1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Hi, everybody. I hope your couch is in the right place, 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: and I hope the door is facing the right direction, 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:11,119 Speaker 1: and I hope everything in your house is set up 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: exactly how it should be to bring you great peace 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:24,239 Speaker 1: and relaxation tranquility. Because with the show from February, we 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:26,720 Speaker 1: will tell you all about the ins and outs of 7 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:31,319 Speaker 1: fung sway from our episode how feng Shui works. It 8 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 1: was a good one and I think we got it 9 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:35,680 Speaker 1: mostly right, which is not bad for us, So please 10 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:42,519 Speaker 1: enjoy it all over again. Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, 11 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:51,920 Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to the podcast. 12 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,120 Speaker 1: I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w. Chok, Bryant uh and 13 00:00:55,400 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: Jerry's over there. So this's the stuff you should know. 14 00:00:58,720 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: URCHI is one baby cheer or key. Yeah. There's a 15 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,319 Speaker 1: lot of different pronunciations that are gonna happen today. Well supposedly, Um, 16 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:11,920 Speaker 1: it's just the different spellings same pronunciation. Q I and 17 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 1: h i are both cheap. Yeah, um, unless they're saying 18 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,520 Speaker 1: kai for c h I, in which kids had something 19 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 1: totally different. Yeah, that's that would be the Greek letter 20 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: correct um that means energy. Are we going to pronounce 21 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: this fung shui. I usually say fung chui fungi, but 22 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: they could go either way. I mean, it depends. If 23 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 1: it's Mandarin that we're speaking, Chuck, Yeah, we should say 24 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,240 Speaker 1: fong shui funui. I guess I usually say it in 25 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,319 Speaker 1: Mandarin fun hui. If we're speaking in Cantonese, we would 26 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: say fung sui. Okay, So I guess we're gonna go 27 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 1: with the Mandarin. Alright, great, Is that okay with you? Yeah? 28 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:56,520 Speaker 1: And Uh, I even looked up because I've always said 29 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 1: Tao is um um Yeah, that's right, right. Well, a 30 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 1: lot of people say there's been some confusion, so I 31 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: actually looked it up. And this author, Derrek Lenn had 32 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: a nice little thing. The first the misconception, he says, 33 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: is that the first letter in t a o daw 34 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: is an approximation of a Chinese sound that does not 35 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 1: have an exact English equivalent, because apparently in England, I 36 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: think they say Taoism. But he says that's actually not true. 37 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: There is an equivalent, and it is a d And 38 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: he said the misconception was created by an author who 39 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,960 Speaker 1: had no understanding of Chinese, and that was spread around. 40 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 1: He did not name the author, but apparently has he 41 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:41,480 Speaker 1: had high academic standing. Jathan friends in and so he said, 42 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:45,240 Speaker 1: it is Taoism if you're speaking in English, and that 43 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 1: this author has uh spread a mistruth that there is 44 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: no real translation. So that was fun. Nice. There you go. 45 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:00,760 Speaker 1: That was the glossary of this episode pretty much. So well, 46 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:05,480 Speaker 1: let's talk about chi first man, because fungi is the 47 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 1: the practice of allowing chi to flow in the best 48 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 1: possible way. And she is the Chinese concept of the 49 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: energy that pervades and permeates the universe, including us, and 50 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,040 Speaker 1: it is linked to Taoism and goes all the way 51 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:28,000 Speaker 1: back to sixth century BC. And um, like you said, 52 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,559 Speaker 1: it's uh, it's supposedly something that can't even be described 53 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,679 Speaker 1: in language, so I even try. But you did a 54 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: pretty good job. I think, thanks for someone who uh 55 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: supposedly is not supposed to be able to do that. 56 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: The thing is, well, I'm obviously an incredible person. The 57 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: thing is, um, this chi, this energy can be blocked, 58 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: it can fall out of balance. There's it's not self 59 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: correcting necessarily. Sometimes it needs help, that's right. And so 60 00:03:57,760 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 1: when we inhabit an area, build a home, community palace, 61 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 1: what have you. We need to build it in such 62 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,280 Speaker 1: a way that it's not going to block this chet 63 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:12,720 Speaker 1: or it's not going to um throw things out of balance, 64 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 1: because we will be impacted negatively if it If that happens, 65 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 1: that's right, because in the East there is a long 66 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:24,440 Speaker 1: held belief that the space we inhabit is not just 67 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: a space we live in, but we are actually connected 68 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 1: to that uh spiritually and with our energy and UM 69 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: that the way you lay out your home and the 70 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: way you build like even where you place your home 71 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: on your property, and the way you align it with 72 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: the surrounding nature. That's actually very important part of it. UM. 73 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 1: That is functual, which is translated literally as wind and water, right, 74 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,039 Speaker 1: pretty neat UM. A lot of people in the West 75 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: have jumped on this train since the nineteen eighties. It's 76 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 1: very a popular thing to do. UM. Often misguided attempts. 77 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: UM as far as traditional functuation, Well, it's like a 78 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: completely different school. Yeah, basically, um, not basically entirely, yeah, 79 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:14,919 Speaker 1: but UM. A lot of people in the West also 80 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: will poopoo this, and a lot of people in the 81 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 1: East poopoo it. Now apparently only about a third of 82 00:05:19,760 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: people in modern China even believe it is a thing. Um, well, 83 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 1: Chairman Mao rooted it out during the Cultural Revolution. Yeah, 84 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: I mean it is. It is. It's not illegal to 85 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,040 Speaker 1: practice it. It is illegal though, to start a business 86 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: in China, modern China, where you say that you're doing functuation. Um, 87 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 1: but they can't really like, well, I guess it could 88 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 1: allow the practice. They outlaw lots of stuff from what 89 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: I've been told. But um, apparently the younger generation it's 90 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,599 Speaker 1: even less than a third. It's just kind of going 91 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:51,960 Speaker 1: the way of the Dodo. But hey, we picked up 92 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 1: on it in California and ran with it, you know, 93 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,719 Speaker 1: especially in the eighties. Yeah, sure, man, that was a 94 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 1: super eighties thing. But lot of people poopoo it though, 95 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: as they do a lot of things in the East 96 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: and saying this is just a bunch of superstitious gobbitygook. 97 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: There is no such thing as an energy flowing through 98 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,640 Speaker 1: your house or your body that needs to be aligned. 99 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:14,440 Speaker 1: So we're not here to uh, We're just gonna explain 100 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:20,400 Speaker 1: it to you exactly. So just save your emails people. So, um, 101 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 1: what's interesting about fung hui initially is that not not 102 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 1: just China, but also India lay claim to its origins. 103 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:31,720 Speaker 1: Actually that's um. And remember I think you you did 104 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:34,320 Speaker 1: a pretty good job defining it, but we should it's 105 00:06:34,320 --> 00:06:39,799 Speaker 1: bear saying again. Funcui is this practice of arranging your inhabit, 106 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: your your abode, your life, your workspace, UM in a 107 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 1: way that allows che to flow freely. That's right, okay, Um, 108 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:56,320 Speaker 1: And there was there's evidence I think back three thousand 109 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: years ago, no, sorry years ago, so about BC. Yeah, 110 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 1: there is evidence of what the Indians call Vastu shastra, 111 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:10,880 Speaker 1: which is basically a translation of building science, which is 112 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: that you should follow certain practices, use certain geometries to 113 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: allow energy to flow so that you can prosper and 114 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: not be harmed negatively. Yeah, and uh, this is um 115 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 1: been seeing many times. I've read a great article in uh, 116 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: I think it was history today by guy named Anthony 117 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: Evini called bringing the Sky down to Earth, with basically 118 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: the idea that many many cities through history have been 119 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,120 Speaker 1: built with this concept in mind, that the gods bringing 120 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: the gods down to your city, like you know, he's 121 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: a Stonehenge, Beijing, Washington, d c uh and m hmm. 122 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:55,800 Speaker 1: This place of Mexico that I will pronounce as d 123 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: O t hua Kan. I don't know if that's right. 124 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: It's like in myan ancient Mian city, and they all 125 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:08,120 Speaker 1: have the same um philosophy and mine, which is apparently 126 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: if you go to Beijing, it's very famous for its layout, 127 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: as is d C. You can stand in Tienamen Square 128 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: and you can draw a straight line up the bell 129 00:08:15,800 --> 00:08:18,840 Speaker 1: and drum towers straight through to the Monument to the 130 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:23,360 Speaker 1: People's Heroes, to the Masoli liam of Mao z Dong 131 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: on a perfect north south axis, like everything is planned out. 132 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 1: And this is I'm not saying Washington d C was 133 00:08:32,920 --> 00:08:36,880 Speaker 1: necessarily fun suid functuad, and I know that you shouldn't 134 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: use that as a verb, but I'm going to. But 135 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,880 Speaker 1: it's it's the idea like Stonehenge, that the it's the 136 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:47,439 Speaker 1: cities are aligned cosmically somehow with the stars in mind. 137 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:51,400 Speaker 1: And it can be as simple as um, the entrance 138 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:56,000 Speaker 1: to the dwelling or the city, or the burial mound 139 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:00,280 Speaker 1: or temple or Stonehenge, whatever is aligned so that the 140 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: sun comes right up through it on the winter solstice, 141 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: or sure that that is the basis of fung hui, 142 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 1: and it does show up in other cultures across time. Yeah. 143 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 1: One of the one of the famous cities that was 144 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:18,679 Speaker 1: laid out according to UM, this Indian version of it, 145 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 1: Vastu Shastra as um ankor Watt in Cambodia, very famous temple. 146 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: Those were built and I think the thirteenth century CE. 147 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: So it's not evidence that the Indians were first, but 148 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: there is evidence elsewhere that that there were Indian cities 149 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:39,320 Speaker 1: and buildings planned out according to these and the idea 150 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: was that a couple of thousand years later, some Indian monks, 151 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 1: Hindu monks, made their way into maybe too bed or 152 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 1: Mongolia or China and started spreading the vast Shastra And 153 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,959 Speaker 1: that's when China got their hands on it and turned 154 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,480 Speaker 1: it into what we now recognize as Functui. That's one 155 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: interpretation of the origin of the whole thing. Yeah, And 156 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: and either way, what both of them are doing is 157 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 1: looking and taking two accounts uh the five elements earth, water, fire, 158 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: air and space and how they affect uh, your your 159 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: pad and um or your city, like you said, our 160 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 1: community or temple UM. And some people might say, well 161 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,080 Speaker 1: this is you know, you might want to call it 162 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: functual but I'm just building a house, and I think 163 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: we've got this lovely mountain view, and I like the 164 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: sunrise to come up through my kitchen because I like 165 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: a bright kitchen. So that's how I'm going to build 166 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: my house. People that practice functional, I would say, brother, 167 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:43,880 Speaker 1: that's functuate A T S. You know, it's just how 168 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:45,480 Speaker 1: I like to build my house. And they, you know, 169 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,719 Speaker 1: that's functual. And then they fight, that's right, they lay 170 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: wrestle or domination. So that, though, would be more Western functuation. 171 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:58,520 Speaker 1: We'll get into it. But basically, the distinction between Western 172 00:10:58,559 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: functual eighties function way and classic functui um is the 173 00:11:04,000 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 1: amount of scientific formulae put into it, the amount of 174 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 1: calculations at least that are put into it, the amount 175 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: of thought. It's like, Western functual is functual light and 176 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:19,240 Speaker 1: not even l I G H T like L I 177 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,880 Speaker 1: T E like that kind of eighties light. Yeah, well 178 00:11:24,120 --> 00:11:26,120 Speaker 1: we might as well talk about the schools. Then it's 179 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: a great seg before we do. Though, sorry to interrupt 180 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: the segua because it was pretty good. We should say that. Um. 181 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: Most historians now believe that it was actually China that 182 00:11:35,679 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: came up with. Yeah, just the evidence is is just 183 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 1: earlier for the idea that it originated with burials in China, 184 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,640 Speaker 1: Like you bury people a certain way, and you built 185 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: the burial grounds in a certain way according to functui. 186 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: So what you're saying is they leg wrestled. They won 187 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 1: the leg wrestle very good. So the different schools, um, 188 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:01,320 Speaker 1: There are a lot of variations, but the three main 189 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 1: categories are the form school, which was from southern China, 190 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: and that is heavily based on the environment. Like we 191 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 1: were talking about classic functional, it's the oldest form and 192 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,200 Speaker 1: that's when you're talking about and back then it was 193 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:18,959 Speaker 1: practical because what they were trying to do is build 194 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: a safe place for your house to be. UM. So 195 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,280 Speaker 1: maybe you uh set your house up with a wind 196 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: block at the mountains with that landscape that slopes or 197 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 1: you know, the water flowing down to you is super important, 198 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,440 Speaker 1: so you may want to open your house up to that. Yeah, 199 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:39,760 Speaker 1: but it was. It was practical though, right exactly. UM. 200 00:12:39,840 --> 00:12:43,880 Speaker 1: And another practical way of um figuring out where to 201 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: put your house is found in the compass school. That 202 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: one just forget about it. That's that's the one I 203 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,760 Speaker 1: understand the most. Really, this one makes the most sense 204 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, because it's math and you're like weird 205 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:57,640 Speaker 1: like that, well a little maybe a little bit. But 206 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 1: basically what this says is it it's kind of like 207 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:05,000 Speaker 1: the form school where you're looking for different features of 208 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: the landscape to to most benefit where to build your house. Sure, 209 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: but this is this is using that same kind of 210 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: thought process but aligning it with magnetism and the stars. 211 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 1: To write, right, well, you're using the stars to determine magnetism, 212 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,960 Speaker 1: like which way is north and south and that kind 213 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 1: of thing. But it does combine some math, Chinese astrology, 214 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: and then fung shui together and you get that what's 215 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:34,600 Speaker 1: called the compass school, which is also very frequently known 216 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: as traditional funcui, and it includes a lot of detailed 217 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: research to figure out exactly what you're supposed to do 218 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:46,480 Speaker 1: where your house is supposed to be facing, if it 219 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: is facing a certain way, what you can do to 220 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 1: kind of correct it. There's just a ton of thought 221 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 1: and calculation put into what we'll learn later is called 222 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,679 Speaker 1: the Bogue map. So that's that's mostly the traditional school 223 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 1: is the compass school, and it's based on the idea 224 00:14:01,320 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: that magnetism dictates which way your whole jam should be 225 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 1: facing and oriented. Okay, and I think to the north 226 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: is the right way. That's the right way. Where as 227 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,439 Speaker 1: far as your entry way, yes, okay uh. And then 228 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: we have, um what the Westerners have latched onto, um 229 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:26,000 Speaker 1: the black Hat sect or that'shenmos it does or the 230 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: black sect esoteric Buddhism Functui, which was founded by Professor 231 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,240 Speaker 1: Thomas Lynn Jun who was known UM and believed to 232 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 1: be an enlightened man. And um he basically came to 233 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 1: the West and founded this sect of Functual and it 234 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:49,000 Speaker 1: blew up and um. Westerners love this one because it's 235 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,600 Speaker 1: the one that most easily translates to an h G 236 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: TV show, right, you know, like put this plant there, 237 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:57,480 Speaker 1: put a fountain there, put your door here and painted 238 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: this color, and and you're going to be wealth unsuccessful. 239 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 1: Don't put this there, don't put that there. It's it's 240 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: a lot of object placement. So it's easy for us 241 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 1: dummies over here to understand. It's basically interior design pretty much. 242 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: So we'll talk a little more about the distinction and 243 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 1: then what some of the commonalities they have are right 244 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:44,800 Speaker 1: after this. So Chuck the black hat school. That's hilarious 245 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: to me, Like, why would you call it that? I 246 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: don't know. I'm sure there was a great reason I 247 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: couldn't find it anywhere. What I found instead is that 248 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: most people call it Western functure, and a lot of 249 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: functual practitioners pooh pooh Western there like this this is 250 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:10,000 Speaker 1: some like perversion of an interpretation of functui. Yeah, it's 251 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: it's americanized um, and it's taught by people who don't 252 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: even necessarily aren't functual masters. Even they'll just if they 253 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,920 Speaker 1: can set up a website and say pay me a 254 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:22,840 Speaker 1: thousand dollars, I'll come and tell you where to put 255 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:27,720 Speaker 1: your plants exactly. But Thomas lynn Un and his followers say, no, 256 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: we had we hit the basics, Like yeah, definitely, traditional 257 00:16:31,160 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: functuation is very detailed, very um mathematically oriented, but we're 258 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 1: still getting the same point across and coming to the 259 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: same conclusions and just an easier corner cutting way. That's right. 260 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 1: Why go to all the trouble if you can get 261 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:52,040 Speaker 1: the same results. What's more Western than that? Good point? Uh? 262 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: So should we talk about um the five elements a 263 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 1: little bit? I guess yes, um. Like I said, there 264 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 1: is earth, fire, metal, water, and would. And these are 265 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: the phases through which the energy or the chi or 266 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,400 Speaker 1: the key moves and um, I think this article said 267 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 1: it very well. It's like a sort of a game 268 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 1: of rock paper scissors. If you look at a creative 269 00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 1: or productive um way in which these elements can interact. Uh, 270 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 1: you have would producing fire. Uh. Fire produces earth av 271 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: as an ash. Earth produces metal, um metal produces water, 272 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: water produces wood, metal producing water. Don't get that one, 273 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:39,359 Speaker 1: mm hmm, all the rest of them, like, yeah, made sense. 274 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: My refrigerators metal and it has a water dispenser. In 275 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 1: the day you have it, is it? Uh? And then 276 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: you have the destructive. This is when the it's bad. 277 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: Che And if you look at the little illustration on 278 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 1: how stuff works on the on the first one, you 279 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,480 Speaker 1: have this great circle of arrows and it's just lovely, 280 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:58,439 Speaker 1: and this other one has a a nasty bunch of 281 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: arrows just laying all over one another, and it's just 282 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: a big mess. Yeah, like um would burdens earth. Yeah, 283 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,320 Speaker 1: nobody wants that. Water douses fire. That's a clear one. Sure, 284 00:18:09,920 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: um metal chops would, Yes, it does. There's there's Uh. So, 285 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 1: the the interaction between these elements in your house, or 286 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:23,600 Speaker 1: the way you arrange your house will determine whether these 287 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: phases of chi are destructive or productive in their interactions together. 288 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: And if you have too much of one thing, you 289 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:35,280 Speaker 1: need to balance it out with something else productively exactly 290 00:18:35,560 --> 00:18:38,720 Speaker 1: the other two for destructive. Our fire melts metal and 291 00:18:38,840 --> 00:18:41,640 Speaker 1: earth blocks water like a damn. You don't want a damn. 292 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 1: You want that water flowing, baby, You know you forgot 293 00:18:44,520 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 1: hulk smash? Was that the other one? The final one? 294 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,800 Speaker 1: And then uh, the yin yang? We can't go any 295 00:18:52,800 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: further without mentioning that. No, it's basically a really clever 296 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 1: conception of chi. Yeah, the opposite states of cheek, light 297 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:08,040 Speaker 1: and dark, night and day, young and old man woman. Sure, 298 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: And there there's actually a way that it's supposed to 299 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,960 Speaker 1: be properly represented. The white is supposed to be on 300 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 1: top because the white represents in part heat, and the 301 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:21,240 Speaker 1: idea is that heat rises, but they're they're both constantly 302 00:19:21,280 --> 00:19:23,560 Speaker 1: in motion. But if you ever see a yin and 303 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 1: yang symbol displayed, though, the lighter one should be on top, 304 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: that's right, And not only heat for the white, but 305 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 1: masculinity and spirit and hardness and activity when it's yang 306 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,439 Speaker 1: by the way. Yeah, oh yeah, we didn't point that out, 307 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 1: and it's not yang yang by the way. We I 308 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: used to say it that way. I think everybody did it, 309 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,520 Speaker 1: sure at some point. And yeah, I equipped in my 310 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: early forties. Um, it's it's yin and yang. Yes. Uh. 311 00:19:52,480 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 1: The yen uh is femininity, femininity, matter, nighttime, coldness, softness, passivity, 312 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,320 Speaker 1: and as long as you want those things balanced and 313 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:06,640 Speaker 1: the way they just fit together in that little circle. Man, 314 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: it's just like it's pleasing to the eye. And I 315 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 1: think that's kind of says it all. You know, it 316 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 1: just looks nice. It's not jagged. It's like it's like 317 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,200 Speaker 1: two people just cuddling up, you know, in the form 318 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:22,400 Speaker 1: of a tattoo you wish you hadn't gotten. That's right 319 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: with some maybe Chinese characters that you don't know what 320 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 1: they mean any longer. Uh there, Um, well, I guess 321 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 1: we're at the bagua, right, Yeah, so this has made 322 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: sense to me. Right. Um, Remember what we're dealing with 323 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,199 Speaker 1: here is she She flows through the five elements, and 324 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:42,399 Speaker 1: you deal with the five elements in your house to 325 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,639 Speaker 1: figure out where in your house, you need a little 326 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:50,120 Speaker 1: more of one element than another, you have to construct 327 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:52,520 Speaker 1: a bagua map. Yeah, like this is where the rubber 328 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:55,399 Speaker 1: meets the road. We've been talking in esoteric terms. But 329 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: if you're like, great, dudes, what does this mean for 330 00:20:58,080 --> 00:21:01,400 Speaker 1: my freaking living room? Right, this is what it means 331 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: for your freaking living room. Yeah. And the Bagua map 332 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,719 Speaker 1: is based on boxes squares. They're the basic units of 333 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:15,560 Speaker 1: UM of functional Yeah, nine squares three by three right, uh? 334 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:20,440 Speaker 1: And you take those squares and somehow this is really 335 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: clever too. But even though there's nine squares, you can 336 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,959 Speaker 1: take them and turn them into a hexagon. If you 337 00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 1: take the center square and convert that into well as center, 338 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: and then the eight boxes around it become eight sides 339 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,640 Speaker 1: of a hexagon if you shave off a little here there, 340 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, what you have are is 341 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:46,199 Speaker 1: a bogua. Yeah. And they can represent color as well 342 00:21:46,240 --> 00:21:51,479 Speaker 1: as UM these elements as well as for the actual 343 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,959 Speaker 1: map that you're going to use, UM for laying out 344 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:59,600 Speaker 1: your home, aspects of your life, like you know, career 345 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: and wealth and prosperity and love and marriage and things 346 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,600 Speaker 1: like that. So there's multiple meetings and it also is 347 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,760 Speaker 1: if you've seen the TV show Lost, they totally ripped 348 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,360 Speaker 1: it off with the Dharma collective symbol. It is just 349 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: that is nothing more than the Bogwa grid with the 350 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 1: yin yang in the center right, and the yin yang 351 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,200 Speaker 1: is frequently represented in the center is yellow, correct, yep. 352 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,159 Speaker 1: Yellow is the center of the Bogua map, which is 353 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,119 Speaker 1: actually the center of this nine squared box called the 354 00:22:30,119 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 1: low shoe square UM. And in each of the different 355 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 1: boxes there is a static representation. So this is this 356 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,400 Speaker 1: is what you need to know about the Bogua map. 357 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: It is hexagon that the placement is always the same. 358 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:48,040 Speaker 1: What you do is you take your Bagua map and 359 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,520 Speaker 1: you oriented a certain way over your house, over your 360 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:53,639 Speaker 1: your actual house or the room in your house or 361 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:57,960 Speaker 1: something like that, and that's what changes. So if you 362 00:22:58,080 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 1: look at the Bogua square, the yellow is always owner 363 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:04,359 Speaker 1: and then black, which represents water and career. UM is 364 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: always at the bottom. Okay, yeah, a k A supposed 365 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:14,080 Speaker 1: to be the entrance to that room or your home, Okay, exactly, yeah, 366 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,439 Speaker 1: So yeah, it's not necessarily always at the bottom. It's 367 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:20,080 Speaker 1: always at the entrance. Well, you placed the bottom at 368 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 1: the entrance. So if I were to walk into my house, 369 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 1: you can either visualize it or you can literally draw 370 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:30,199 Speaker 1: this uh square. You want the bottom which is uh. 371 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 1: The bottom, center is career or water. Bottom right is 372 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:39,159 Speaker 1: helpful people and travel, bottom left is knowledge and self cultivation. 373 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,239 Speaker 1: You just want to find out where your front door is. 374 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:44,720 Speaker 1: In my case, mine is pretty much in the center 375 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:49,360 Speaker 1: of my home, which would be career, but it could 376 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 1: fall if your door is on your left, it would 377 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,800 Speaker 1: fall under knowledge and self cultivation. So it's it's not 378 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 1: like you move the map over to to to help 379 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:00,560 Speaker 1: yourself out. Like where your door is where it is, 380 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 1: you can move it if you want. Yeah, you could 381 00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: move your door. But basically the map is just supposed 382 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: to be static. Okay. So and it's static, like you said, 383 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:14,320 Speaker 1: it's oriented um with the black on the entrance right. 384 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 1: No matter where the entrance is, the black is on 385 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 1: the the black is there. So when you orient your 386 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: your black box onto your entrance, what you're doing then 387 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: is using your Bogwa map to show you how you 388 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:33,440 Speaker 1: need to change your house in order to maximize the 389 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: flow of che through it. Yeah, it's basically and by 390 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 1: the way, you shouldn't supposedly use any additions built, you 391 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 1: should do those separately. Okay, So if you if you're 392 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,280 Speaker 1: living room has a big new addition to the lefty like, 393 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 1: you shouldn't even include that. So basically you're what you're 394 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,959 Speaker 1: doing is you're you're dividing your space up into zones 395 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,639 Speaker 1: according to this grid. And so if you were to 396 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,479 Speaker 1: look at my house according to the low shoe square, 397 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:04,720 Speaker 1: my TV would be in the wealth and Prosperity corner, 398 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 1: which is probably not good. You're gonna make money on 399 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 1: TV that didn't exactly happen. Uh. My couch is the 400 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,760 Speaker 1: knowledge and self cultivation. I'm not sure what that means. 401 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: And then my sun room would be helpful people in travel, 402 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,320 Speaker 1: that's what that means either. And in the center is 403 00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:25,920 Speaker 1: my coffee table. The if I wanted to have good 404 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: chea to have a yellow rug there, Yeah, but I don't, 405 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,159 Speaker 1: But you should. We have some nice tile squares of 406 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: varying colors. Yes, so you can do that, chuck for 407 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: every room of your house, and you're supposed to like it, 408 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,640 Speaker 1: like what you just said, Well, now I know where 409 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: I should put a yellow rug in my in my 410 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:45,919 Speaker 1: house like you would want to put that in the 411 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 1: center of where the Bogua map falls over that room. 412 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 1: That's right right. Um you might also so for example, um, 413 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: if you just kind of had a dead space where 414 00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,359 Speaker 1: the red boxes which is for fame and reputation and 415 00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 1: you want to fall auster that kind of thing, Man, 416 00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:05,400 Speaker 1: there's a dead space there. Would um you would put 417 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: something like awards there, animal related items, maybe a stuff 418 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,040 Speaker 1: jackalopet or something would be a good spot for that 419 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,320 Speaker 1: or a good thing for that spot. Yeah. Um. And 420 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,879 Speaker 1: so you basically what you're doing is using the Bogue 421 00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: map to say you're just cross referencing spots of your house. 422 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: And when you add these things and basically do interior decorating, um, 423 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:32,520 Speaker 1: you can maximize a Flowchi. Yeah, if you look at 424 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,760 Speaker 1: my master bedroom and bathroom, I have a bad functual 425 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: because right in that top left corner wealth and prosperity 426 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: is my toilet. Oh yeah, so supposedly you're flushing it 427 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: all down the toilet. They say you should not put 428 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: your bathroom or your toilet specifically in your wealth grid 429 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: right square. So what we've just described is what a 430 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:01,719 Speaker 1: Western practitioner would do, because again, Western functional has a 431 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: lot to do with interior decorating, and so too does 432 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:10,959 Speaker 1: to an extent um traditional functional, but a traditional functional 433 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: practitioner um, if they came to your house and they 434 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 1: used the Bagua map over your house, they would they 435 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,000 Speaker 1: wouldn't just align it to an entrance, they would align 436 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,200 Speaker 1: it to a magnetic direction. I'm pretty sure it's north. 437 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: I think I think you're right. But the black the 438 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 1: black um square in the Bogua map would be oriented 439 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 1: in that direction, so it wouldn't necessarily be facing your entrance. 440 00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: And so there's this kind of It reveals this really 441 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: big distinction between Western functional and traditional functional. Whereas with 442 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,479 Speaker 1: Western functional it's like, oh, we'll just line it up 443 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: to the entrance, and maybe you've got a problem with 444 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: your toilet flushing, your your fame away in your bathroom, 445 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,960 Speaker 1: or your money away in your bathroom. With traditional functional, 446 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: there's no getting around it. It's once it lays over 447 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 1: your house. According to Magnetic North, what it gives you 448 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: a really clear picture of what you're going to have 449 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 1: to do, and you may have to tear down your 450 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: house and start over and rebuild facing the right way. Um, 451 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 1: it could reveal a lot of real problems with your house. UM, 452 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 1: and you may have to fill in more areas than others. 453 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: Whereas if you're just orienting each room based on its entrance, 454 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: like in Western functual, there's UM, you're not gonna find 455 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:29,399 Speaker 1: quite as many problems in a lot more easy solutions. 456 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,680 Speaker 1: That makes sense also with a traditional functional consultant who 457 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,919 Speaker 1: um is basically telling you what you need to do 458 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,520 Speaker 1: with your house, they're going to do research on your 459 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:41,760 Speaker 1: house itself too. They're gonna find out when it was built, 460 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 1: when the roof wasn't closed. That's a big one too. 461 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,520 Speaker 1: And then they're going to also create this Baguo map 462 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: and a chart based on Chinese astrology as well, because 463 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:56,320 Speaker 1: time factors in a lot with traditional functual way more 464 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: than Western. Again, Western is very um, quick to the 465 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 1: point and just put some stuff here, like another example 466 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,239 Speaker 1: that people criticize Western functual and kind of point like 467 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 1: it's just basically UM. Interior design is plaid is considered 468 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,800 Speaker 1: a form of the wood element. So if you have 469 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: too much plaid, like a plague couch in a room, 470 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: you might need to encounter that with like a little 471 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: fountain or something like that. But where where did the 472 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: idea that plaid was would come from. It's definitely not 473 00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,600 Speaker 1: traditional Chinese. No, I don't think so. No, I don't 474 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 1: think they have plaid in China, do they? I don't 475 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,400 Speaker 1: think so. But that raises another thing to another criticism 476 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: of Western functual is that very frequently um functually consultants 477 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: in the West will be like, oh, you just need 478 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 1: to add a food dog, you know, like that kind 479 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: of lion looking dog. You need to add some you've 480 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 1: seen a million times. Was it like a little statue 481 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: or something, Or you need to add like some Chinese 482 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: pottery or dragon mural or something, And traditional function practitioners 483 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: are like, yeah, arc ounce, but um it doesn't have 484 00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: to be Chinese. Right, So if you're consultant is selling 485 00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 1: you Chinese art and this is right, this is essential. Yeah, 486 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,080 Speaker 1: that's not that's not correct with the red flag. Yeah, alright, 487 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: Well we have some more um uh tips from fung 488 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: shui experts that we'll get to right after this. All right, 489 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: so we're talking the bagua grid. Like we said, it's 490 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: all represented with the different colors. Those colors also correspond 491 00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:55,440 Speaker 1: to numbers, and they also correspond to aspects of your 492 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:59,040 Speaker 1: life or chi it sounds confusing. It kind of is. 493 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: Let's just say it. But here are some things that 494 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: functual A practitioners say will help unlock that q um. Black, 495 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 1: which is your career. Uh, they say a fountain or 496 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,240 Speaker 1: a mirror might be a good thing to have. Their blue, 497 00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:18,520 Speaker 1: which is skills and wisdom. Maybe that's where you put 498 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: your computer workstation or your library. Okay, yeah, books, yeah, books, 499 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: green your family Maybe that's where you want to put 500 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: your family photos and you want to arrange them nicely too. Yeah. 501 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:35,000 Speaker 1: Supposedly if you have your family photos out of order 502 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,880 Speaker 1: in your green section, Um, you're gonna have misbehaving kids. Yeah. 503 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,200 Speaker 1: Actually that's the white zone. That's children. Oh sorry, that's okay, 504 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:46,000 Speaker 1: but yeah, that's that's that's what they say. If you 505 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,560 Speaker 1: want good kids, keep those photos nice. Right. I'm not 506 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: sure about that one. Uh. Purple is your prosperity zone, 507 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 1: and that's where you want to have it, says healthy plants. 508 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:02,000 Speaker 1: Don't put your dying plants there, or sailing ships. I 509 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:08,160 Speaker 1: guess that's just um sailing towards prosperity. I guess maybe 510 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: don't don't put a painting of a sinking ship. No, 511 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,680 Speaker 1: that that's that is western function there. Yeah, sure that 512 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: you don't like that. That whole kind of psychology would 513 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: be detrimental to the health of the area. Yeah, why 514 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,959 Speaker 1: would you want that anyway though? Like good painted sinking 515 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 1: ship Yeah, um, a depressed sea captain probably guess would 516 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 1: be my guess. Red is famine reputation. That's where you 517 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:39,440 Speaker 1: want to put your various awards. Um so yeah, we 518 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 1: got a couple of those, and your jackalope head your 519 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,200 Speaker 1: jackalope yeah, animal animal related things. You're right, we should 520 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:49,360 Speaker 1: lay out our next studio like according to Functui dud, 521 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 1: we totally should you know? I just noticed is red 522 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,040 Speaker 1: supposedly is what you want to put on the back 523 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,360 Speaker 1: of your chair to block a badge. And we've got 524 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,080 Speaker 1: a huge red foam thing in between us and Jerry. 525 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 1: Oh so we gotta get rid of that. Oh I 526 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 1: was gonna say, that explains why I've been able to 527 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: put up with her cheeks for so long. Now, Jerry, 528 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,640 Speaker 1: she has the good flow our way, So we need 529 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:14,360 Speaker 1: to open that up in our new place. Um, pink 530 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,120 Speaker 1: love and relationships, that's where you want to put maybe 531 00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:20,320 Speaker 1: photos of your family or paired items. Again with the 532 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,680 Speaker 1: family photos Yeah, I don't have that many family photos. 533 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: Paradig items that's cute, that makes sense, like bookends, salt 534 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:36,960 Speaker 1: and pepper shakers. Uh, boxing gloves, Um, that's where you 535 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 1: hang your boxing gloves. Remember Joe Garden from The Onion 536 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,480 Speaker 1: with those giant boxing gloves he had. Yeah, those were 537 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,240 Speaker 1: so much fun. He had a thing where he just 538 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:46,840 Speaker 1: wanted to get as many people to pose with those 539 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:50,520 Speaker 1: as possible and take a swing at him. Uh. White 540 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: what we already mentioned was children or creativity. That's where 541 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: you might want to put some art or pictures of 542 00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: your little brats. Um gray travel um or helpful people. 543 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,240 Speaker 1: But you're souvenirs from Disneyland there, and not just Disneyland 544 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 1: any trip you've taken. Sure the Disney company wants you 545 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,120 Speaker 1: to just put Disney souvenirs there though. Uh and yellow finally, 546 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,040 Speaker 1: health um pottery and stone objects will help unlock your 547 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:20,400 Speaker 1: chee there. Yeah. But speaking of Disney, Hong Kong, Disneyland, 548 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:24,719 Speaker 1: they apparently had a functual expert consulted, and uh they 549 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 1: made some changes because of that consultation. Yeah, probably that 550 00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,920 Speaker 1: was probably a nice paying gig. The Yeah, you know 551 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 1: that consulting was like good che yeah, or they were 552 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: saying e jing. Anyway, the they opened on September twelve 553 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,880 Speaker 1: because they were told that was a lucky day according 554 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,279 Speaker 1: to the astrological chart. Their consultant drew up. Yep. They 555 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 1: changed the entrance by twelve degrees. Obviously it was a 556 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:59,239 Speaker 1: traditional um functual practitioner uh, and added some boulders. Apparently 557 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,760 Speaker 1: one of the restaurants has a projection of a fire, 558 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 1: which to me that wouldn't count, but maybe it does. 559 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,640 Speaker 1: That's gonna that seems pretty Western to me because one 560 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:14,359 Speaker 1: of the big bases of Western function is psychology. If 561 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:21,240 Speaker 1: traditional function is based on magnetism and astrology, Western functuali 562 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,080 Speaker 1: is based on psychology. And it is as simple as 563 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:27,319 Speaker 1: you don't put a painting of a sinking ship in 564 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,160 Speaker 1: the office of a business that's struggling to stay afloat 565 00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,920 Speaker 1: because the mind makes those kind of associations and it 566 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:37,120 Speaker 1: messes up your cheek. That's right, um, And a lot 567 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,759 Speaker 1: of this stuff as well, Like we said, um, I think, 568 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 1: like you just mentioned maybe like it just seems like 569 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:47,720 Speaker 1: common sense. Um, Like a horseshoe shaped building that opens 570 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 1: up into a courtyard, it's gonna feel good, it's pleasing. Um. 571 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 1: Functually practitioners say that's energy. Or hey, don't don't build 572 00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,800 Speaker 1: a house on a dead end street, um, because it 573 00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:02,799 Speaker 1: blocks the CHI. I had a friend who lived at 574 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,799 Speaker 1: a dead end street and it just felt like every 575 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 1: time I went over there, I felt closed in and 576 00:36:07,120 --> 00:36:09,680 Speaker 1: sort of weird. Did you end up killing his whole family? 577 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,160 Speaker 1: He did not. He did move though. Um they were saved. 578 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:20,200 Speaker 1: They were thanks to him moving. Um your office A 579 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:21,960 Speaker 1: lot of a lot of times, he stays, people will 580 00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 1: um their new offices. They will take this into account. 581 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,120 Speaker 1: Some very famous people like Richard Branson and Donald Trump 582 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,399 Speaker 1: have enlisted the help of functual experts to design their 583 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:36,239 Speaker 1: offices because they want that chi and ergo money flowing. Yeah, 584 00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,560 Speaker 1: you don't have to be a Richard Branson or Donald 585 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,480 Speaker 1: Trump to arrange your office, whether it's a cubicle or 586 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,840 Speaker 1: what have you. UM, so that you can maximize the 587 00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:46,600 Speaker 1: flow of chief if you want to do a little 588 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,600 Speaker 1: messing around. Supposedly, the one one one thing that you 589 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 1: want to ensure as much as possible is that you're 590 00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:58,799 Speaker 1: facing the entrance to your office. Yes, UM, that way 591 00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,759 Speaker 1: the chief flows correct towards you, not towards your back. Yeah, 592 00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:04,799 Speaker 1: you don't want the cheat you're back. No, remember the 593 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:12,800 Speaker 1: Southern China um, the Southern China functui placement, the form school. Yeah. Um, 594 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:17,240 Speaker 1: like you you put your the entrance of your house 595 00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,360 Speaker 1: is facing away from a hill, so the back of 596 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,520 Speaker 1: your house backs up to a hill, so the chief 597 00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 1: flows correctly. Same thing. You want the entrance to your 598 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,960 Speaker 1: office to be flowing towards you, facing it if you 599 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:30,560 Speaker 1: If you can't do that, then you just put up 600 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 1: a mirror so you can reflect the cheat towards you. Yeah, 601 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,399 Speaker 1: that makes sense. Like you said, you want to put 602 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,080 Speaker 1: something red on the back of your chair to block 603 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:40,040 Speaker 1: the chief from your back. Yeah. Actually, now that I 604 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,000 Speaker 1: think about it, this isn't so bad in here because 605 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,399 Speaker 1: the chief, the red is to our side. It's coming 606 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,200 Speaker 1: in that door and bouncing off of that right on us. 607 00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,279 Speaker 1: So Jerry is really the one is getting the short 608 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:53,160 Speaker 1: end of the cheese stick. Here, a short short into 609 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,680 Speaker 1: the cheese stick. Um, what else can you do? You 610 00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,680 Speaker 1: can put a fountain or a plant. Um, honestly, water 611 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,560 Speaker 1: and would uh And they said even the picture of 612 00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,879 Speaker 1: a waterfall in your cubicle could help your chi. Your 613 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:11,200 Speaker 1: workplace Chi. Again, there's a lot of disagreement about what 614 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:15,319 Speaker 1: works and what doesn't with traditional FUNCTIONI it's like you 615 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,759 Speaker 1: need to know where magnetic north is and you need 616 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,839 Speaker 1: to orient your building according to that, and whatever you 617 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:24,319 Speaker 1: do inside is almost irrelevant. Yeah, get rid of those 618 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,000 Speaker 1: fluorescent lights though they all agree on that. Sure, I 619 00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:30,359 Speaker 1: know anything about cheet to know that fluorescent lights are 620 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,720 Speaker 1: terrible for you? Agreed? Do you anything else? No, there's 621 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,239 Speaker 1: it's a pretty good overview, I think, right. Sure, you 622 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:41,520 Speaker 1: feel good about it. I feel better than I expected. 623 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:45,759 Speaker 1: How's your ch It's fine? Yeah, all right, it's it's 624 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,279 Speaker 1: not out of balance, it's not jumping for joy. It's 625 00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:53,200 Speaker 1: just it is today. Got you. Uh. If you want 626 00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 1: to know more about chi or fung shui or any 627 00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,320 Speaker 1: stuff like that, you can type those words in the 628 00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,200 Speaker 1: search part how stuff works. And since I said that, 629 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 1: it's time for a listener mail, I'm gonna call this 630 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,840 Speaker 1: G E D success story. 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