ERRORS IN COMPASS DATE TECHNIQUES.

Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem, Attacks Compass Methods

In the previous article it is noted that Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem, attacks the Compass schools' use of the 24 Mountains as a water method to determine the auspiciousness of a site.

The rejection of the Compass schools' 24 Mountains water method was made by a commentator about Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem

• More is believe different saying and foolish right word.
  So is produce new inauspicious and disappear own fortune.
  If not mountain auspicious water auspicious cave auspicious.
  Why have a lot of disaster.
  How can it be known year inauspicious month inauspicious day inauspicious.
  Violates it to deceive certainly.
  Comment to Xue Xin Fu Book 2, Chapter 5).

The passage relates to the Luan Tuo determination of the auspiciousness of the mountain, water and hsueh. However, people were adopting a different method which Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem regarded as a foolish method which can destroy the good fortune of the site. This dangerous different method involved the use of date selection, a popular technique in the Compass schools.

There are a wide range of "Date selection" methods in the Compass schools. Examples of those pertaining to the auspiciousness of the site are as described briefly below:

• 1. 8 Mansions: based on the birth dates, people are classified into East and West groups. It is claimed that houses with East facings will be auspicious for those of the East group while West facings will be inauspicious for them.

  2. Both Xuan Kong Fei Xing and Xuan Kong Liu Fa have different contradictory calculations methods to determine the auspiciousness of a site. There are the Fu Ma San Ban Gua series, Zheng Shen and Ling Shen, Fan Fu Yin, etc. There are differences due to different ways of calculating the Yun periods.

  3. In Yin Feng Shui, a narrowness as small as 1 degree can be used to determine installation dates to make a tomb site auspicious.

All these date methods are rejected by Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem as dangerous foolishness capable of destroying good fortune.

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tags: Feng Shui
Countesy: Prof. Dr. Ong Hean-Tatt

ERRORS IN COMPASS FENG SHUI

"Compass techniques wrongly used to overthrow Luan Tuo determination of hsueh."


Startling Testimony of XUE XIN FU, SNOW HEART POEM:
ERRORS IN COMPASS FENG SHUI.
Compass techniques wrongly used
to overthrow Luan Tuo determination of hsueh.

Prof. Dr. Ong Hean-Tatt 10th July 2008

Confucius as Original Feng Shui Master Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem, has a remarkable passage indicating that Confucius was the creator of the original Feng Shui texts!: Even though calling water, how to get with water. Who know sage Confucius' heart? To the greatest extend, double (alternative) book being inferior to no book. Some more, want to leave sharp vision. Xue Xin Fu 440-441 (Book 4, Chapter 4). The passage shows that during the Tang dynasty the Feng Shui masters attributed the correct Feng Shui lore to Confucius and that there was already a contradictory Feng Shui doctrine going around. Yes, Confucius was a Feng Shui master and he wrote down his Feng Shui doctrines into at least some book! What was this Feng Shui doctrine which opposes what Confucius taught about Feng Shui? Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem, Attacks Compass Methods The fourth and last Book 4 of Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem, contains several passages attacking a group of wrong Feng Shui doctrines. One pertinent remarkable passage is: Twenty four mountains. Mountain names too complicated. Thirty six caves. Cave method how winding. Ancestral temple's water method misleading people. Five elements mountain luck/fortune have accuracy. Xue Xin Fu 381-383 (Book 4, Chapter 4). The passage clearly condemns the use of the 24 Mountains in a water method. It was a water method used to identify the "ancestral temple", i.e. the hsueh or Ming Tang. The use of 24 Mountains in connection with a method method is characteristic of the Compass schools. Yes, Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem, is attacking principles important even in today's Compass schools. The auspicious location must be identified through the Luan Tuo methods, with physical features conforming to the Four Heraldic Beasts as vital. But the Compass schools are using alternative methods claiming to detect whether a site is auspicious or not. For example, the Xuan Kong Compass schools compute Time through the 24 Mountains to locate the Zheng Shen and Ling Shen which vary with Time. As such, the water location,vis Ling Shen, will have different locations depending on the date. However, such a changeable water location determined by the Compass method will often contradict the Luan Tuo identification that the water mouth must be at the frontage at the South. Thus, where the Luan Tuo says that a site is auspicious or not, the Compass water method is liable to contradict the Luan Tuo diagnosis.

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tags: Feng Shui; Courtesy article quoted from Prof. Dr. Ong Hean-Tatt

CONFUCIUS AS CREATOR OF FENG SHUI

The Debate

Some regard the Tang Feng Shui text Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem, as the most important Luan Tuo document. It is a pity that practitioners do not read or understand this valuable over 1,000 years old ancient Feng Shui text.

I had completed a deep exciting research study of the Tang Feng Shui text Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem, when a particular passage in the poem creates a nagging thought which kept throbbing in my mind. At this time, I had also studied several other ancient Feng Shui texts, e.g. Han Lung Jing, Yi Lung Jing, Tian Yu Jing, Tu Tien Bao Chou Jing, Rui Di Yen, Qing Nang Jing, Qing Nang Xu, Qing Nang Aow Yi, Tsih King, Zhangshu, Huang Di Nei Ching. Of course, long ago I had already studied the Confucian and Huai Nan Zi classics.

am aware that many Feng Shui masters had came away from these classics, bewildered at their difficulties at penetrating the meanings of the ancient texts. One well known Feng Shui master rightly said that only a person with good knowledge of Chinese culture and history can hope to unravel the age old secrets.

The thought had taken shape through a few years. It is the recognition that modern Feng Shui practitioners are unaware that it was Confucius who penned down the first Feng Shui texts! The modern Feng Shui practitioners are also unaware that the writers of the scattered ancient Feng Shui texts were actually commenting on what Confucius had written about Feng Shui.

The remarkable thing is that the writer of Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem, stated that much of what are in Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem, actually originated from Confucius! The pivotal passage is:


Even though calling water, how to get with water.
Who know sage Confucius' heart?
To the greatest extend, double (alternative) book being inferior to no book.
Some more, want to leave sharp vision.
Xue Xin Fu 440-441 (Book 4, Chapter 4).


The passage above is profound and full of significant serious implications for modern Feng Shui.

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ERRORS IN COMPUTATION OF FENG SHUI AND ASTROLOGICAL YEARS

ISSUE OF PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES
Prof. Dr. Ong Hean-Tatt 10th January 2008


Introduction
Most are using the wrong Year Sign for both Feng Shui and astrology purposes.
As each Chinese New Year approaches, there would be a spate of forecasts about the coming year by both astrologers and Feng Shui masters. The forecasts can be conflicting or do not fit what eventually happened in the said year. There can be good reasons why this is so, which are generally that the current masters failed to take into account the "precession of the Equinoxes" in their dating methods!

Shift of Full Cycle through 12 Zodiac Signs Every 25,800 Years

The rotational axis of Earth wobbles, making a full circle through the 12 Zodiac signs once every 25,800 years. This is known as the "precession of the Equinoxes". The Vernal Equinox point is where the ecliptic intersects with the Celestial Equator. It is the point when the Sun stands on the first day of Spring.

Some 2,000 years ago this intersection point was seen against the background of the stars of Aries the Ram. Since that time, this point has always been referred to as "The first point of Aries"... nowadays the intersection point is seen against the background stars of Pisces, the Fishes. This is due to a movement called the precession of the Equinoxes, caused by a top-like wobble of the Earth. In another 2,000 years the first point of Aries will be in Aquarius, the Water Carrier, another 20 centuries will bring it to Capricornus, the Seagoat, and so on around the Zodiac until after 25,800 years it will be back again in Aries. (Staal 1961p.39-40).

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