Question on wife beater and Bazi

A question from my "4P Bootcamp' discussion list:

"Ken, is there anything in a 4P chart that could show whether a man is prone to violence eg. domestic violence?"

This is an interesting but complicated question. It involves legal system too. For example, in Singapore, if you beat up your wife, the government will cane your ass, so husbands there will not beat up their wives even if their 4P show they may. For other "civilized" countries, besides 4P factors, it will become educational (and social class) question. Generally speaking, working class husbands are more likely to beat up their wives.

To figure out if a guy will beat up his wife or not, you need to check which stars affect personality negatively. Man with too many peer stars (bi-jian/ jie-cai) is likely to be an ass (selfish, stubborn) is one. Man with too many shang-guan (output or talent) is another. Man with many qi-sha (power star) with no control is prone to violence too, not only just beating up wife.

You also need to look at wife's chart-- chart with zheng-guan and qi-sha (power stars) "mixing up" and is also "unfavorable" , she is likely to be bully by man. Personally, I think the woman's chart determines if she will be beaten or not. Certain female chart will attract specific type of man. You see it all the time by observing celebrities.

This topic can easily fill a volume--- it will be treated in detail in:
"Applied 4P: wealth & marrige" .


Ken Lai

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The man who is both a Feng Shui genius AND a Feng Shui idiot

Is it possible for someone to be a Feng Shui genius AND Feng Shui idiot at the same time?

A case in point would be Nina Wang's $13 billion estate legal case in Hong Kong.

Tony Chan, Nina Wang's "secret lover", claims that Nina had paid him US$30M in cash and eventually willed her whole estate to him because of "love".

Nina's original heir, Chinachem Charity foundation claims that Nina paid US$30M to Tony for his "Feng Shui services" and NOT out of "love".

Each side of the litigating party has found their own "expert Feng Shui witness" to testify about the "prowness" or "lack of prowness" of Tony Chan's Feng Shui knowledge.

Tony Chan has hired the world famous traditional/ classical Feng Shui master Mr. YYZ. Based on Tony's Feng Shui practices of burning real paper money, digging of "Feng Shui holes", burying of ritualistic objects and Tony's secret Feng Shui manuscript, MR. YYZ concludes that Tony is "a Feng Shui master who does not know Feng Shui".

This conclusion is exactly what Tony's lawyer wants--- that Tony Chan does not know much about Feng Shui and hence, it is his charm or Nina's love that the latter willed her estate to Tony.

Incidentially, Mr. YYZ is also the co-author of "The complete idiot guide to Feng Shui" book.

Chinachem Charity has solicited the service of a Daoist Feng Shui master Mr. Szeto. 80% of the Macau casino Feng Shui jobs were done by him. He also hosts a few occult and supernatural cable TV shows in Hong Kong. So Mr. Szeto has the "home field advantage" and name-recognition here.

Mr. Szeto did not talk low about Tony Chan's Feng Shui practices. Instead, he explains the hidden meanings and rationale of each ritual objects used by Tony. Obviously, Tony does not do traditional but ritualistic Feng Shui.

Mr. Szeto has stopped short of saying Tony is a Feng Shui genius. After all, who in Feng Shui history has made more money than Tony Chan? Even Mr. Szeto has made a lot less than him!

So, did these two Feng Shui expert witnesses tell the truth?

In my opinion, both did tell the truth BASED on their own special perspective or bias. A traditional-trained Feng Shui master will definitely testify that someone who practice ritualistic Feng Shui is NOT real (or traditional) Feng Shui. It is just weird that Tony Chan's lawyers had hired a traditional Feng Shui master instead of a ritualistic one.

This case illustrates the diversity of Feng Shui practices and problems in defining what is "real Feng Shui". I think the business of "expert Feng Shui witness" will be a short-lived one.


Ken Lai

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Which Feng Shui Credential Matters in Court?

Which one of the following Feng Shui credentials is most important to get the judge listen in court?

1. famous lineage
2. intelligent persons who have learned Feng Shui by self-study
3. years of experience doing Feng Shui
4. government registration/ certification

We can get the answer by observing the latest battle between the two Feng Shui expert witnesses in Nina Wang's $13 Billion estate lawsuit in Hong Kong.

Mr. Szeto, the expert Feng Shui witness of Chinachem charity, is registered with China government and has 30 years of experience in Feng Shui and have done 400+ related ritual ceremonies.

Mr. YYZ, the Feng Shui expert witness of Tony Chan (the secret lover of Nina Wang), reported that 90% of his Feng Shui knowledge is from books or self-study.

Do you think who the judge will listen to?

Here is a Chinese newspaper report of the situation in court:

http://news.mingpao.com/20090711/gaa3.htm

The judge had listened to Mr. Szeto's testimony. Szeto was interrogated by Chan's lawyer for copying info from a Taiwan religious website in Szeto's Feng Shui report.

Mr. YYZ had made some comments about Tony Chan's lack of real Feng Shui knowledge and got "cut short" when the judge found out his Feng Shui knowledge was learned from books.

I don't mean to slight either lineage-trained or self-studied Feng Shui professionals here-- there are cases of successful Feng Shui people trained under such conditions. But in court, it seems any certification that is non-governmental or not legally based-- are next to useless.

If you want to be a Feng Shui expert witness, you need to get some sort of government registration/ certification and not wasting your money for ANY certifications that are granted by individual/s or private organizations, including the ones granted by yours truly--- me.


Ken Lai
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A conversation on the Chinese character "hate"

Ken says:
Tell you something interesting--- the Chinese character "HATE" (恨 hèn) has the heart prefix and GEN suffix.

Ken says:
Heart prefix means heart or "thought", GEN suffix as in the Gen trigram, which means stagnation or stopped. When you hate, your heart stops.

Ken says:
When you kick away the heart prefix, then you stop hating! The word is no longer "hate".

Friend says:
Interesting.

Friend says:
Stopping the heart

Friend says:
Pretty much correct

Friend says:
Actually westerners talk about mind. Easterners talk about xin or heart. But they are talking about the same thing.

Ken says:
Yes.

Friend says:
In the end, it is neither.

Friend says:
Because mind is associated with brain. Heart is associated with feelings and the physical heart.

Friend says:
The thing that is discussed is actually a formless thing, almost like a ghost or water.

Friend says:
Water has no form until you put it in a container.

Friend says:
Same with conscious awareness.

Friend says:
Enlightenment simply means free-- not attached to the container.

Friend says:
That's why Lao Zi talks about behaving like water.

Ken says:
Bruce Lee liked to say something similar, "Open your mind, be water, be formless, be shapeless. If water is poured into a cup, it has the shape of a cup. If water is poured into a teapot, it has the shape of a teapot."

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Bazi and Shopping

Get your attention?

On June 6, I went shopping for stationary and craft materials. I had shopped 4 stores and I had 50% off coupons for two of the stores.

In one store that no coupon can be used, I bought a color laser printer that normally is sold for US$499 for $100. It is not an obsolete model. Other local stores still sell the same model at $499.

The two stores that took 50% off coupon somehow gave me another 50% off at checkout. I did not know why (and not argue either, is it my charm?).

I got no deal from one store.

When I went home, I have checked the calendar-- it was a ji-mao day. Mao is wood-- my wealth element. So here is a potential "top secret" for maximizing your shopping dollars -- shop during your wealth day.

Best of all, you can blame it on me when your spouse yelling at all your shopping bags.
See you in the shopping malls!

NOTE: In case you don't know your wealth element, here are the formula:

Your Day-Master element / wealth element
----------------------------------------------------------------
Metal==> wood
Wood==> earth
Water==> fire
Fire==> metal
Earth==> water

You may refer to my message on "How to enhance your chance of winning lotto", it has presented a more detailed formula there.


Ken Lai

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Questions & Answers on "Feng Shui and 4P"

Below is taken from a message from my “4P Bootcamp” discussion list.

Hi Ken and others,

Student Comment: It appears that feng shui has an influence at least on people’s personality. I observed people living in different areas of the country or world behave differently.

Ken: Yes, there are regional difference in macro Feng Shui which affect not only the personality but also physical appearance of the people there. For example, people born in China’s Soo Zhou and Hang Zhou regions, where water and mountains are pretty, tend to be physically attractive too, not to mention there are many famous scholars and poets born in those areas in the past thousand years or so.

Then we have micro level Feng Shui that affect individual households. From my experience, I found that personal luck is likely to synchronize with Feng Shui . I told people if they feel their current luck is great, then fire the Feng Shui master and just grab a house. It will have good Feng Shui . But if you feel your current luck is low, you need to find a Feng Shui guy to help you. 

Some people intentionally or unintentionally overblow the power of Feng Shui. Feng Shui's basic premise is to live in harmony with nature. Everything else are just by-products. It does not intend to make you rich, to have good relationship, to beat recession or not getting sick. Even His Holiness Delai Lama gets sick from time to time and consults a doctor. The richest man in the world is not a Feng Shui master. In fact, many famous Feng Shui masters in history died poor. What did these mean? One's fate or destiny is more important than Feng Shui, not to mention personal cultivation and behaviors that also affect one's karma and luck.

Student Comment: My question is: does Feng Shui influence one’s luck? 

Ken: Yes, a Hong Kong sifu of mine had found that people with good Feng Shui , when they have traffic accident, their injury will be minimized or not severe. Another study in Taiwan about air-crash victims showed that their house Feng Shui tend to have problem like void line (no qi or energy coming into the house). 

So it seems that the relationship between Feng Shui and 4-Pillars is like this: if personal luck is bad, good Feng Shui will mitigate the negative effect. If one has good luck but his house Feng Shui is bad, the negative effect will not be as severe or mitigated. With bad personal luck and bad Feng Shui — your life will be very challenging. 

There are people who do not believe in San-sha (3-killings) and 5-yellow and dug in those areas and bragged about nothing negative happen. It did not happen YET because their current luck is probably on the high side. 

The negative effect may come a few years later— when your luck is low! Few people can enjoy good luck all the time. 

Some years ago Taiwan’s China Airline had a crash with many of its executives killed on-board. Taiwan Feng Shui masters had traced back that the company had violated San Sha a few years ago when they built their new headquarters. 

Student Comment: For example,  why there are more countries that suffer poverty, famine, and war than developed nations?

Ken: This has to do with the “earth luck” of those regions. It switches according to the lao-shu (post-heaven bagua) theoretically. For example, now is Period 8 and the auspicious region will be NE of any country or NE of the world. 

Student Comment: Does it mean good 4P charts and bad charts are not evenly distributed around the world?

Ken: There is no study done about the distribution of good and bad 4P charts. There are about a few hundred babies born every minute around the world with the same 4P charts. Of course, they will not have same luck and life experience. Different geography and birth environments (including social class background) will affect people with same 4P chart differently. 

There is a 4P story about two babies born at the same time– one was born on a ship and another born in the shop of a blacksmith. The one born on water became a major government official while the blacksmith’s son become a blacksmith. Then someone move this blacksmith son to the capital and study. He became an official too. 

Their natal chart liked water. Temperature adjustment in a 4P chart is very important. Very often, the difference between a rich man and a very rich man is the latter has temperature adjustment.

Student Comment: Majority of people in a 3rd world country are born with bad charts, or the ones with good charts managed to leave the country, or the ones born with good charts will have bad luck as well if they live in a city/country with bad Feng Shui?

Ken: Everything is relative. What’s considered “poor” here may sound like paradise in some other countries. The “poor” in USA still have cable TV and steady supply of food– compare this lifestyle to some third world poor, it is not bad at all. I don’t think majority of people in third world countries born with bad charts, just the ones with “good” charts may suffer less. 

Personally I think your “yun” or luck periods are more important than your Bazi natal chart and Feng Shui . When you are in good luck period, you can pick a house with good Feng Shui with your eyes blindfolded. 

To conclude, 4P interacts with Feng Shui , geography (hot or cold climate), birth environments, your personal choices and perhaps, your past lives too (if you believe in Buddhism). 

Student Comment: I ask this because people are always looking to change aspects of their lives i.e.) better job opportunities, less stressful life, etc. by moving to a different area. But is it really helpful? 

Ken: Yes, if your chart dislikes fire and you live in say, Malaysia (hot area), your luck will be better if you move to Minnesota (cold place). I have tested this out myself!


Ken Lai 

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