Comments on: Top 10 International Airports with Awesome Feng Shui

By: Howard Choy

Howard Choy — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 06:22:53 +0000

The Stems and Branches in a Mteal Ox are correlated to many potentials and tendencies associated with you, they only get scary when you think that they have made you who you are. 🙂 Thanks for the nice chat, we are walking the same path (Tongdaoren 同道人), more or less..

By: Kartar Diamond

Kartar Diamond — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 05:43:12 +0000

PS I am a Metal Ox. 🙂

By: Kartar Diamond

Kartar Diamond — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 05:43:01 +0000

I never lost faith in Feng Shui. I have been impressed and amazed at the influence. I’m about to write an article on an on-going 8 year case study with a family member of mine, where the feng shui influences were so right on cue that it was scary.

By: Howard Choy

Howard Choy — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 04:38:17 +0000

I can understand why people can experience their Bazi more than their Feng Shui because in Bazi the correlation is one to one (correlation to person), whereas in Feng Shui the correlation is one to three, correlation to person and to his or her environment at an appropriate time (space/time/action). The connection is not so simple and there are also more options to consider, but the advantage of Feng Shui is that there are also checks and balances we can use to make the adjustments that Bazi don’t have. But that is another topic not relating to what we are talking about in this thread.

By: Howard Choy

Howard Choy — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 03:47:36 +0000

I have also lost my faith in Feng Shui before and that is because I have not dig deep enough into the subject. IMO, Mark Johnson gave up too soon, and turning to Bazi is not the answer; he’ll do better in Xuanxue if he can get a deeper understanding of the traditional way of thinking and world-view.

By: Howard Choy

Howard Choy — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 03:35:50 +0000

Our modern scientific mind has a “cause and effect” bias, whereas in Xuanxue we are more interested in meaningful relationships to establish “ganying” 感應 or “mutual resonance” between things around us so we can be more efficacious. The traditional concept of “tian ren he yi” (天人合一) or “Heaven (Nature) and Man are One” is a good example.

By: Howard Choy

Howard Choy — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 03:21:04 +0000

Some of my Russian students felt the same way as Mark Johnson did, they felt that I don’t believe in feng shui when I tried to explain the difference between correlative thinking and analytical thinking used in Feng Shui. They don’t realize that the same way of thinking of integrating the two modes of thought in Form and Compass Feng Shui is also used in other forms of Chinese metaphysics (Xuanxue 玄學) like Bazi, and that is why I used the example of you being a pig earlier to try to get that message across.

By: Howard Choy

Howard Choy — Sun, 08 Nov 2015 03:09:38 +0000

Hi Kartar, There are definite correlations between feng shui and what has happened to us but we need to bare in mind that they are (especially in compass feng shui readings) correlations to enable us to establish a meaningful relationship between us and our environment, they are not the causation until proven otherwise. But we tend to treat correlation and causation as the same thing and that gives rise to many unrealistic expectations and irrational fears.

By: Kartar Diamond

Kartar Diamond — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 22:52:54 +0000

Hi Howard, we could talk semantics, as well as theory. We could say in one instance that feng shui does not “cause” anything to happen. The environmental influences may only bring to the surface something that is a potential. Within the realm of Feng Shui being a predictive art and a metaphysical practice, we can say that people do reflect some of the traits associated with their Year Branch and then we can go deeper into the 4 Pillars as well. One of the reasons Mark Johnson was ruminating about quitting practicing Feng Shui some 20 years ago (in an article in Qi Journal magazine), was because he felt that most people experience their Ba Zi chart more than their feng shui. I am not a Ba Zi practitioner (yet) so I do not have the vast amount of experience to say what is more influential. However, I have had over 5,000 feng shui clients and I do see a direct correlation between the person’s home and work environment and what actually transpires in their life. That is why I am still in business and still learning.

By: Victor Cheung

Victor Cheung — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 20:21:29 +0000

Great discussion Howard and Kartar. The purpose of this post is to show how airports can give us a different feel by sprucing up its interior design and environment. I apologize for using the term “feng shui” too broadly to describe the environment. Personally, I liked Singapore’s airport because it massively integrated nature into it.