WEBVTT - Selects: How Feng Shui Works 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.760 Hi, everybody. I hope your couch is in the right place, 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.080 and I hope the door is facing the right direction, 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.119 and I hope everything in your house is set up 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:15.520 exactly how it should be to bring you great peace 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:24.239 and relaxation tranquility. Because with the show from February, we 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:26.720 will tell you all about the ins and outs of 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:31.319 fung sway from our episode how feng Shui works. It 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.120 was a good one and I think we got it 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:35.680 mostly right, which is not bad for us, So please 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:42.519 enjoy it all over again. Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:51.920 a production of I Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to the podcast. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:55.120 I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles w. Chok, Bryant uh and 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.560 Jerry's over there. So this's the stuff you should know. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:03.920 URCHI is one baby cheer or key. Yeah. There's a 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.319 lot of different pronunciations that are gonna happen today. Well supposedly, Um, 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:11.920 it's just the different spellings same pronunciation. Q I and 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:16.440 h i are both cheap. Yeah, um, unless they're saying 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.520 kai for c h I, in which kids had something 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.880 totally different. Yeah, that's that would be the Greek letter 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.640 correct um that means energy. Are we going to pronounce 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:29.880 this fung shui. I usually say fung chui fungi, but 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.440 they could go either way. I mean, it depends. If 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:38.360 it's Mandarin that we're speaking, Chuck, Yeah, we should say 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.240 fong shui funui. I guess I usually say it in 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.319 Mandarin fun hui. If we're speaking in Cantonese, we would 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:51.080 say fung sui. Okay, So I guess we're gonna go 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.320 with the Mandarin. Alright, great, Is that okay with you? Yeah? 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.520 And Uh, I even looked up because I've always said 0:01:56.520 --> 0:02:00.160 Tao is um um Yeah, that's right, right. Well, a 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:03.280 lot of people say there's been some confusion, so I 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.200 actually looked it up. And this author, Derrek Lenn had 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:09.400 a nice little thing. The first the misconception, he says, 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.160 is that the first letter in t a o daw 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.000 is an approximation of a Chinese sound that does not 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.959 have an exact English equivalent, because apparently in England, I 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:24.200 think they say Taoism. But he says that's actually not true. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.200 There is an equivalent, and it is a d And 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:30.040 he said the misconception was created by an author who 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.960 had no understanding of Chinese, and that was spread around. 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.200 He did not name the author, but apparently has he 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:41.480 had high academic standing. Jathan friends in and so he said, 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:45.240 it is Taoism if you're speaking in English, and that 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.120 this author has uh spread a mistruth that there is 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:56.200 no real translation. So that was fun. Nice. There you go. 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:00.760 That was the glossary of this episode pretty much. So well, 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:05.480 let's talk about chi first man, because fungi is the 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:10.800 the practice of allowing chi to flow in the best 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:15.840 possible way. And she is the Chinese concept of the 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:21.600 energy that pervades and permeates the universe, including us, and 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.040 it is linked to Taoism and goes all the way 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:28.000 back to sixth century BC. And um, like you said, 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:31.559 it's uh, it's supposedly something that can't even be described 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:34.679 in language, so I even try. But you did a 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.360 pretty good job. I think, thanks for someone who uh 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:39.800 supposedly is not supposed to be able to do that. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:45.200 The thing is, well, I'm obviously an incredible person. The 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:49.720 thing is, um, this chi, this energy can be blocked, 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:53.720 it can fall out of balance. There's it's not self 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.640 correcting necessarily. Sometimes it needs help, that's right. And so 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:03.160 when we inhabit an area, build a home, community palace, 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.720 what have you. We need to build it in such 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.280 a way that it's not going to block this chet 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.720 or it's not going to um throw things out of balance, 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.880 because we will be impacted negatively if it If that happens, 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.280 that's right, because in the East there is a long 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:24.440 held belief that the space we inhabit is not just 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.880 a space we live in, but we are actually connected 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:31.760 to that uh spiritually and with our energy and UM 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:36.039 that the way you lay out your home and the 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.920 way you build like even where you place your home 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.080 on your property, and the way you align it with 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:48.039 the surrounding nature. That's actually very important part of it. UM. 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:53.599 That is functual, which is translated literally as wind and water, right, 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.039 pretty neat UM. A lot of people in the West 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.440 have jumped on this train since the nineteen eighties. It's 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:05.200 very a popular thing to do. UM. Often misguided attempts. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.719 UM as far as traditional functuation, Well, it's like a 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:12.240 completely different school. Yeah, basically, um, not basically entirely, yeah, 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.919 but UM. A lot of people in the West also 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.480 will poopoo this, and a lot of people in the 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.760 East poopoo it. Now apparently only about a third of 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.440 people in modern China even believe it is a thing. Um, well, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.279 Chairman Mao rooted it out during the Cultural Revolution. Yeah, 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.640 I mean it is. It is. It's not illegal to 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:33.040 practice it. It is illegal though, to start a business 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:39.640 in China, modern China, where you say that you're doing functuation. Um, 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.480 but they can't really like, well, I guess it could 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.479 allow the practice. They outlaw lots of stuff from what 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.440 I've been told. But um, apparently the younger generation it's 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.599 even less than a third. It's just kind of going 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:51.960 the way of the Dodo. But hey, we picked up 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:55.440 on it in California and ran with it, you know, 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.719 especially in the eighties. Yeah, sure, man, that was a 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.159 super eighties thing. But lot of people poopoo it though, 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:02.560 as they do a lot of things in the East 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.360 and saying this is just a bunch of superstitious gobbitygook. 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:07.960 There is no such thing as an energy flowing through 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.640 your house or your body that needs to be aligned. 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:14.440 So we're not here to uh, We're just gonna explain 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:20.400 it to you exactly. So just save your emails people. So, um, 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.719 what's interesting about fung hui initially is that not not 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.160 just China, but also India lay claim to its origins. 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.720 Actually that's um. And remember I think you you did 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.320 a pretty good job defining it, but we should it's 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:39.799 bear saying again. Funcui is this practice of arranging your inhabit, 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:46.320 your your abode, your life, your workspace, UM in a 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.400 way that allows che to flow freely. That's right, okay, Um, 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:56.320 And there was there's evidence I think back three thousand 0:06:56.360 --> 0:07:02.520 years ago, no, sorry years ago, so about BC. Yeah, 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:07.039 there is evidence of what the Indians call Vastu shastra, 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.880 which is basically a translation of building science, which is 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.880 that you should follow certain practices, use certain geometries to 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.160 allow energy to flow so that you can prosper and 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:23.280 not be harmed negatively. Yeah, and uh, this is um 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:27.080 been seeing many times. I've read a great article in uh, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.640 I think it was history today by guy named Anthony 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:34.320 Evini called bringing the Sky down to Earth, with basically 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.480 the idea that many many cities through history have been 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:42.120 built with this concept in mind, that the gods bringing 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.960 the gods down to your city, like you know, he's 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:51.440 a Stonehenge, Beijing, Washington, d c uh and m hmm. 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.800 This place of Mexico that I will pronounce as d 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.080 O t hua Kan. I don't know if that's right. 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:03.040 It's like in myan ancient Mian city, and they all 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:08.120 have the same um philosophy and mine, which is apparently 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.400 if you go to Beijing, it's very famous for its layout, 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.080 as is d C. You can stand in Tienamen Square 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.720 and you can draw a straight line up the bell 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.840 and drum towers straight through to the Monument to the 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:23.360 People's Heroes, to the Masoli liam of Mao z Dong 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.440 on a perfect north south axis, like everything is planned out. 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.360 And this is I'm not saying Washington d C was 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.880 necessarily fun suid functuad, and I know that you shouldn't 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.880 use that as a verb, but I'm going to. But 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.880 it's it's the idea like Stonehenge, that the it's the 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:47.439 cities are aligned cosmically somehow with the stars in mind. 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:51.400 And it can be as simple as um, the entrance 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:56.000 to the dwelling or the city, or the burial mound 0:08:56.080 --> 0:09:00.280 or temple or Stonehenge, whatever is aligned so that the 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.600 sun comes right up through it on the winter solstice, 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.720 or sure that that is the basis of fung hui, 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.560 and it does show up in other cultures across time. Yeah. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.559 One of the one of the famous cities that was 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:18.679 laid out according to UM, this Indian version of it, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:25.640 Vastu Shastra as um ankor Watt in Cambodia, very famous temple. 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.760 Those were built and I think the thirteenth century CE. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.800 So it's not evidence that the Indians were first, but 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.640 there is evidence elsewhere that that there were Indian cities 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:39.320 and buildings planned out according to these and the idea 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:44.480 was that a couple of thousand years later, some Indian monks, 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.800 Hindu monks, made their way into maybe too bed or 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:53.480 Mongolia or China and started spreading the vast Shastra And 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.959 that's when China got their hands on it and turned 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.480 it into what we now recognize as Functui. That's one 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.360 interpretation of the origin of the whole thing. Yeah, And 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:06.200 and either way, what both of them are doing is 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:11.120 looking and taking two accounts uh the five elements earth, water, fire, 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.880 air and space and how they affect uh, your your 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.280 pad and um or your city, like you said, our 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:23.000 community or temple UM. And some people might say, well 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.080 this is you know, you might want to call it 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:28.240 functual but I'm just building a house, and I think 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:31.280 we've got this lovely mountain view, and I like the 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.360 sunrise to come up through my kitchen because I like 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.400 a bright kitchen. So that's how I'm going to build 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:40.000 my house. People that practice functional, I would say, brother, 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:43.880 that's functuate A T S. You know, it's just how 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.480 I like to build my house. And they, you know, 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.719 that's functual. And then they fight, that's right, they lay 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:54.520 wrestle or domination. So that, though, would be more Western functuation. 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.520 We'll get into it. But basically, the distinction between Western 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:03.920 functual eighties function way and classic functui um is the 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:09.959 amount of scientific formulae put into it, the amount of 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.839 calculations at least that are put into it, the amount 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:17.160 of thought. It's like, Western functual is functual light and 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.240 not even l I G H T like L I 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:23.880 T E like that kind of eighties light. Yeah, well 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.120 we might as well talk about the schools. Then it's 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.600 a great seg before we do. Though, sorry to interrupt 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:31.920 the segua because it was pretty good. We should say that. Um. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.600 Most historians now believe that it was actually China that 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:40.280 came up with. Yeah, just the evidence is is just 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:45.440 earlier for the idea that it originated with burials in China, 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.640 Like you bury people a certain way, and you built 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:52.360 the burial grounds in a certain way according to functui. 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:55.040 So what you're saying is they leg wrestled. They won 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:59.000 the leg wrestle very good. So the different schools, um, 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.320 There are a lot of variations, but the three main 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:07.120 categories are the form school, which was from southern China, 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.760 and that is heavily based on the environment. Like we 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:14.080 were talking about classic functional, it's the oldest form and 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.200 that's when you're talking about and back then it was 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.959 practical because what they were trying to do is build 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:23.000 a safe place for your house to be. UM. So 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.280 maybe you uh set your house up with a wind 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:30.760 block at the mountains with that landscape that slopes or 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:33.920 you know, the water flowing down to you is super important, 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.440 so you may want to open your house up to that. Yeah, 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.760 but it was. It was practical though, right exactly. UM. 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.880 And another practical way of um figuring out where to 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.240 put your house is found in the compass school. That 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.120 one just forget about it. That's that's the one I 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.760 understand the most. Really, this one makes the most sense 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.240 to me. Yeah, because it's math and you're like weird 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.640 like that, well a little maybe a little bit. But 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.679 basically what this says is it it's kind of like 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:05.000 the form school where you're looking for different features of 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:09.120 the landscape to to most benefit where to build your house. Sure, 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:11.680 but this is this is using that same kind of 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:17.160 thought process but aligning it with magnetism and the stars. 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.959 To write, right, well, you're using the stars to determine magnetism, 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:22.960 like which way is north and south and that kind 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:27.360 of thing. But it does combine some math, Chinese astrology, 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:31.600 and then fung shui together and you get that what's 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.600 called the compass school, which is also very frequently known 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:39.840 as traditional funcui, and it includes a lot of detailed 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:44.240 research to figure out exactly what you're supposed to do 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.480 where your house is supposed to be facing, if it 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.240 is facing a certain way, what you can do to 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.960 kind of correct it. There's just a ton of thought 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.079 and calculation put into what we'll learn later is called 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:58.679 the Bogue map. So that's that's mostly the traditional school 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:01.200 is the compass school, and it's based on the idea 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:06.160 that magnetism dictates which way your whole jam should be 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.840 facing and oriented. Okay, and I think to the north 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.400 is the right way. That's the right way. Where as 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.439 far as your entry way, yes, okay uh. And then 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:20.800 we have, um what the Westerners have latched onto, um 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:26.000 the black Hat sect or that'shenmos it does or the 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:32.000 black sect esoteric Buddhism Functui, which was founded by Professor 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:36.240 Thomas Lynn Jun who was known UM and believed to 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:40.960 be an enlightened man. And um he basically came to 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:44.400 the West and founded this sect of Functual and it 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:49.000 blew up and um. Westerners love this one because it's 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.600 the one that most easily translates to an h G 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.880 TV show, right, you know, like put this plant there, 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.480 put a fountain there, put your door here and painted 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.680 this color, and and you're going to be wealth unsuccessful. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.400 Don't put this there, don't put that there. It's it's 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.840 a lot of object placement. So it's easy for us 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:12.400 dummies over here to understand. It's basically interior design pretty much. 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.640 So we'll talk a little more about the distinction and 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:18.600 then what some of the commonalities they have are right 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:44.800 after this. So Chuck the black hat school. That's hilarious 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.760 to me, Like, why would you call it that? I 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.040 don't know. I'm sure there was a great reason I 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.400 couldn't find it anywhere. What I found instead is that 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:57.240 most people call it Western functure, and a lot of 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:03.840 functual practitioners pooh pooh Western there like this this is 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:10.000 some like perversion of an interpretation of functui. Yeah, it's 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.400 it's americanized um, and it's taught by people who don't 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:17.200 even necessarily aren't functual masters. Even they'll just if they 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.920 can set up a website and say pay me a 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.840 thousand dollars, I'll come and tell you where to put 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:27.720 your plants exactly. But Thomas lynn Un and his followers say, no, 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:31.040 we had we hit the basics, Like yeah, definitely, traditional 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:38.000 functuation is very detailed, very um mathematically oriented, but we're 0:16:38.000 --> 0:16:40.520 still getting the same point across and coming to the 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:45.400 same conclusions and just an easier corner cutting way. That's right. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.200 Why go to all the trouble if you can get 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:52.040 the same results. What's more Western than that? Good point? Uh? 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.800 So should we talk about um the five elements a 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.400 little bit? I guess yes, um. Like I said, there 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.480 is earth, fire, metal, water, and would. And these are 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:04.560 the phases through which the energy or the chi or 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:08.400 the key moves and um, I think this article said 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.000 it very well. It's like a sort of a game 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.879 of rock paper scissors. If you look at a creative 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:18.240 or productive um way in which these elements can interact. Uh, 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:24.240 you have would producing fire. Uh. Fire produces earth av 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:30.240 as an ash. Earth produces metal, um metal produces water, 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.920 water produces wood, metal producing water. Don't get that one, 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:39.359 mm hmm, all the rest of them, like, yeah, made sense. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.240 My refrigerators metal and it has a water dispenser. In 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.440 the day you have it, is it? Uh? And then 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.800 you have the destructive. This is when the it's bad. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.840 Che And if you look at the little illustration on 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.399 how stuff works on the on the first one, you 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.480 have this great circle of arrows and it's just lovely, 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.439 and this other one has a a nasty bunch of 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.320 arrows just laying all over one another, and it's just 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:06.000 a big mess. Yeah, like um would burdens earth. Yeah, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:09.320 nobody wants that. Water douses fire. That's a clear one. Sure, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:15.280 um metal chops would, Yes, it does. There's there's Uh. So, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.919 the the interaction between these elements in your house, or 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:23.600 the way you arrange your house will determine whether these 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:29.240 phases of chi are destructive or productive in their interactions together. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:31.560 And if you have too much of one thing, you 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.280 need to balance it out with something else productively exactly 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.720 the other two for destructive. Our fire melts metal and 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.640 earth blocks water like a damn. You don't want a damn. 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.399 You want that water flowing, baby, You know you forgot 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.160 hulk smash? Was that the other one? The final one? 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.800 And then uh, the yin yang? We can't go any 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:57.800 further without mentioning that. No, it's basically a really clever 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:02.880 conception of chi. Yeah, the opposite states of cheek, light 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:08.040 and dark, night and day, young and old man woman. Sure, 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.280 And there there's actually a way that it's supposed to 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:13.960 be properly represented. The white is supposed to be on 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.600 top because the white represents in part heat, and the 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:21.240 idea is that heat rises, but they're they're both constantly 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.560 in motion. But if you ever see a yin and 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:28.200 yang symbol displayed, though, the lighter one should be on top, 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:30.840 that's right, And not only heat for the white, but 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:36.359 masculinity and spirit and hardness and activity when it's yang 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.439 by the way. Yeah, oh yeah, we didn't point that out, 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.840 and it's not yang yang by the way. We I 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:43.960 used to say it that way. I think everybody did it, 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:47.520 sure at some point. And yeah, I equipped in my 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:52.399 early forties. Um, it's it's yin and yang. Yes. Uh. 0:19:52.480 --> 0:20:01.359 The yen uh is femininity, femininity, matter, nighttime, coldness, softness, passivity, 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.320 and as long as you want those things balanced and 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.640 the way they just fit together in that little circle. Man, 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:08.600 it's just like it's pleasing to the eye. And I 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.359 think that's kind of says it all. You know, it 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:15.040 just looks nice. It's not jagged. It's like it's like 0:20:15.520 --> 0:20:19.200 two people just cuddling up, you know, in the form 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.400 of a tattoo you wish you hadn't gotten. That's right 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.480 with some maybe Chinese characters that you don't know what 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:30.440 they mean any longer. Uh there, Um, well, I guess 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.400 we're at the bagua, right, Yeah, so this has made 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:37.080 sense to me. Right. Um, Remember what we're dealing with 0:20:37.119 --> 0:20:40.199 here is she She flows through the five elements, and 0:20:40.280 --> 0:20:42.399 you deal with the five elements in your house to 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:45.639 figure out where in your house, you need a little 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:50.120 more of one element than another, you have to construct 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:52.520 a bagua map. Yeah, like this is where the rubber 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.399 meets the road. We've been talking in esoteric terms. But 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.000 if you're like, great, dudes, what does this mean for 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:01.400 my freaking living room? Right, this is what it means 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:03.840 for your freaking living room. Yeah. And the Bagua map 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:08.719 is based on boxes squares. They're the basic units of 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:15.560 UM of functional Yeah, nine squares three by three right, uh? 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:20.440 And you take those squares and somehow this is really 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:24.040 clever too. But even though there's nine squares, you can 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.959 take them and turn them into a hexagon. If you 0:21:26.960 --> 0:21:31.119 take the center square and convert that into well as center, 0:21:31.720 --> 0:21:35.359 and then the eight boxes around it become eight sides 0:21:35.359 --> 0:21:37.640 of a hexagon if you shave off a little here there, 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:41.800 and all of a sudden, what you have are is 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:46.199 a bogua. Yeah. And they can represent color as well 0:21:46.240 --> 0:21:51.479 as UM these elements as well as for the actual 0:21:51.520 --> 0:21:53.959 map that you're going to use, UM for laying out 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:59.600 your home, aspects of your life, like you know, career 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:03.320 and wealth and prosperity and love and marriage and things 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:06.600 like that. So there's multiple meetings and it also is 0:22:06.800 --> 0:22:09.760 if you've seen the TV show Lost, they totally ripped 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:13.360 it off with the Dharma collective symbol. It is just 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:16.560 that is nothing more than the Bogwa grid with the 0:22:16.640 --> 0:22:20.080 yin yang in the center right, and the yin yang 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:24.200 is frequently represented in the center is yellow, correct, yep. 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:27.159 Yellow is the center of the Bogua map, which is 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:30.119 actually the center of this nine squared box called the 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:33.639 low shoe square UM. And in each of the different 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:37.600 boxes there is a static representation. So this is this 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:39.400 is what you need to know about the Bogua map. 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:45.000 It is hexagon that the placement is always the same. 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:48.040 What you do is you take your Bagua map and 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:51.520 you oriented a certain way over your house, over your 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:53.639 your actual house or the room in your house or 0:22:53.680 --> 0:22:57.960 something like that, and that's what changes. So if you 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:00.240 look at the Bogua square, the yellow is always owner 0:23:00.320 --> 0:23:04.359 and then black, which represents water and career. UM is 0:23:04.400 --> 0:23:09.800 always at the bottom. Okay, yeah, a k A supposed 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:14.080 to be the entrance to that room or your home, Okay, exactly, yeah, 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:16.439 So yeah, it's not necessarily always at the bottom. It's 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:20.080 always at the entrance. Well, you placed the bottom at 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:22.800 the entrance. So if I were to walk into my house, 0:23:23.520 --> 0:23:25.680 you can either visualize it or you can literally draw 0:23:25.840 --> 0:23:30.199 this uh square. You want the bottom which is uh. 0:23:31.320 --> 0:23:35.119 The bottom, center is career or water. Bottom right is 0:23:35.640 --> 0:23:39.159 helpful people and travel, bottom left is knowledge and self cultivation. 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:42.239 You just want to find out where your front door is. 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:44.720 In my case, mine is pretty much in the center 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:49.360 of my home, which would be career, but it could 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:51.200 fall if your door is on your left, it would 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:54.800 fall under knowledge and self cultivation. So it's it's not 0:23:54.880 --> 0:23:57.560 like you move the map over to to to help 0:23:57.600 --> 0:24:00.560 yourself out. Like where your door is where it is, 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:03.120 you can move it if you want. Yeah, you could 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:06.600 move your door. But basically the map is just supposed 0:24:06.640 --> 0:24:10.720 to be static. Okay. So and it's static, like you said, 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:14.320 it's oriented um with the black on the entrance right. 0:24:14.600 --> 0:24:16.760 No matter where the entrance is, the black is on 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:21.520 the the black is there. So when you orient your 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:25.320 your black box onto your entrance, what you're doing then 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:28.560 is using your Bogwa map to show you how you 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:33.440 need to change your house in order to maximize the 0:24:33.480 --> 0:24:36.320 flow of che through it. Yeah, it's basically and by 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:40.280 the way, you shouldn't supposedly use any additions built, you 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:43.600 should do those separately. Okay, So if you if you're 0:24:43.840 --> 0:24:46.280 living room has a big new addition to the lefty like, 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:48.880 you shouldn't even include that. So basically you're what you're 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:51.959 doing is you're you're dividing your space up into zones 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:55.639 according to this grid. And so if you were to 0:24:55.680 --> 0:24:59.479 look at my house according to the low shoe square, 0:25:00.520 --> 0:25:04.720 my TV would be in the wealth and Prosperity corner, 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:08.359 which is probably not good. You're gonna make money on 0:25:08.440 --> 0:25:14.399 TV that didn't exactly happen. Uh. My couch is the 0:25:14.440 --> 0:25:16.760 knowledge and self cultivation. I'm not sure what that means. 0:25:17.560 --> 0:25:20.080