Hi Charles,
Here is another interest one from the Luban Jing and it is called the Flying Tiger General or Feihu Jiang 飛虎將and is use to handle the Sha from roof structures and roof beams:
In the Luban Jing 魯班經, it says if one do not want to draw a picture, then writing the characters "Shanhai Zhen" 山海鎮 will suffice although drawing a picture is better.
The original picture is very simple, it has a picture of five mountains in the ...
Hi all, this type of sensational circus rarely leaves a lasting mark on the public psyche. After the dust settles the believers will still believe and the skeptics will still be skeptical and the people with troubles will still grasp at straws and...
Hi All,
Boyler> yes the mirror existed long time ago but it was not actively used in some countries. The writings are like the well wishes writings we wrote during chinese new year and paste on the side of the wall. 春联 So the words may change acc...
Hi Vincent, I'm wondering if a person could simply add a mountain and sea drawing on a flat mirrored pre-Heaven commercially available Ba Gua mirror? Perhaps add a Taoist talisman like a tail on a kite?
In the picture from Howard the mountains ar...
Hi Danny,
Not being able to read Chinese, it will be difficult for you to understand the subtlety of the Chinese language. To ask or "wen" 問 in Chinese does not always mean to ask a question in a verbal way, it means "to feel" or "to be aware of"...
Hi Howard,
We have been discussing the same topic on Joseph Yu's blog recently, so I already made some comments on it there.
It is not so that learning always comes before asking.
Learning and asking continuously alternate.
New learning can bri...
Oh Danny, this was what you said about Confucius earlier:
"Confucius worked as a government official, a politician.
Then, is it a concidence that so many of his ideas are geared towards making the people waiting, accepting, obeying, docile and we...
Hi Darma, Sibylle,
It doesn't make any difference which Branches we use.
For people who got married in the last month of the Rabbit year, it is still only 5 years and a few days till the start of the next Rooster year.
The reason is that the last...
Hi Danny,
You know my position on the matter already, so there is no need to go on and on about how we see things differently and how people will perceive us.
Your impression about me is far from correct and do you really think I can speak about...
Hi Howard,
>Is it you or I having a hard time accepting different people will see things like "practice" and "divination" in a different light and do their practices differently?
Let me remind you that you started this thread with describing pe...
Hi,
I thought this 7. year myth with marriages is a Western thing. It seems so that it is very much a Eastern story. It makes real sense after considering what Darma said. But is it reality? Do marriages get divorced especially in the 7. year in A...
Dear Danny,
Let me change the example a bit because Dragon and Dog are Earth branches, and Earth branches do not really clash.
Married Conflict
Rabbit - Dragon - Snake - Horse - Sheep - Monkey - Rooster
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
So we see that ...
The modern equivalent of "xue-wen" 學問 is "zhi-shi" 知識 (to know by collecting what is known) and it has more to do with learning by the intellect rather than learning by the emotion through thinking and contemplation (not unlike the difference betw...