credit to authors of http://lost-theory.org/ocrat/