WEBVTT - How Feng Shui Works 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:04.520 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff Works 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:13.240 dot com. Hey, I'm welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. 0:00:13.280 --> 0:00:16.720 There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, uh, and Jerry's over there. 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.639 So it's the stuff you should know. Our chi is flowing, 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.840 baby chee or key. Yeah. There's a lot of different 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.280 pronunciations that are gonna happen today. Well supposedly. Um, it's 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:32.400 just the different spellings the same pronunciation. Q i and 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.880 h i are both cheap. Yeah, um, unless they're saying 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.000 kai for c h i, in which kids it's something 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.920 totally different. Yeah, that's that would be the Greek letter correct. Um, 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.199 that means energy. Are we going to pronounce this fung shui? 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:52.080 I usually say fung chui fui, but it could go 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:55.120 either way. I mean, it depends. If it's Mandarin that 0:00:55.160 --> 0:01:00.480 we're speaking, Chuck, Yeah, we should say fong shui fun. 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:03.920 I guess I usually say it in Mandarin fun chui. 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:09.880 If we're speaking in Cantonese, we would say fung suite. Okay, 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.080 So I guess we're gonna go with the Mandarin. Alright, great, 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.039 okay with you. Yeah, and Uh I even looked up 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:20.440 because I've always said Tao is um um. Yeah, that's right, right. Well, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.680 a lot of people say there's been some confusion. So 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:25.560 I actually looked it up and this author, Derrek Lynn, 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.840 had a nice little thing. The first the misconception, he says, 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:33.640 is that the first letter in t a o daw 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.480 is an approximation of a Chinese sound that does not 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:40.440 have an exact English equivalent, because apparently in England, I 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.640 think they say Taoism. But he says that's actually not true. 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.680 There is an equivalent, and it is a d And 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.440 he said the misconception was created by an author who 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.440 had no understanding of Chinese and that was spread around. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.640 He did not name the author, but apparently as he 0:01:56.680 --> 0:02:01.920 had high academic standing, Jonathan Franz, and so he said 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.720 it is Daoism if you're speaking in English, and that 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.600 this author has uh spread a mistruth that there is 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:17.160 no real translation. Nice. There you go. That was the 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.560 glossary of this episode pretty much. So, uh, well, let's 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:26.320 talk about she first man, because fun is the the 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:32.120 practice of allowing ch to flow in the best possible way, 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:37.160 and she is the Chinese concept of the energy that 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:42.880 pervades and permeates the universe, including us, and it is 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:44.760 linked to Taoism and goes all the way back to 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:49.240 sixth century BC. And um, like you said, it's uh, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.080 it's supposedly something that can't even be described in language. 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.840 But you did a pretty good job, I think for 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.760 someone who uh supposedly is not supposed to be able 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:03.480 to do that. The thing is, well, I'm obviously an 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:08.640 incredible person. The thing is, um, this ch this energy 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.840 can be blocked, it can fall out of balance. There's 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:17.240 it's not self correcting necessarily. Sometimes it needs help, that's right. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.320 And so when we inhabit an area, build a home, 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.800 a community, palace, what have you, we need to build 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:27.600 it in such a way that it's not going to 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:32.160 block this chi or it's not going to um throw 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.920 things out of balance, because we will be impacted negatively 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.840 if it if that happens, that's right. Because in the 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.520 East there is a long held belief that the space 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:46.040 we inhabit is not just the space we live in, 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.840 but we are actually connected to that uh spiritually and 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:55.400 with our energy. And um that the way you lay 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:59.360 out your home and the way you build like even 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.160 where you play your home on your property and the 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:06.520 way you align it with the surrounding nature. It's actually 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.600 very important part of it. Um. That is functual, which 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:16.279 is translated literally as wind and water. Right, pretty neat. Um. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.120 A lot of people in the West have jumped on 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:21.400 this train since the nineteen eighties. It's very uh popular 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:26.240 thing to do. Um, often misguided attempts. Um. As far 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:30.840 as traditional functuation, Well, it's like a completely different school. Yeah, basically, um, 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:34.560 not basically entirely, but um. A lot of people in 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:37.640 the West also will poopoo this, and a lot of 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.800 people in the East poopoo it. Now apparently only about 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.440 a third of people in modern China even believe it 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.480 is a thing. Um. Well, Chairman Mao rooted it out 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:49.000 during the Cultural Revolution. Yeah, I mean it is. It is. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.839 It's not illegal to practice it. It is illegal though, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:56.720 to start a business in China modern China where you 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:01.400 say that you're doing functually. Um, But they can't really like, well, 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.800 I guess you could allow the practice. They outlaw lots 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.880 of stuff from what I've been told. But um, apparently 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.360 the younger generation it's even less than a third. It's 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.920 just kind of going the way of the Dodo. But hey, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.720 we picked up on it in California and then ran 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.719 with it. Yeah, you know, especially in the eighties. Yeah, sure, man, 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.599 that was a super eighties thing. But a lot of 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.479 people poopoo it though, as they do a lot of 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:23.720 things in the ease and saying this is just a 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.480 bunch of superstitious gobbadygook. There's no such thing as an 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.440 energy flowing through your house or your body that needs 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:34.159 to be aligned. So we're not here to uh, we're 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.239 just gonna explain it to you exactly, So just save 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:42.480 your emails people. So, um, what's interesting about fung hui 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.960 initially is that not not just China but also India 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.840 lay claim to its origins. Actually, that's right, um, And 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.880 remember I think you you did a pretty good job 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.719 defining it. But which it's they're saying again, funcui is 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:01.839 this practice of arranging your in have, your your abode, 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:07.679 your life, your workspace, um in a way that allows 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:12.120 che to flow freely. That's right, okay, um. And there 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:17.160 was there's evidence I think back three thousand years ago, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:24.159 no sorry years ago, so about BC there is evidence 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:28.680 of what the Indians call Vastu Shastra, which is basically 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.200 a translation of building science, which is that you should 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:37.200 follow certain practices, use certain geometries to allow energy to 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:41.760 flow so that you can prosper and not be harmed negatively. Yeah, 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.920 and uh, this is um been seeing many times. I've 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.760 read a great article in UH, I think it was 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.120 history today by guy named Anthony Evini called bringing the 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:56.320 Sky down to Earth, with basically the idea that many 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.640 many cities through history have been built with this concept 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.400 in my and that the gods bringing the gods down 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:08.919 to your city, Like you know, he's a stonehenge, Beijing, Washington, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:13.320 d c Uh and m this place in Mexico that 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:19.000 I will pronounce as Theo t Hua Kan. I don't 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.800 know if that's right. It's like a Mayan ancient Mayan city, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:27.280 and they all have the same um philosophy of mine, 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.800 which is apparently if you go to Beijing, it's very 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.320 famous for its layout. As his d c. You can 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.480 stand in Tienamen Square and you can draw a straight 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.360 line up the bell and drum towers, straight through to 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:42.520 the monument to the People's Heroes, to the Masoli liam 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.880 of Mao z Dong on a perfect north south axis, 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:51.360 like everything is planned out. And this is I'm not 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:55.720 saying Washington, d C. Was necessarily fung swid Fun said, 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.120 and I know that you shouldn't use that as a verb, 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.160 but I'm going to It works. But it's it's the 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.520 idea like Stonehenge, that the it's the cities are aligned 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.400 cosmically somehow with the stars in mind. And it can 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:13.640 be as simple as um the entrance to the dwelling 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.880 or the city, or the burial mound or temple or Stonehenge, 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:22.240 whatever is aligned so that the sun comes right up 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.720 through it on the winter solstice or thing. That that 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.360 is the basis of fung hui, and it does show 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.760 up in other cultures across time. Yeah. One of the 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.000 one of the famous cities that was laid out according 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:41.520 to um, this Indian version of it, Vastu Shastra as 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:47.079 um ankor Watt in Cambodia, very famous temple. Those were 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.800 built and I think the thirteenth century CE. So it's 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.120 not evidence that the Indians were first, but there is 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.720 evidence elsewhere that that there were Indian cities and buildings 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.120 planned out according to these and the idea was is 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:05.000 that a couple of thousand years later, some Indian monks, 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:09.240 Hindu monks made their way into maybe to bed or 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:13.960 Mongolia or China and started spreading the vast Shastra. And 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.400 that's when China got their hands on it and turned 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.920 it into what we now recognize this functually. That's one 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.840 interpretation of the origin of the whole thing. Yeah, and 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:26.640 and either way, what both of them are doing is 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:32.040 looking and taking into accounts, uh the five elements earth, water, fire, air, 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:36.920 and space and how they affect uh, your your pad 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.120 and um or your city, like you said, our community 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.640 or temple um. And some people might say, well, this 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:45.920 is you know, you might want to call it functual. 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.240 But I'm just building a house and I think we've 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.280 got this lovely mountain view, and I like the sunrise 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.960 to come up through my kitchen because I like a 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.280 bright kitchen. So that's how I'm going to build my house. 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.080 People that practice function, I would say, brother, that's function, 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:04.440 that's a t s. You know, it's just how I 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:07.400 like to build my house. And you know that. Yeah, 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.800 And then they fight, that's right, They leg wrestle for domination. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.120 So that though, would be more Western functuation. And we'll 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.439 get into it. But Basically, the distinction between Western functional 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:25.160 eighties function and Classic Functui UM is the amount of 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:31.320 scientific formulae put into it, the amount of calculations at 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.680 least that are put into it, the amount of thought. 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:38.160 It's like Western function is Functui light and not even 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:40.160 l I G h T like l I T E 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:44.840 like that kind of eighties light. Yeah, well, we might 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:46.880 as well talk about the schools. Then it's a great 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.680 before we do. Though, sorry to interrupt the segua because 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.000 it was pretty good. We should say that UM. Most 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.280 historians now believe that it was actually China that came 0:10:56.360 --> 0:11:01.320 up with Yeah, just the evidence is is just earlier 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:06.319 for the idea that it originated with burials in China, 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.079 Like you buried people a certain way and you built 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.720 the burial grounds in a certain way, according to Functual. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.240 So what you're saying is they leg wrestled and he 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.120 won the leg wrestle. Very good. Uh So the different 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.240 schools UM, there are a lot of variations, but the 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:26.520 three main categories are the form school, which was from 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.960 southern China, and that is heavily based on the environment. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.800 Like we were talking about Classic Functual, it's the oldest 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.400 form and that's when you're talking about and back then 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.920 it was practical because what they were trying to do 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:43.120 is build a safe place for your house to be. Um. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.280 So maybe you uh set your house up with the 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:50.760 wind block at the mountains, with that landscape that slopes, 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.559 or you know, the water flowing down to you is 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:55.960 super important, so you may want to open your house 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.320 up to that. But it was it was practical though, 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:03.880 right exactly. Um. And another practical way of um figuring 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:05.400 out where to put your house is found in the 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:09.280 compass school. That one just forget about it. That's that's 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.680 the one I understand the most. This one makes the 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.080 most sense to me. Yeah, because it's math and you're 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.959 like weird like that, well a little maybe a little bit. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:21.160 But basically what this says is it's kind of like 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:25.480 the form school where you're looking for different features of 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:29.280 the landscape to to most benefit where to build your house. 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.120 But this is this is using that same kind of 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:37.600 thought process but aligning it with magnetism and the stars 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:41.400 to write right, well, you're using the stars to determine magnetism, 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.400 like which way is north and south and that kind 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:47.800 of thing. But it does combine some math, Chinese astrology, 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:52.240 and then fun sui together and you get what's called 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.200 the compass school, which is also very frequently known as 0:12:55.240 --> 0:13:00.280 traditional Functui, and it includes a lot of detail old 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:04.679 research to figure out exactly what you're supposed to do 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:06.960 where your house is supposed to be facing, if it 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.560 is facing a certain way, of what you can do 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.160 to kind of correct it. There's just a ton of 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.360 thought and calculation put into what we'll learn later is 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:18.840 called the Bogwa map. So that's that's mostly the traditional 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.280 school is the compass school, and it's based on the 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:26.520 idea that magnetism dictates which way your whole jam should 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:30.280 be facing and oriented. And I think to the north 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.880 is the right way. That's the right way, where as 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.920 far as your entry way, yes, okay uh. And then 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:41.240 we have um what the Westerners have latched onto um 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:46.360 the Black Hat sect or that's nomina it does or 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:51.600 the Black sect Esoteric Buddhism Functional which was UM founded 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:56.240 by Professor Thomas Lynn Jun who was known UM and 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.520 believed to be an enlightened man and Um he basically 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.840 came to the West and founded this sect of functual 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.679 and it blew up and Um, Westerners, I love this 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.400 one because it's the one that most easily translates to 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.640 an h G TV show, right, you know, like put 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.040 this plant there, put a fountain there, put your door 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.040 here and painted this color, and and you're going to 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.520 be wealthy and successful. Don't put this there, don't put 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.440 that there. It's it's a lot of object placement. So 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.000 it's easy for us dummies over here to understand it's 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:34.040 basically interior design pretty much. So we'll talk a little 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.400 more about the distinction and then what some of the 0:14:36.760 --> 0:15:03.560 commonalities they have are right after this, so chuck the 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.080 black Hat school. It's hilarious to me, like, why would 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.560 you call it that? I don't know. I'm sure there 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.880 was a great reason I couldn't find it anywhere. What 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.160 I found instead is that most people call it Western function, 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:22.320 and a lot of functual practitioners pooh pooh Western. They're 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:29.080 like this this is some like perversion of an interpretation 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.880 of functui. Yeah, it's it's americanized, um, and it's taught 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.360 by people who don't even necessarily aren't functual masters, even 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:40.520 though just if they can set up a website and say, 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.800 pay me a thousand dollars, I'll come and tell you 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:45.800 where to put your plants exactly. But Thomas lynn Un 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:50.680 and his followers say, no, we had we had the basics, Like, yeah, definitely, 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:57.840 traditional functual is very detailed, very um mathematically oriented. But 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.920 we're still getting the same point across, coming to the 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:05.760 same conclusions and just an easier corner cutting way. That's right. 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:07.600 Why go to all the trouble if you can get 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:12.400 the same results. What's more Western than that? Good point? Uh? 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.200 So should we talk about um the five elements a 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.800 little bit? I guess yes. UM, Like I said, there 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.840 is earth, fire, metal, water, and wood, and these are 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.920 the phases through which the energy or the g or 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.800 the key moves. And UM, I think this article said 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.400 it very well. It's like a sort of a game 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.280 of rock paper scissors. If you look at a creative 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:38.640 or productive UM way in which these elements can interact, uh, 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:44.520 you have would producing fire, Uh, fire produces earth av 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:50.640 as an ash, Earth produces metal, UM, metal produces water, 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.320 water produces wood, metal producing water. Don't get that one, 0:16:55.280 --> 0:17:00.200 mm hmm, all the rest of them like yeah, made sense, Lie, 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:05.560 refrigerator's metal and it has a water dispenser in the day. Yeah. Uh. 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.800 And then you have the destructive. This is when it's 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.119 bad chi. And if you look at the little illustration 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.680 on how stuff works on the on the first one, 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.879 you have this great circle of arrows and it's just lovely, 0:17:15.960 --> 0:17:18.840 and this other one has a a nasty bunch of 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.720 arrows just laying all over one another, and it's just 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:26.400 a big mess. Yeah, like um would burdens earth. Yeah, 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.680 nobody wants that. Water douses fire. That's a clear one. Sure, 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:34.280 um metal chops would, Yes, it does, it does. There's 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:38.399 there's uh. So the the interaction between these elements in 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.440 your house, or the way you arrange your house will 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:47.800 determine whether these phases of CHI are destructive or productive 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.360 in their interactions together. And if you have too much 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:52.960 of one thing, you need to balance it out with 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:57.680 something else productively exactly the other two for destructive. Our 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:01.320 fire melts metal and earth blocks water like a damn. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.359 You don't want a damn. You want the water flowing. Baby. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.880 You know you forgot hulk smash? Is that the other one? Yea, 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:12.560 the final one, and then uh, the yin yang. We 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:16.680 can't go any further. Without mentioning that. No, it's basically 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:22.960 a really clever conception of chi. Yeah, opposite states of cheek, 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:28.440 light and dark, night and day, young and old man woman. Sure, 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.720 and there there's actually a way that it's supposed to 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.359 be properly represented. The white is supposed to be on 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:38.000 top because the white represents in part heat, and the 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.639 idea is that heat rises, but they're they're both constantly 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:43.960 in motion. But if you ever see a yin and 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:48.600 yang symbol displayed, though, the lighter one should be on top, 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:51.240 that's right, and not only heat for the white, but 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:56.760 masculinity and spirit and hardness and activity where it's yang 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:58.840 by the way, Yeah, oh yeah, we didn't point that out, 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:02.199 and it's not yang yang by the way. We I 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.359 used to say it that way. I think everybody did it, 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.919 sure at some point, and yeah, I quipped in my 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:21.320 early forties, Um, it's yes. Uh. The yen h is femininity, femininity, matter, nighttime, coldness, softness, passivity, 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.720 and as long as you want those things balanced and 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.080 the way they just fit together in that little circle. Man, 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:29.000 it's just like it's pleasing to the eye. And I 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.760 think that's kind of says it all. You know, it 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:35.439 just looks nice. It's not jagged. It's like it's like 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:39.600 two people just cuddling up, you know, in the form 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.800 of a tattoo you wish you hadn't gotten. That's right 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.879 with some maybe Chinese characters that you don't know what 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:50.840 they mean any longer. Uh there, Um, well, I guess 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:54.040 we're the bagua right, Yeah, so this has made sense 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:57.680 to me. Right. Um, Remember what we're dealing with here 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.800 is she. She flows through the five elements, and you 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.240 deal with the five elements in your house. To figure 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.200 out where in your house you need a little more 0:20:06.240 --> 0:20:10.800 of one element than another, you have to construct a 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.160 Bogua map. Yeah, like this is where the rubber meets 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.000 the road. We've been talking in esoteric terms. But if 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.600 you're like, great, dudes, what does this mean for my 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.040 freaking living room? This is what it means for your 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.959 freaking living room. Yeah. And the Bogua map is based 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:31.879 on boxes squares. They're the basic units of um of 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:36.560 Functionali nine squares three by three. Uh. And you take 0:20:36.600 --> 0:20:42.199 those squares and somehow this is really clever too. But 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.040 even though there's nine squares, you can take them and 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.000 turn them into a hexagon. If you take the center 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:52.400 square and convert that into well as center, and then 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:56.400 the eight boxes around it become eight sides of a hexagon. 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:59.280 If you shave off a little here or there, and 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:03.760 all of a sudden you have are is a bogwa. Yeah, 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:08.520 and they can represent color as well as um these 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:12.400 elements as well as for the actual map that you're 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:16.080 going to use UM for laying out your home aspects 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:21.479 of your life, like you know, career and wealth and uh, 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:24.359 prosperity and love and marriage and things like that. Right, 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.600 So there's multiple meanings. And it also is if you've 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.400 seen the TV show Lost, they totally ripped it off 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:34.280 with the dharma collective symbol. It is just that is 0:21:34.320 --> 0:21:37.400 nothing more than the bogwa grid with the yin yang 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:41.120 in the center right, and the yin yang is frequently 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:45.320 represented in the center is yellow correct, yep. Yellow is 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:48.040 the center of the Bogua map, which is actually the 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:50.960 center of this nine squared box called the low shoe 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:55.200 square UM. And in each of the different boxes there 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:58.239 is a static representation. So this is this is what 0:21:58.280 --> 0:22:00.679 you need to know about the Bagua map. It is 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:06.800 hexagon that the placement is always the same what you 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.200 do is you take your Bagua map and you oriented 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:12.720 a certain way over your house, over your your actual 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:14.600 house or the room in your house or something like that, 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:18.879 and that's what changes. So if you look at the 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:21.280 Bogwa square, the yellow is always center and then black, 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:26.960 which represents water and career um is always at the bottom. Okay, 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:31.240 yeah a k A supposed to be the entrance to 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:35.440 that room or your home, Okay, exactly, So yeah, it's 0:22:35.440 --> 0:22:38.760 not necessarily always at the bottom, it's always at the entrance. Well, 0:22:38.840 --> 0:22:41.760 you placed the bottom at the entrance, so if I 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.960 were to walk into my house, you can either visualize 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:48.560 it or you can literally draw this uh square. You 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:52.879 want the bottom which is uh the bottom, center is 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:57.240 career or water. Bottom right is helpful people in travel, 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:00.960 bottom left is knowledge and self cultivation. You just want 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:03.439 to find out where your front door is. In my case, 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:05.640 mine is pretty much in the center of my home, 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:10.480 which would be career, but it could fall if your 0:23:10.520 --> 0:23:12.639 doors on your left, it would fall under knowledge and 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:15.840 self cultivation. So it's it's not like you move the 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:19.720 map over to to to help yourself out. Like where 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:21.760 your door is is where it is. You can move 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:24.120 it if you want, Yeah, you could move your door. 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:29.560 But basically the map is just supposed to be static, okay. 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:32.359 So and it's static, like you said, it's oriented um 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:35.640 with the black on the entrance, right, no matter where 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:39.240 the entrance is, the black is on the the black 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:42.960 is there. So when you orient your your black box 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:46.679 onto your entrance, what you're doing then is using your 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:50.200 Bogwa map to show you how you need to change 0:23:50.200 --> 0:23:54.560 your house in order to maximize the flow of chee 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:57.040 through it. Yeah, it's basically And by the way, you 0:23:57.080 --> 0:24:02.920 shouldn't supposedly use any additions build you should do those separately. Okay. 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:05.280 So if you if you're living room has a big 0:24:05.320 --> 0:24:07.760 new addition to the lefty like, you shouldn't even include that. 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:10.640 So basically you're what you're doing is you're you're dividing 0:24:10.960 --> 0:24:15.239 your space up into zones according to this grid. And 0:24:15.280 --> 0:24:18.480 so if you were to look at my house according 0:24:18.520 --> 0:24:23.080 to the low shoe square, uh, my TV would be 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:26.800 in the wealth and prosperity corner, which is probably not good. 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:33.400 You're gonna make money on TV. That didn't exactly happen. Uh, 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:36.359 My couch is the knowledge and self cultivation. I'm not 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:39.200 sure what that means. And then my sun room would 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:41.960 be helpful people in travel, that's what that means either. 0:24:42.800 --> 0:24:45.640 And in the center is my coffee table. The if 0:24:45.680 --> 0:24:47.160 I wanted to have good cheat to have a yellow 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:51.280 rug there, Yeah, but I don't, but you should. We 0:24:51.320 --> 0:24:54.919 have some nice tile squares of varying colors, so you 0:24:54.960 --> 0:24:57.760 can do that, chuck for every room of your house. 0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:01.880 And you're supposed to like, like you just said, well, 0:25:02.400 --> 0:25:04.200 now I know where I should put a yellow rug 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:05.760 in my in my house, Like you would want to 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:07.760 put that in the center of where the Bogua map 0:25:07.800 --> 0:25:11.399 falls over that room, right, Um you might also so 0:25:11.520 --> 0:25:14.720 for example, um, if you just kind of had a 0:25:14.800 --> 0:25:18.480