Sunday, March 31, 2019

How to Choose Auspicious door facing for Period 7, 8, 9

Below is the auspicious door facing directions based on Feng Shui Periods:

PERIOD 7 (1984- 2003)
Best for Career and Wealth luck:  West
Second Best:  Northeast
Third Best:  South

PERIOD 8 (2004- 2023)
Best for Career and Wealth luck:  Northeast
Second Best:  South
Third Best:  North

PERIOD 9 (2024- 2043)
Best for Career and Wealth luck: South
Second Best:  North
Third Best:  Southwest

HOW TO CHOOSE?
We are still in Feng Shui Period 8, but Period 9 will arrive in 4 years.  So it all depends on if you plan to move within 4 years or not OR if you want to maximize your wealth and career luck.  Here are the options:

If you want to maximize your wealth luck and move within 4- 5 years.  Choose a northeast facing door.  Move to a south facing door after 2023.

If you hate moving and want a permanent home with a 20 years best wealth luck after 4 years,  choose a south facing door.  

If you want to know more about door Feng Shui, please consult my:
“Practical Door Feng Shui for Wealth” w/ 3 hr. video 

Ken Lai
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Easy Feng Shui fixes for bad luck

When life and things are great, people often think that the good life is "normal" and will last forever.   But Life is like a roller-coaster with many ups and downs. What goes up will go down someday.  

Without bad luck, there would be no good luck to contrast.  Sooner or later bad luck will catch up with anyone.

How do you know you are in a bad luck period?  Beside getting a Bazi reading, check the following list to see if you are in bad luck now:
  1. Poor sleep or insomnia; nightmares or strange dreams
  2. Eyelids tickling or ringing ears
  3. Unstable emotion, easily irritated , throwing tantrums
  4. Minor illness, pimples or swellings grow on face
  5. Confusing mind and thought, unable to quiet down to think
  6. Poor interpersonal relationship with relatives, friends and coworkers
  7. Running into obstacles when doing anything.  Daily chores that are used to be a breeze are difficult to do well now.
  8. Sudden breaking of everyday utensils, light bulbs, flooding, leaking pipes, machines or electronics.
  9. Losing money and wealth without knowing the reason behind.   
  10. Minor traffic accidents or car damages/ scratches
  11. Your home suddenly has many flies.
  12. Hit by bird pooh
If you run into 3+ of the above, you are in bad luck now.  But today is your lucky day.  You can follow the simple Feng Shui fixes below to alleviate or reduce the effect of your bad luck:
  1. Do a major cleaning of your house.
  2. Switch to a different bedroom to sleep
  3. Change the head-pointing direction of your bed or move your bed location
  4. Donate or throw away old or damaged objects like clothing, furniture and etc.
  5. Re-arrange your furniture
  6. Rearrange your closet and remove/demote rarely used old clothing and shoes.
  7. Adjusting your sitting position at home and office (change the facing direction, make sure there is a wall at the back of your chair) or simply change the sitting location.
  8. Remove any Feng Shui fountain if it has been in the same location for over a year.
  9. Take a short out-of-town vacation or day trip to change your energy fields
  10. Invite friends to your home for partying, to warm up the energy of your house.
  11. Go to a temple or church to pray
  12. Do some volunteering work helping people or animals
  13. Donate money to charity
  14. Feed homeless cats or dogs
  15. Avoid going to cemetery, funeral and hospital.
If the above fixes do not fix your bad luck, you may have some serious problems.  You need to consult a Bazi reader and/or Feng Shui practitioner to design more personalized remedies.

Ken Lai
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Sunday, March 17, 2019

Zen and Self-Penalty

I get the following story from the web about a conversation between a venerable monk and a woman.  The original is in Chinese.  I translate it here: 

一位女士不停地述說自己的苦難,沒完沒了。
 A woman had been talking non-stop about her suffering and grievance. 

法師打斷她的話說:你的苦還真多呀!
The master had interrupted her, "You really have lots of suffering!"

女士:別人訴苦最多需要三天三夜,我訴苦需要三年! 
 Woman:    Other people may at most take 3 days and nights, my grievance needs 3 years to spell out!

法師:那是什麼時候的苦? 
Master:   When did your sufferings occur? 

女士:前幾年。
Woman:   Within the last few years.

法師:那不是過去了嗎?為什麼還緊抓不放呢?(停了一下)你拉出的糞便臭不臭? 
 Master:   Were these sufferings already passed?  Why do you still hold on to these sufferings?  (Paused).  Do the feces of your bowel movement smell?  

女士:當然很臭啦!
Woman:  Of course, very smelly!

法師:現在糞便在哪裡呢? 
 Master:  Where are your feces now?

女士:拉完就沖掉了。
Woman:  I had flushed them away after I was done.

法師:為什麼不把它包起來放在身上?見到人就拿出來告訴別人,說我被這東西臭過? 
Master:   Why don't you wrap your feces up and carry with you?   Then show and tell anyone you meet that you were smoked by these feces.   

士:那多惡心!
 Woman:   This is nauseating!

法師:對呀!苦難也是一樣,它已經過去了。回憶和訴苦就如同把糞便拿出來向人展示,既臭自己又臭別人!越訴苦越苦,越抱怨越怨。
 Master:   Exactly!  Sufferings and grievance are similar.  They had already passed.   Recollection and grieving about them are similar to showing your feces to people--  smelly to other people and yourself .  You suffer more when you recollect your past suffering.  You grieve more when you talk about your past grievance.

The story above illustrates the Bazi concept of "self-penalty"-- people's tendency to relive their grievance and suffering by talking and thinking about their unpleasant experience repeatedly.  People who listen to their grievance also suffer from this self-penalty like second-hand smoking.  We may call this "second hand penalty".

Psychologists and psychiatrists like self-penalty because they get paid US$200+ per hour here to listen to people's grievance.

Ken Lai
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Monday, March 11, 2019

Averting or Deflecting Misfortune and Disaster

During my Grand Duke Talisman charity drive in last January, a couple from the Philippines sent me this order (all names and city are renamed for privacy reason):

Dear Sir, 

I would like to order two Grand Duke talismans for 2019. One is for myself and the other for a friend. We are currently both not employed but do what we can to rescue cats from the streets. Hopefully 2019 will be kinder to us and our rescue kitties. 

Attached is the receipt of the donation. 

Thank you in advance! 

Best, 
Susan
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Below is my reply to this couple:

You volunteer work for stray cat rescue is good enough for the talisman (no donation needed).  So I give you an extra talisman to help you with job-seeking.  You may print it out in any size (business card size or bigger size) and carry with you (similar to the instruction listed for Grand Duke).

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The extra talisman that I had sent is the Lotus Guru Padmasambhava Mantra Wheel.  Usually I offer this talisman to my relatives and students only.  It offers protection from negative annual luck, astrological events and removes misfortunes and obstacles.

Last week, I have received a surprise email from this couple:

Dear Ken, 

In January you gave us a gift of the Mantra Wheel. This is to let you know how it has saved us twice this month. 

About two weeks ago Rick was on his bicycle at around 10pm. He was on a main road in the business district of Main City. As he was approaching an intersection two dump trucks came rushing past him on his left side. The first one cut in front of him to make a right turn at the intersection barely missing him. Luckily he was able to swerve to the right as the second dump truck came rushing past him too. He was shaken but unharmed. He said that if he didn't swerve the truck would have run over him. It was a close call. And the trucks didn't stop at all. Rick carries the Mantra Wheel in his wallet at all times. 

Some of the homeless cats rescued
The second incident happened two nights ago. We were watching TV and once or twice we would get a whiff of burning rubber. It wasn't strong so we thought it was coming from the outside. Checked outside and nothing there to account for the smell. Back inside one of my cats laid down on top of the DVDs player. As Rick picked her up he noticed the smell of burning rubber was stronger in that area. I immediately turned off the TV and player. We found out that the plug of the DVD had a broken prong and the rubber insulation was melting. It's a good thing we discovered it on time. If it had lasted longer I am almost sure it would cause a short circuit or even a fire. The Mantra Wheel is displayed on a shelf in the room where the TV is in. Thank goodness Coco the kitty decided to lie down on the DVD when she did. 

In both instances, carrying and displaying the Mantra Wheel has saved us from misfortune. And it's worked so quickly. 

I can't thank you enough for your kindness! The Mantra Wheel saved us twice already. What a blessing!

Thank you again for giving us the Mantra Wheel. Bless you, Ken! 

Hugs,
Susan

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While I believe the Lotus Guru talisman may have helped averting their misfortunes, I think what they have been doing-- saving the lives of homeless cats helps more in saving Rick's life and their house.

This incident illustrates one of the most effective methods of deflecting misfortunes is saving lives of any living things.  This couple has rescued 12 homeless cats so far.  Hence, if any astrological reading predicts you have an upcoming "obstacle" or major misfortune, saving a life is an effective way to averting it.  Yes, it is difficult to have the opportunity of saving human lives, but saving animal lives like cats and dogs are easier to accomplish.

Some of you may want the Lotus Guru Mantra Wheel talisman for protection For a donation of US$30 (or US$5 if you are unemployed or cannot afford US$30) to your local Animal Humane or Welfare agency (or any charity that reduces human suffering), I will email you a  Lotus Guru talisman consecrated and blessed in your name.  DO NOT SEND MONEY TO ME.  Send it directly to your favorite charity.  Your donation "activates" this talisman.  This limited offer is good till April 30, 2019 and will not be offered again.

Email your order and proof of donation to:  kenlai88@yahoo.com

Ken Lai

Monday, March 4, 2019

Another Approach to Self-penalties

Previous post derives self-penalties by matching branch 3-unities (San-he) to 3-meetings (San-hui).  This post uses branch groups to locate self-penalties.

Classic Bazi segregates 12 branch elements into 3 groups:

4 cardinal or peach-blossom elements
--  zi, wu, mao and you
4 sub-cardinal or traveling horses elements
--  yin, shen, si and hai
4 storage or tomb elements 
--  chen, xu, chou and wei 

From the above, we have 3-penalties
  1. zi-mao penalty
  2. yin-shen-si 3-penalties
  3. xu-chou-wei 3-penalties

The branch elements that are missing in these 3-penalties actions become self-penalty when running into identical element.  

Self-Penalties:
  • Chen-chen
  • You-you
  • Wu-wu
  • Hai-hai

Don't overlook the destructive power and influence of self-penalty.  It could be as serious as other penalties.  Out of the 4 self-penalties, wu, you and hai self-penalties are most serious because:

  • Wu-fire is the yang-knife (羊刃) of bing-fire
  • You-metal  is the yang-knife of geng-metal
  • Hai-water is the yang-knife of gui-water 

Self-penalty becomes serious matter when the corresponding stem showing up in the stem level, especially if the stem is also the daymaster (DM).

Self-penalty could mean:
  • self-inflicted pain/ injury
  • self-sabotage 
  • addiction
  • depression
  • worrisome
  • meddlesome
  • petty
  • cannot let go of trivial matters