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Ba Zhai - 8 Mansions Feng Shui - Arne Walter Ziems
Dedicated to serve as an inspiration for happy families
This book is part of the series Othala Feng Shui Reflections
More books are available in the series „Othala Translations of Chinese Classics":
Table of Contents
Ba Zhai - 8 Mansions Feng Shui
Acknowledgements:
History of classical literature on Ba Zhai
Introduction
Landforms and environmental influences
Bright Halls, doors and pathways
Part I - Theory
Mathematics
Early Heaven Bagua
Later Heaven Bagua
The five elemental phases
Fire 火
Earth 土
Metal 金
Water 水
Wood 木
Five elemental phases interactions
Vitality or Strength of the five phases
Flying the Stars of the Lo Shu
Yin and Yang
Symbology of the eight Gua
Palaces and Stars
The Eight Palaces
The Eight Wandering Stars
4 auspicious Wandering Stars
4 inauspicious Wandering Stars
Distribution of the Wandering Stars by palace
Palace and Star Interactions
Distributing Stars by door and by high room
Method for door, or secondary method:
Method for high room or tertiary method:
Human Ming, or Ming Gua
Calculating Ming Gua using birth year
Calculating the Ming Gua for Males
Calculating the Ming Gua for Females
Table for looking up the Ming Gua
West Group and East Group
Part II – Application
Facing and Sitting
Connecting the Gua
Plot of land versus house as reference point
Ming Tang as reference point
House Gua versus Human Gua
Connecting Yin and Yang of the palace Guas
Bringing it together
Time aspects of the Stars
Individual functional items
Doors
Bed
Stove
Toilet, Workshops, suppressing areas
Various systems merged into Ba Zhai
Nayin or Melodic Elements
Outlook
Acknowledgements:
A big Thank you!
goes to these people for directly or indirectly providing useful information or help:
Terence Chan for translating the classic text of 8 Mansions Bright Mirror
. Hung Hin Cheong for his paper Classical Ba Zhai. A trilogy: Door, Bed and Stove
(2007). Alvin Chua, Website: http://chinesefivearts.blogspot.com/ and Jovan Tay, Website: https://xkfs.art/ both for giving valuable hints, and not the least Clara Parolini for formatting the calculation of Ming Gua by birth year
History of classical literature on Ba Zhai
The Yellow Emperors classic of sites
by Huangdi - ca. 2600 BCE
Entering Earth Eye
by Gu Tuo the Elder - 990
4 Books of 8-Mansions
by Yi He - 1601
The Complete Book of 8-Mansions
by Huang Yi Feng - 1610
The Chou Shu Door Opening Method
by Chang Pin Lin - 1739
Golden Light Star Arrival Classic
by Jin Wen Rong - 1779
3 Essentials of Yang Dwellings
by Zhao Jiu Feng - 1786
8-Mansions Bright Mirror
by Ruo Guan - 1789
Introduction
I suggest you read through the book in one go to adapt to its flow, then re-read it for the ideas.
The original publisher of 8 Mansions Bright Mirror (Ba Zhai Ming Jing) states in his foreword he did not believe in Feng Shui and only did after he deployed the methods, took case studies and verified the effect of the eight mansion system. He then says he could not dare to not publish it, because he saw the beneficial effects on suffering families. He writes that he was taught the system by the Daoist Monk Ruo Guan, the origins of the system are said to come down from Yang Yunsong (841-907 BCE).
In the second foreword of the book, which author is unknown, it is said that the effects of inauspicious Stars cannot affect a virtuous family and an auspicious Stars will not respond when the family is acting evil. In other words, bad Feng Shui does not affect sages much. However, most of us are not yet sages nor are most of us purely evil villains. We better what we can and one aspect is that of Feng Shui.
Feng Shui is a blend of its underlying fields of Geography, Geology, Physics, Mathematics, Psychology, Art and Symbolism and for some schools also Animism or Religion. At its core it is universal and apolitical, yet the effect sometimes is used for different power politics. The Subsection of Feng Shui called the Ba Zhai (8 houses) system is meant for civilian houses, not so much for offices or political entities. It is meant to foster harmonious relationships among the family members as well as for the long standing success of the family. From a theoretical viewpoint it pulls several different schools and theories of the various Feng Shui schools under one hat to achieve the goal of family success. It is in no way a puristic approach to Feng Shui and it demands of the practitioner the knowledge of different systems and their approach. As I understand it, it is meant as a ready to use
method of Feng Shui. Many contemporary schools of Feng Shui pull their teachings out of this book, in many cases watering down the content and methods until a point of having little effect. My attempt here is to share my interpretation of the methods and how I think they may be best used for effect.
Plotting the eight sectors by simultaneously disregarding outer and inner forms as well as water-methods etc. is not tolerable. The methods described in Ba Zhai Ming Jing, the latest
Classic from 1789 already are simplified, further simplification would not really help.
The bulk of information for this book is drawn from 8 Mansions Bright Mirror
. When I refer to this book I will use the name Ming Jing
or Bright Mirror
. I gave myself the freedom to interpret basic ideas as well as various possible ways of application. I feel that there is an immense lack in the modern Feng Shui world to discuss different concepts and ideas. If normal
people are being taught Feng Shui then that Feng Shui should have effect. The enlightened line holders of true schools are just not that many to serve the population of an overcrowded planet. In my study of Geology, one of the best professors mourned about why most professors would not go and attend the lectures of the other professors. As if they lost face by doing so. Other than as a geologist, as a Feng Shui practitioner I am not allowed no share particular methods, because these are trade secrets
. Yes Feng Shui is a business too, the same as Geology is, but in Geology there is continuous advance in serving the public. Is there in Feng Shui? So another reason to write this book is to gain in knowledge myself by presenting some of my ideas in the open. Ming Jing already is in the open and available in English, that is why this book is based on it.
It may be interesting to note that the modern day Feng Shui Master Yap Cheng Hai (+2014), who claims to have a base of 50000 (in words: fifty-thousand) case studies which he gained by conducting Feng Shui consultations himself, by his case studies found that the main door should be the real key in using the Ba Zhai method and that not the location of the Stars is most important, but the direction the door as well as the person facing the four auspicious Stars. He was a great advocate of door tilting too. He also disputed that a house should have an own Gua, because it is not active. Furthermore he indicated that the Classics written in the Qing dynasty on the matter of Ba Zhai Feng Shui were falsifications of the true Ba Zhai method and were mainly written to spoil the Feng Shui of people, suggesting a giant false flag attack
on real Feng Shui knowledge during that time. Indeed the placement of stove in the later classical literature opposed the suggestions of earlier classics, on many points however the Classics agree on what is what. He died at age 88, assuming he started at age 20 with his consultations, he must from then on have done two consultations each and every day of the year along with all the other activities he is known for and then evaluating the case studies after some months