1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff Works 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:13,240 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, I'm welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,720 Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, uh, and Jerry's over there. 4 00:00:16,720 --> 00:00:20,639 Speaker 1: So it's the stuff you should know. Our chi is flowing, 5 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 1: baby chee or key. Yeah. There's a lot of different 6 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,280 Speaker 1: pronunciations that are gonna happen today. Well supposedly. Um, it's 7 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: just the different spellings the same pronunciation. Q i and 8 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: h i are both cheap. Yeah, um, unless they're saying 9 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: kai for c h i, in which kids it's something 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: totally different. Yeah, that's that would be the Greek letter correct. Um, 11 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,199 Speaker 1: that means energy. Are we going to pronounce this fung shui? 12 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 1: I usually say fung chui fui, but it could go 13 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: either way. I mean, it depends. If it's Mandarin that 14 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: we're speaking, Chuck, Yeah, we should say fong shui fun. 15 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: I guess I usually say it in Mandarin fun chui. 16 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: If we're speaking in Cantonese, we would say fung suite. Okay, 17 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: So I guess we're gonna go with the Mandarin. Alright, great, 18 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 1: okay with you. Yeah, and Uh I even looked up 19 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: because I've always said Tao is um um. Yeah, that's right, right. Well, 20 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 1: a lot of people say there's been some confusion. So 21 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:25,560 Speaker 1: I actually looked it up and this author, Derrek Lynn, 22 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: had a nice little thing. The first the misconception, he says, 23 00:01:30,800 --> 00:01:33,640 Speaker 1: is that the first letter in t a o daw 24 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: is an approximation of a Chinese sound that does not 25 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 1: have an exact English equivalent, because apparently in England, I 26 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: think they say Taoism. But he says that's actually not true. 27 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 1: There is an equivalent, and it is a d And 28 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,440 Speaker 1: he said the misconception was created by an author who 29 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: had no understanding of Chinese and that was spread around. 30 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: He did not name the author, but apparently as he 31 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 1: had high academic standing, Jonathan Franz, and so he said 32 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:05,720 Speaker 1: it is Daoism if you're speaking in English, and that 33 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 1: this author has uh spread a mistruth that there is 34 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: no real translation. Nice. There you go. That was the 35 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 1: glossary of this episode pretty much. So, uh, well, let's 36 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: talk about she first man, because fun is the the 37 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: practice of allowing ch to flow in the best possible way, 38 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 1: and she is the Chinese concept of the energy that 39 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: pervades and permeates the universe, including us, and it is 40 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:44,760 Speaker 1: linked to Taoism and goes all the way back to 41 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 1: sixth century BC. And um, like you said, it's uh, 42 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,080 Speaker 1: it's supposedly something that can't even be described in language. 43 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: But you did a pretty good job, I think for 44 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: someone who uh supposedly is not supposed to be able 45 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: to do that. The thing is, well, I'm obviously an 46 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: incredible person. The thing is, um, this ch this energy 47 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: can be blocked, it can fall out of balance. There's 48 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:17,240 Speaker 1: it's not self correcting necessarily. Sometimes it needs help, that's right. 49 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,320 Speaker 1: And so when we inhabit an area, build a home, 50 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 1: a community, palace, what have you, we need to build 51 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 1: it in such a way that it's not going to 52 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: block this chi or it's not going to um throw 53 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: things out of balance, because we will be impacted negatively 54 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 1: if it if that happens, that's right. Because in the 55 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 1: East there is a long held belief that the space 56 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 1: we inhabit is not just the space we live in, 57 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: but we are actually connected to that uh spiritually and 58 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: with our energy. And um that the way you lay 59 00:03:55,440 --> 00:03:59,360 Speaker 1: out your home and the way you build like even 60 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: where you play your home on your property and the 61 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: way you align it with the surrounding nature. It's actually 62 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 1: very important part of it. Um. That is functual, which 63 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:16,279 Speaker 1: is translated literally as wind and water. Right, pretty neat. Um. 64 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: A lot of people in the West have jumped on 65 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 1: this train since the nineteen eighties. It's very uh popular 66 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: thing to do. Um, often misguided attempts. Um. As far 67 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: as traditional functuation, Well, it's like a completely different school. Yeah, basically, um, 68 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 1: not basically entirely, but um. A lot of people in 69 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 1: the West also will poopoo this, and a lot of 70 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 1: people in the East poopoo it. Now apparently only about 71 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: a third of people in modern China even believe it 72 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,480 Speaker 1: is a thing. Um. Well, Chairman Mao rooted it out 73 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: during the Cultural Revolution. Yeah, I mean it is. It is. 74 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 1: It's not illegal to practice it. It is illegal though, 75 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,720 Speaker 1: to start a business in China modern China where you 76 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: say that you're doing functually. Um, But they can't really like, well, 77 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:03,800 Speaker 1: I guess you could allow the practice. They outlaw lots 78 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: of stuff from what I've been told. But um, apparently 79 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 1: the younger generation it's even less than a third. It's 80 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:11,920 Speaker 1: just kind of going the way of the Dodo. But hey, 81 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,720 Speaker 1: we picked up on it in California and then ran 82 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:18,719 Speaker 1: with it. Yeah, you know, especially in the eighties. Yeah, sure, man, 83 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: that was a super eighties thing. But a lot of 84 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 1: people poopoo it though, as they do a lot of 85 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 1: things in the ease and saying this is just a 86 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 1: bunch of superstitious gobbadygook. There's no such thing as an 87 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: energy flowing through your house or your body that needs 88 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,159 Speaker 1: to be aligned. So we're not here to uh, we're 89 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,239 Speaker 1: just gonna explain it to you exactly, So just save 90 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: your emails people. So, um, what's interesting about fung hui 91 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: initially is that not not just China but also India 92 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,840 Speaker 1: lay claim to its origins. Actually, that's right, um, And 93 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:52,880 Speaker 1: remember I think you you did a pretty good job 94 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:56,719 Speaker 1: defining it. But which it's they're saying again, funcui is 95 00:05:56,760 --> 00:06:01,839 Speaker 1: this practice of arranging your in have, your your abode, 96 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:07,679 Speaker 1: your life, your workspace, um in a way that allows 97 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: che to flow freely. That's right, okay, um. And there 98 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: was there's evidence I think back three thousand years ago, 99 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:24,159 Speaker 1: no sorry years ago, so about BC there is evidence 100 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 1: of what the Indians call Vastu Shastra, which is basically 101 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,200 Speaker 1: a translation of building science, which is that you should 102 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 1: follow certain practices, use certain geometries to allow energy to 103 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: flow so that you can prosper and not be harmed negatively. Yeah, 104 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,920 Speaker 1: and uh, this is um been seeing many times. I've 105 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: read a great article in UH, I think it was 106 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: history today by guy named Anthony Evini called bringing the 107 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: Sky down to Earth, with basically the idea that many 108 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 1: many cities through history have been built with this concept 109 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: in my and that the gods bringing the gods down 110 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:08,919 Speaker 1: to your city, Like you know, he's a stonehenge, Beijing, Washington, 111 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 1: d c Uh and m this place in Mexico that 112 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:19,000 Speaker 1: I will pronounce as Theo t Hua Kan. I don't 113 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 1: know if that's right. It's like a Mayan ancient Mayan city, 114 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:27,280 Speaker 1: and they all have the same um philosophy of mine, 115 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,800 Speaker 1: which is apparently if you go to Beijing, it's very 116 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,320 Speaker 1: famous for its layout. As his d c. You can 117 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 1: stand in Tienamen Square and you can draw a straight 118 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: line up the bell and drum towers, straight through to 119 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: the monument to the People's Heroes, to the Masoli liam 120 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:46,880 Speaker 1: of Mao z Dong on a perfect north south axis, 121 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: like everything is planned out. And this is I'm not 122 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: saying Washington, d C. Was necessarily fung swid Fun said, 123 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: and I know that you shouldn't use that as a verb, 124 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: but I'm going to It works. But it's it's the 125 00:08:01,280 --> 00:08:04,520 Speaker 1: idea like Stonehenge, that the it's the cities are aligned 126 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: cosmically somehow with the stars in mind. And it can 127 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: be as simple as um the entrance to the dwelling 128 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: or the city, or the burial mound or temple or Stonehenge, 129 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:22,240 Speaker 1: whatever is aligned so that the sun comes right up 130 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: through it on the winter solstice or thing. That that 131 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: is the basis of fung hui, and it does show 132 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,760 Speaker 1: up in other cultures across time. Yeah. One of the 133 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: one of the famous cities that was laid out according 134 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:41,520 Speaker 1: to um, this Indian version of it, Vastu Shastra as 135 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:47,079 Speaker 1: um ankor Watt in Cambodia, very famous temple. Those were 136 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:49,800 Speaker 1: built and I think the thirteenth century CE. So it's 137 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 1: not evidence that the Indians were first, but there is 138 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: evidence elsewhere that that there were Indian cities and buildings 139 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: planned out according to these and the idea was is 140 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: that a couple of thousand years later, some Indian monks, 141 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:09,240 Speaker 1: Hindu monks made their way into maybe to bed or 142 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: Mongolia or China and started spreading the vast Shastra. And 143 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: that's when China got their hands on it and turned 144 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: it into what we now recognize this functually. That's one 145 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,840 Speaker 1: interpretation of the origin of the whole thing. Yeah, and 146 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,640 Speaker 1: and either way, what both of them are doing is 147 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: looking and taking into accounts, uh the five elements earth, water, fire, air, 148 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:36,920 Speaker 1: and space and how they affect uh, your your pad 149 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: and um or your city, like you said, our community 150 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,640 Speaker 1: or temple um. And some people might say, well, this 151 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 1: is you know, you might want to call it functual. 152 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: But I'm just building a house and I think we've 153 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: got this lovely mountain view, and I like the sunrise 154 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: to come up through my kitchen because I like a 155 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: bright kitchen. So that's how I'm going to build my house. 156 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 1: People that practice function, I would say, brother, that's function, 157 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:04,440 Speaker 1: that's a t s. You know, it's just how I 158 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:07,400 Speaker 1: like to build my house. And you know that. Yeah, 159 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: And then they fight, that's right, They leg wrestle for domination. 160 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: So that though, would be more Western functuation. And we'll 161 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 1: get into it. But Basically, the distinction between Western functional 162 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: eighties function and Classic Functui UM is the amount of 163 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,320 Speaker 1: scientific formulae put into it, the amount of calculations at 164 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: least that are put into it, the amount of thought. 165 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: It's like Western function is Functui light and not even 166 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: l I G h T like l I T E 167 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:44,840 Speaker 1: like that kind of eighties light. Yeah, well, we might 168 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: as well talk about the schools. Then it's a great 169 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 1: before we do. Though, sorry to interrupt the segua because 170 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 1: it was pretty good. We should say that UM. Most 171 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 1: historians now believe that it was actually China that came 172 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: up with Yeah, just the evidence is is just earlier 173 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:06,319 Speaker 1: for the idea that it originated with burials in China, 174 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,079 Speaker 1: Like you buried people a certain way and you built 175 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: the burial grounds in a certain way, according to Functual. 176 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 1: So what you're saying is they leg wrestled and he 177 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: won the leg wrestle. Very good. Uh So the different 178 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,240 Speaker 1: schools UM, there are a lot of variations, but the 179 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: three main categories are the form school, which was from 180 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,960 Speaker 1: southern China, and that is heavily based on the environment. 181 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,800 Speaker 1: Like we were talking about Classic Functual, it's the oldest 182 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 1: form and that's when you're talking about and back then 183 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 1: it was practical because what they were trying to do 184 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: is build a safe place for your house to be. Um. 185 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:46,280 Speaker 1: So maybe you uh set your house up with the 186 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 1: wind block at the mountains, with that landscape that slopes, 187 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: or you know, the water flowing down to you is 188 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: super important, so you may want to open your house 189 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,320 Speaker 1: up to that. But it was it was practical though, 190 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: right exactly. Um. And another practical way of um figuring 191 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: out where to put your house is found in the 192 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,280 Speaker 1: compass school. That one just forget about it. That's that's 193 00:12:09,320 --> 00:12:11,680 Speaker 1: the one I understand the most. This one makes the 194 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 1: most sense to me. Yeah, because it's math and you're 195 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,959 Speaker 1: like weird like that, well a little maybe a little bit. 196 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,160 Speaker 1: But basically what this says is it's kind of like 197 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: the form school where you're looking for different features of 198 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: the landscape to to most benefit where to build your house. 199 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: But this is this is using that same kind of 200 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: thought process but aligning it with magnetism and the stars 201 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 1: to write right, well, you're using the stars to determine magnetism, 202 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: like which way is north and south and that kind 203 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: of thing. But it does combine some math, Chinese astrology, 204 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: and then fun sui together and you get what's called 205 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,200 Speaker 1: the compass school, which is also very frequently known as 206 00:12:55,240 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: traditional Functui, and it includes a lot of detail old 207 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 1: research to figure out exactly what you're supposed to do 208 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 1: where your house is supposed to be facing, if it 209 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: is facing a certain way, of what you can do 210 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,160 Speaker 1: to kind of correct it. There's just a ton of 211 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,360 Speaker 1: thought and calculation put into what we'll learn later is 212 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: called the Bogwa map. So that's that's mostly the traditional 213 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 1: school is the compass school, and it's based on the 214 00:13:21,320 --> 00:13:26,520 Speaker 1: idea that magnetism dictates which way your whole jam should 215 00:13:26,559 --> 00:13:30,280 Speaker 1: be facing and oriented. And I think to the north 216 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: is the right way. That's the right way, where as 217 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: far as your entry way, yes, okay uh. And then 218 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: we have um what the Westerners have latched onto um 219 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:46,360 Speaker 1: the Black Hat sect or that's nomina it does or 220 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: the Black sect Esoteric Buddhism Functional which was UM founded 221 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:56,240 Speaker 1: by Professor Thomas Lynn Jun who was known UM and 222 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: believed to be an enlightened man and Um he basically 223 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 1: came to the West and founded this sect of functual 224 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:08,679 Speaker 1: and it blew up and Um, Westerners, I love this 225 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 1: one because it's the one that most easily translates to 226 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: an h G TV show, right, you know, like put 227 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,040 Speaker 1: this plant there, put a fountain there, put your door 228 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: here and painted this color, and and you're going to 229 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 1: be wealthy and successful. Don't put this there, don't put 230 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:27,440 Speaker 1: that there. It's it's a lot of object placement. So 231 00:14:27,480 --> 00:14:30,000 Speaker 1: it's easy for us dummies over here to understand it's 232 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:34,040 Speaker 1: basically interior design pretty much. So we'll talk a little 233 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 1: more about the distinction and then what some of the 234 00:14:36,760 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 1: commonalities they have are right after this, so chuck the 235 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: black Hat school. It's hilarious to me, like, why would 236 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 1: you call it that? I don't know. I'm sure there 237 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: was a great reason I couldn't find it anywhere. What 238 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 1: I found instead is that most people call it Western function, 239 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:22,320 Speaker 1: and a lot of functual practitioners pooh pooh Western. They're 240 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: like this this is some like perversion of an interpretation 241 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: of functui. Yeah, it's it's americanized, um, and it's taught 242 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: by people who don't even necessarily aren't functual masters, even 243 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: though just if they can set up a website and say, 244 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:42,800 Speaker 1: pay me a thousand dollars, I'll come and tell you 245 00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:45,800 Speaker 1: where to put your plants exactly. But Thomas lynn Un 246 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: and his followers say, no, we had we had the basics, Like, yeah, definitely, 247 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: traditional functual is very detailed, very um mathematically oriented. But 248 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: we're still getting the same point across, coming to the 249 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 1: same conclusions and just an easier corner cutting way. That's right. 250 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 1: Why go to all the trouble if you can get 251 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 1: the same results. What's more Western than that? Good point? Uh? 252 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:15,200 Speaker 1: So should we talk about um the five elements a 253 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: little bit? I guess yes. UM, Like I said, there 254 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: is earth, fire, metal, water, and wood, and these are 255 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:24,920 Speaker 1: the phases through which the energy or the g or 256 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: the key moves. And UM, I think this article said 257 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: it very well. It's like a sort of a game 258 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: of rock paper scissors. If you look at a creative 259 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: or productive UM way in which these elements can interact, uh, 260 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:44,520 Speaker 1: you have would producing fire, Uh, fire produces earth av 261 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 1: as an ash, Earth produces metal, UM, metal produces water, 262 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: water produces wood, metal producing water. Don't get that one, 263 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: mm hmm, all the rest of them like yeah, made sense, Lie, 264 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: refrigerator's metal and it has a water dispenser in the day. Yeah. Uh. 265 00:17:05,600 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 1: And then you have the destructive. This is when it's 266 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,119 Speaker 1: bad chi. And if you look at the little illustration 267 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,680 Speaker 1: on how stuff works on the on the first one, 268 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 1: you have this great circle of arrows and it's just lovely, 269 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:18,840 Speaker 1: and this other one has a a nasty bunch of 270 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,720 Speaker 1: arrows just laying all over one another, and it's just 271 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:26,400 Speaker 1: a big mess. Yeah, like um would burdens earth. Yeah, 272 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:29,680 Speaker 1: nobody wants that. Water douses fire. That's a clear one. Sure, 273 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: um metal chops would, Yes, it does, it does. There's 274 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 1: there's uh. So the the interaction between these elements in 275 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 1: your house, or the way you arrange your house will 276 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: determine whether these phases of CHI are destructive or productive 277 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:51,360 Speaker 1: in their interactions together. And if you have too much 278 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:52,960 Speaker 1: of one thing, you need to balance it out with 279 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 1: something else productively exactly the other two for destructive. Our 280 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: fire melts metal and earth blocks water like a damn. 281 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,359 Speaker 1: You don't want a damn. You want the water flowing. Baby. 282 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:07,880 Speaker 1: You know you forgot hulk smash? Is that the other one? Yea, 283 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:12,560 Speaker 1: the final one, and then uh, the yin yang. We 284 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,680 Speaker 1: can't go any further. Without mentioning that. No, it's basically 285 00:18:16,840 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: a really clever conception of chi. Yeah, opposite states of cheek, 286 00:18:23,119 --> 00:18:28,440 Speaker 1: light and dark, night and day, young and old man woman. Sure, 287 00:18:28,880 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 1: and there there's actually a way that it's supposed to 288 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: be properly represented. The white is supposed to be on 289 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: top because the white represents in part heat, and the 290 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: idea is that heat rises, but they're they're both constantly 291 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: in motion. But if you ever see a yin and 292 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:48,600 Speaker 1: yang symbol displayed, though, the lighter one should be on top, 293 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:51,240 Speaker 1: that's right, and not only heat for the white, but 294 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: masculinity and spirit and hardness and activity where it's yang 295 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:58,840 Speaker 1: by the way, Yeah, oh yeah, we didn't point that out, 296 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:02,199 Speaker 1: and it's not yang yang by the way. We I 297 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:04,359 Speaker 1: used to say it that way. I think everybody did it, 298 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,919 Speaker 1: sure at some point, and yeah, I quipped in my 299 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: early forties, Um, it's yes. Uh. The yen h is femininity, femininity, matter, nighttime, coldness, softness, passivity, 300 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: and as long as you want those things balanced and 301 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 1: the way they just fit together in that little circle. Man, 302 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,000 Speaker 1: it's just like it's pleasing to the eye. And I 303 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 1: think that's kind of says it all. You know, it 304 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 1: just looks nice. It's not jagged. It's like it's like 305 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: two people just cuddling up, you know, in the form 306 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:42,800 Speaker 1: of a tattoo you wish you hadn't gotten. That's right 307 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,879 Speaker 1: with some maybe Chinese characters that you don't know what 308 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 1: they mean any longer. Uh there, Um, well, I guess 309 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: we're the bagua right, Yeah, so this has made sense 310 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: to me. Right. Um, Remember what we're dealing with here 311 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 1: is she. She flows through the five elements, and you 312 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,240 Speaker 1: deal with the five elements in your house. To figure 313 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 1: out where in your house you need a little more 314 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:10,800 Speaker 1: of one element than another, you have to construct a 315 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,160 Speaker 1: Bogua map. Yeah, like this is where the rubber meets 316 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 1: the road. We've been talking in esoteric terms. But if 317 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:18,600 Speaker 1: you're like, great, dudes, what does this mean for my 318 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 1: freaking living room? This is what it means for your 319 00:20:22,080 --> 00:20:24,959 Speaker 1: freaking living room. Yeah. And the Bogua map is based 320 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:31,879 Speaker 1: on boxes squares. They're the basic units of um of 321 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:36,560 Speaker 1: Functionali nine squares three by three. Uh. And you take 322 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 1: those squares and somehow this is really clever too. But 323 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: even though there's nine squares, you can take them and 324 00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: turn them into a hexagon. If you take the center 325 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:52,400 Speaker 1: square and convert that into well as center, and then 326 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 1: the eight boxes around it become eight sides of a hexagon. 327 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,280 Speaker 1: If you shave off a little here or there, and 328 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: all of a sudden you have are is a bogwa. Yeah, 329 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: and they can represent color as well as um these 330 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,400 Speaker 1: elements as well as for the actual map that you're 331 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: going to use UM for laying out your home aspects 332 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:21,479 Speaker 1: of your life, like you know, career and wealth and uh, 333 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,359 Speaker 1: prosperity and love and marriage and things like that. Right, 334 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,600 Speaker 1: So there's multiple meanings. And it also is if you've 335 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 1: seen the TV show Lost, they totally ripped it off 336 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: with the dharma collective symbol. It is just that is 337 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 1: nothing more than the bogwa grid with the yin yang 338 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,120 Speaker 1: in the center right, and the yin yang is frequently 339 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 1: represented in the center is yellow correct, yep. Yellow is 340 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: the center of the Bogua map, which is actually the 341 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: center of this nine squared box called the low shoe 342 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: square UM. And in each of the different boxes there 343 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,239 Speaker 1: is a static representation. So this is this is what 344 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,679 Speaker 1: you need to know about the Bagua map. It is 345 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: hexagon that the placement is always the same what you 346 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: do is you take your Bagua map and you oriented 347 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: a certain way over your house, over your your actual 348 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: house or the room in your house or something like that, 349 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: and that's what changes. So if you look at the 350 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:21,280 Speaker 1: Bogwa square, the yellow is always center and then black, 351 00:22:21,359 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 1: which represents water and career um is always at the bottom. Okay, 352 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:31,240 Speaker 1: yeah a k A supposed to be the entrance to 353 00:22:31,480 --> 00:22:35,440 Speaker 1: that room or your home, Okay, exactly, So yeah, it's 354 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: not necessarily always at the bottom, it's always at the entrance. Well, 355 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: you placed the bottom at the entrance, so if I 356 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: were to walk into my house, you can either visualize 357 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 1: it or you can literally draw this uh square. You 358 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,879 Speaker 1: want the bottom which is uh the bottom, center is 359 00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:57,240 Speaker 1: career or water. Bottom right is helpful people in travel, 360 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: bottom left is knowledge and self cultivation. You just want 361 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,439 Speaker 1: to find out where your front door is. In my case, 362 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: mine is pretty much in the center of my home, 363 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:10,480 Speaker 1: which would be career, but it could fall if your 364 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: doors on your left, it would fall under knowledge and 365 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: self cultivation. So it's it's not like you move the 366 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,720 Speaker 1: map over to to to help yourself out. Like where 367 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: your door is is where it is. You can move 368 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:24,120 Speaker 1: it if you want, Yeah, you could move your door. 369 00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 1: But basically the map is just supposed to be static, okay. 370 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:32,359 Speaker 1: So and it's static, like you said, it's oriented um 371 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:35,640 Speaker 1: with the black on the entrance, right, no matter where 372 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: the entrance is, the black is on the the black 373 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 1: is there. So when you orient your your black box 374 00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,679 Speaker 1: onto your entrance, what you're doing then is using your 375 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:50,200 Speaker 1: Bogwa map to show you how you need to change 376 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 1: your house in order to maximize the flow of chee 377 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,040 Speaker 1: through it. Yeah, it's basically And by the way, you 378 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:02,920 Speaker 1: shouldn't supposedly use any additions build you should do those separately. Okay. 379 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:05,280 Speaker 1: So if you if you're living room has a big 380 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: new addition to the lefty like, you shouldn't even include that. 381 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 1: So basically you're what you're doing is you're you're dividing 382 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:15,239 Speaker 1: your space up into zones according to this grid. And 383 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: so if you were to look at my house according 384 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:23,080 Speaker 1: to the low shoe square, uh, my TV would be 385 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: in the wealth and prosperity corner, which is probably not good. 386 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:33,400 Speaker 1: You're gonna make money on TV. That didn't exactly happen. Uh, 387 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: My couch is the knowledge and self cultivation. I'm not 388 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 1: sure what that means. And then my sun room would 389 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 1: be helpful people in travel, that's what that means either. 390 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,640 Speaker 1: And in the center is my coffee table. The if 391 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:47,160 Speaker 1: I wanted to have good cheat to have a yellow 392 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:51,280 Speaker 1: rug there, Yeah, but I don't, but you should. We 393 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:54,919 Speaker 1: have some nice tile squares of varying colors, so you 394 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: can do that, chuck for every room of your house. 395 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,880 Speaker 1: And you're supposed to like, like you just said, well, 396 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 1: now I know where I should put a yellow rug 397 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: in my in my house, Like you would want to 398 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 1: put that in the center of where the Bogua map 399 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,399 Speaker 1: falls over that room, right, Um you might also so 400 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,720 Speaker 1: for example, um, if you just kind of had a 401 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:18,480 Speaker 1: dead space where the red boxes which is for fame 402 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,800 Speaker 1: and reputation, and you want to foster that kind of thing, man, 403 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:26,119 Speaker 1: there's a dead space there. Um, you would put something 404 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: like awards there, animal related items, maybe a stuff jackalopet 405 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 1: or something would be a good spot for that or 406 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:37,119 Speaker 1: a good thing for that spot. Um. And so you 407 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,679 Speaker 1: basically what you're doing is using the Bogua map to 408 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: say you're just cross referencing spots of your house. And 409 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:47,840 Speaker 1: when you add these things and basically do interior decorating. Um, 410 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:52,919 Speaker 1: you can maximize a floachi. Yeah, if you look at 411 00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: my master bedroom and bathroom, I have a bad functuation 412 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: because right in that top left corner wealth and prosperity 413 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,639 Speaker 1: is my toilet. Oh yeah, so supposedly you're flushing it 414 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:07,160 Speaker 1: all down the toilet. They say you should not put 415 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:12,000 Speaker 1: your bathroom or your toilet specifically in your wealth grid 416 00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: right square. So what we've just described is what a 417 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:22,120 Speaker 1: Western practitioner would do, because again, Western functionali has a 418 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: lot to do with interior decorating, and so too does 419 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 1: to an extent um, traditional functional. But a traditional functional practitioner, Um, 420 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 1: if they came to your house and they used the 421 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: Bogua map over your house, they would they wouldn't just 422 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,720 Speaker 1: align it to an entrance. They would align it to 423 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: a magnetic direction. I'm pretty sure it's north. I think 424 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,399 Speaker 1: I think you're right. But the black the black um 425 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: square in the Bogua map would be oriented in that direction, 426 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 1: so it wouldn't necessarily be facing your entrance. And so 427 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: there's this kind of It reveals this really big distinct 428 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:04,080 Speaker 1: action between Western functual and traditional functual. Whereas with Western 429 00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: functually it's like, oh, we'll just line it up to 430 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 1: the entrance, and maybe you've got a problem with your 431 00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 1: toilet flushing, your your fame away in your bathroom, or 432 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:16,200 Speaker 1: your money away in your bathroom. With traditional functual, there's 433 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,760 Speaker 1: no getting around it. It's once it lays over your house. 434 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 1: According to Magnetic North, what it gives you a really 435 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: clear picture of what you're gonna have to do, and 436 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,520 Speaker 1: you may have to tear down your house and start 437 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 1: over and rebuild facing the right way. Um. It could 438 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: reveal a lot of real problems with your house. Um, 439 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 1: and you may have to fill in more areas than others. 440 00:27:39,640 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: Whereas if you're just orienting each room based on its 441 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:47,000 Speaker 1: entrance like in Western functual, there's um, you're not gonna 442 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: find quite as many problems in a lot more easy solutions. 443 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,080 Speaker 1: That makes sense also with a traditional functional consultant who 444 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: um is basically telling you what you need to do 445 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,200 Speaker 1: with your house, they're gonna do research on your else 446 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,159 Speaker 1: itself too. They're gonna find out when it was built, 447 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: when the roof wasn't closed. That's a big one too. 448 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 1: And then they're going to also create this Baguo map 449 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,760 Speaker 1: and a chart based on Chinese astrology as well, because 450 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:16,720 Speaker 1: time factors in a lot with traditional functual way more 451 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 1: than Western. Again, Western is very um, quick to the 452 00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,840 Speaker 1: point and just put some stuff here. Like another example 453 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,639 Speaker 1: that people criticize Western functual and kind of point like 454 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 1: it's just basically um. Interior design is plaid is considered 455 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 1: a form of the wood element. So if you have 456 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: too much plaid, like a plague couch in a room, 457 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:41,400 Speaker 1: you might need to encounter that with like a little 458 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,480 Speaker 1: fountain or something like that. But where where did the 459 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 1: idea that plaid was would come from? It's definitely not 460 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 1: traditional Chinese. I don't think so. I don't think they 461 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:52,680 Speaker 1: have plaid in China, do they? I don't think so. 462 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: But that raises another thing to another criticism of Western 463 00:28:56,440 --> 00:29:02,320 Speaker 1: functual is that very frequently um functual consultants in the 464 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 1: West will be like, oh, you just need to add 465 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: a food dog, you know, like that kind of lion 466 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: looking dog. So you need to add some you've seen 467 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,440 Speaker 1: a million times. Is it like a little statue or 468 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,280 Speaker 1: something you need to add like some Chinese pottery jagon 469 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: mural or something. Yea, and traditional functual practitioners are like, yeah, 470 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,520 Speaker 1: art counts, but um, it doesn't have to be Chinese. Right, 471 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:28,840 Speaker 1: So if you're consultant is selling you Chinese, aren't. This 472 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,440 Speaker 1: is right, this is essential. Yeah, that's not that's not 473 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: correct with the red flag. Yeah alright, well we have 474 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:40,600 Speaker 1: some more um uh tips from funcui experts that will 475 00:29:40,640 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 1: get to right after this. All right, so we're talking 476 00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: the Bagua grid. Like we said, it's all represented with 477 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:12,680 Speaker 1: the different colors. Those colors also correspond to numbers, and 478 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: they also correspond to aspects of your life or chi 479 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: sounds confusing, it kind of is. Yeah, let's just say it. 480 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: But here are some things that functual practitioners say will 481 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:31,600 Speaker 1: help unlock that chi um black, which is your career. Uh. 482 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,000 Speaker 1: They say a fountain or a mirror might be a 483 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,880 Speaker 1: good thing to have. Their blue, which is skills and wisdom. 484 00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 1: Maybe that's where you put your computer workstation or your 485 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: library okay yeah books, yeah, books green your family Maybe 486 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,960 Speaker 1: that's where you want to put your family photos and 487 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,160 Speaker 1: you want to arrange them nicely too. Yeah. Supposedly, if 488 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: you have your family photos out of order in your 489 00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: green section, um, you're gonna have misbehaving kids. Yeah, actually 490 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 1: that's the white zone. That's children. Oh sorry, that's okay, 491 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:06,360 Speaker 1: but yeah, that's that's that's what they say. If you 492 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,120 Speaker 1: want good kids, keep those photos nice. I'm not sure 493 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 1: about that one. Uh, purple is your prosperity zone, and 494 00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:18,040 Speaker 1: that's where you want to have it, says healthy plants. 495 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 1: Don't put your dying plants there, or sailing ships. I 496 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 1: guess that's just um sailing towards prosperity. I guess maybe 497 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,160 Speaker 1: don't don't put a painting of a sinking ship. No, 498 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:36,040 Speaker 1: that that's that is western function there. Yeah, sure that 499 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,280 Speaker 1: you don't like that. That whole kind of psychology would 500 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 1: be detrimental to the health of the area. Yeah, why 501 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,920 Speaker 1: would you want that anyway though? Like good paints is 502 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 1: sinking ship? Yeah? Um, a depressed sea captain probably would be. 503 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,680 Speaker 1: My guess. Red is famine reputation. That's where you want 504 00:31:55,720 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 1: to put your various awards. Um, so yeah, we got 505 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,040 Speaker 1: a couple of those, and your jackalope head your jackalope yeah, 506 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:05,960 Speaker 1: animal animal related things. You're right, we should lay out 507 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: our next studio, like according to funk dude, we totally should. 508 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,440 Speaker 1: You know, I just noticed is red supposedly is what 509 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:14,840 Speaker 1: you want to put on the back of your chair 510 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,280 Speaker 1: to block a bad cheek. And we've got a huge 511 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 1: red foam thing in between us and Jerry. Oh wow, 512 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,640 Speaker 1: so we gotta get rid of that. Oh I was 513 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,680 Speaker 1: gonna say that explains why I've been able to put 514 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: up with her cheek for so long. Now, Jerry, she 515 00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,120 Speaker 1: is the good flow our way, So we need to 516 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 1: open that up in our new place. Um. Pink love 517 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: and relationships, that's where you want to put maybe photos 518 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: of your family or paired items. Again with the family photos, yeah, 519 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,640 Speaker 1: I don't have that many family photos. Paradig items that's cute, 520 00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:50,720 Speaker 1: that makes sense, like book ends, salt and pepper shakers. Uh. 521 00:32:51,080 --> 00:33:00,000 Speaker 1: Boxing gloves, Um, that's where you hang your boxing gloves. Um. 522 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,400 Speaker 1: Remember Joe Garden from The Onion with those giant boxing 523 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 1: gloves he had. Yeah, those were so much fun. He 524 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:06,200 Speaker 1: had a thing where he just wanted to get as 525 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 1: many people to pose with those as possible and take 526 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 1: a swing at him. Uh. White what we already mentioned 527 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,600 Speaker 1: with children or creativity, that's where you might want to 528 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 1: put some art or pictures of your little brats, um, 529 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: gray travel um or helpful people but you're souvenirs from 530 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,880 Speaker 1: Disneyland there and not just Disneyland any trip you've taken. 531 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,920 Speaker 1: Sure the Disney company wants you to just put Disney 532 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,800 Speaker 1: souvenirs there though. Uh. And yellow Finally, health um pottery 533 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 1: and stone objects will help unlock your chee there. Yeah. 534 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:42,040 Speaker 1: But speaking of Disney Hong Kong, Disneyland, they apparently had 535 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: a functuated expert consulted and uh they made some changes 536 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,680 Speaker 1: because of that consultation. Yeah. Probably that was probably a 537 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 1: nice paying gig. The yeah, you know, because someone was 538 00:33:53,520 --> 00:34:00,120 Speaker 1: like catchy yea or they were saying e jing anyway a. 539 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:04,000 Speaker 1: The the open on September twelfth, because they were told 540 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,480 Speaker 1: that was a lucky day according to the astrological chart. 541 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:10,760 Speaker 1: Their consultant drew up. They changed the entrance by twelve 542 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 1: degrees obviously it was a traditional um functui practitioner uh, 543 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,919 Speaker 1: and added some boulders. Apparently one of the restaurants has 544 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,680 Speaker 1: a projection of a fire, which to me that wouldn't count, 545 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:29,000 Speaker 1: but maybe it does. That seems pretty Western to me 546 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:34,480 Speaker 1: because one of the big bases of Western function is psychology. 547 00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: If traditional function is based on magnetism and astrology. Western 548 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 1: functui is based on psychology, and it is as simple 549 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,000 Speaker 1: as you don't put a painting of a sinking ship 550 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,080 Speaker 1: in the office of a business that's struggling to stay 551 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: afloat because the mind makes those kind of associations and 552 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:57,360 Speaker 1: it messes up your cheek. That's right, um, And a 553 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,840 Speaker 1: lot of this stuff as well. Like we said, UM, 554 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,560 Speaker 1: I think, like you just mentioned maybe like it just 555 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:07,480 Speaker 1: seems like common sense. Um, like a horseshoe shaped building 556 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,680 Speaker 1: that opens up into a courtyard, it's gonna feel good, 557 00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:16,399 Speaker 1: it's pleasing. Um. Functual practitioners say that's energy. Or hey, 558 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 1: don't don't build a house on a dead end street, um, 559 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,839 Speaker 1: because it blocks the GI I had a friend who 560 00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: lived at a dead end street and it just felt 561 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,200 Speaker 1: like every time I went over there, I felt closed 562 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:29,359 Speaker 1: in and sort of weird. Did he end up killing 563 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 1: his whole family? He did not. He did move though. Um. 564 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:39,719 Speaker 1: They were saved. They were thanks to him moving. Um 565 00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,800 Speaker 1: your office A lot a lot of times these days 566 00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,120 Speaker 1: people will um their new offices. They will take this 567 00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:47,920 Speaker 1: into account. Some very famous people like Richard Branson and 568 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:51,160 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, who enlisted the help of punctual experts to 569 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 1: design their offices because they want that Chi and ergo 570 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 1: money flowing. Yeah, you don't have to be a Richard 571 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: Branson or Donald Trump to arrange or office, whether it's 572 00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,120 Speaker 1: a cubicle or what have you. UM, so that you 573 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,600 Speaker 1: can maximize the flow of chief, you want to do 574 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:10,640 Speaker 1: a little messing around. Supposedly, the one one one thing 575 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,560 Speaker 1: that you want to ensure as much as possible is 576 00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:19,160 Speaker 1: that you're facing the entrance to your office. UM. That way, 577 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,759 Speaker 1: the chief flows correctly towards you, not towards your back. 578 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:24,920 Speaker 1: You don't want the chea at your back. No, remember 579 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:31,400 Speaker 1: the Southern China um, the Southern China Functui placement, the 580 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:36,880 Speaker 1: form school UM. Like you you put your the entrance 581 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,319 Speaker 1: of your house is facing away from a hill, so 582 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,080 Speaker 1: the back of your house backs up to a hill. 583 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: So the chief flows correctly. Same thing. You want the 584 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,560 Speaker 1: entrance to your office to be flowing towards you, facing 585 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:50,399 Speaker 1: it if you If you can't do that, then you 586 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:53,320 Speaker 1: just put up a mirror so you can reflect the 587 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,279 Speaker 1: chief towards you. Yeah, that makes sense. Like you said, 588 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,680 Speaker 1: you want to put something red on the back of 589 00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,879 Speaker 1: your chair to block the chief from your back. Yeah, 590 00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:01,359 Speaker 1: I see now that they think about it, this isn't 591 00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,719 Speaker 1: so bad in here because the the red is to 592 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,439 Speaker 1: our side. It's coming in that door and bouncing off 593 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:08,600 Speaker 1: of that right on to us. So Jerry's really the 594 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,879 Speaker 1: one is getting the short end of the cheese stick here, 595 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:16,399 Speaker 1: really short short into the cheese stick. Um. What else 596 00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:19,800 Speaker 1: can you do? You can put a fountain or a plant. Um, honestly, 597 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,840 Speaker 1: water and wood. Uh. And they said even the picture 598 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,719 Speaker 1: of a waterfall in your cubicle could help your chi 599 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:30,960 Speaker 1: your workplace. Che Again, there's a lot of disagreement about 600 00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:35,080 Speaker 1: what works and what doesn't with traditional function. It's like 601 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,960 Speaker 1: you need to know where magnetic north is and you 602 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,040 Speaker 1: need to orient your building according to that, and whatever 603 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,480 Speaker 1: you do inside is almost irrelevant. Yeah, get rid of 604 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:48,120 Speaker 1: those fluorescent lights though they all agree on that. Sure 605 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:50,719 Speaker 1: know anything about cheat to know that fluorescent lights are 606 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,480 Speaker 1: terrible for you? Agreed? Do you anything else? No? U, 607 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:58,240 Speaker 1: this is it's pretty good overview, I think, right, sure, 608 00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:01,880 Speaker 1: you feel good about it. I feel better than I expected. 609 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:06,120 Speaker 1: How's your g It's fine? Yeah, all right, it's it's 610 00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:08,640 Speaker 1: not out of balance, it's not jumping for joy. It's 611 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:13,560 Speaker 1: just it is today got you. Uh. If you want 612 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,000 Speaker 1: to know more about chi or fung shui or any 613 00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,680 Speaker 1: stuff like that, you can type those words in the 614 00:38:19,719 --> 00:38:21,560 Speaker 1: search bart how stuff works. And since I said that 615 00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:26,040 Speaker 1: it's time for a listener mail, I'm gonna call this 616 00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:30,200 Speaker 1: g e D success story. 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