Feng Shui Made Really Easy II
The Nature of Qi
Master Joseph Yu
June 1999
This is of vital importance when we study Feng Shui. If we do not know the nature of what we are studying, it will be impossible to handle various situations.
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Hypothesis: There are two types of Qi. One is tangible qi, the other is intangible qi.
This is necessary as our experience shows us that even if a house appears to have good feng shui, the people living in the house can still be having bad luck in health, wealth and relationship. By saying that a house appears to have good feng shui I mean that the environment is beautiful, the design of the house is beautiful, the house is filled with light and fresh air and the furniture is well arranged to allow a smooth flow of energy. In short, you simply feel comfortable to be living in such a house. In this case, there must be something intangible that accounts for the misfortune.
Tangible qi comes from the local environment. Such qi is carried by the flow of air. Such qi can also be dispersed by the strong flow of air. Water can retain such qi. Barriers can block the movement of such qi. Our question is then, "What are the things that satisfy the properties that describe qi?"
If we stick too rigidly with the description, then qi will exclude:
[1] light, as it does not depend on a medium to travel and is not dispersed by wind, and
[2] magnetism, as it does not travel with wind and is not dispersed by wind.
These requirements need be relaxed a bit as it does not make sense to say that light and magnetism have no part in Feng Shui. We will then include all kinds of energy as important ingredients of tangible qi. In fact, tangible qi is everything that our five senses can acknowledge its existence.
Intangible qi is then something that our five senses cannot perceive but the existence is the only explanation to a lot of phenomena contrary to our five senses.
Feng Shui is the study of qi - how qi flows, how qi is located, how different qi react, and how different qi affect human lives. Obviously, Feng Shui is also the study of creating technique to change the qi in a site so that people there live in harmony and prosperity.
The study of tangible qi is the study of the environment. In the old days, it was called "Xing Fa", meaning the Forms Method. Later, people also called this the Landscape Method.
The study of intangible qi is the study of the qi map in a house, a village, a city or a country without reference to landscape. This was called the "Li Fa", meaning the Mathematical Method. It can be described as the Qi Distribution Method.
Since tangible and intangible qi exist at the same time, they react with each other. It will be incomplete to study one of them ignoring the other. It is sad that some Feng Shui Schools only believe in the existence of one but not the other. Some masters tend to pay too much attention only to the intangible qi maps and consider the Forms Method as superstition. On the other hand, some Form School Masters do not recognize the existence of intangible qi at all.
There are different levels of Feng Shui. I will be talking about the most basic level in this series.
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