XUAN TIAN MEN FENGSHUI

CHINESE METAPHYSICS: ESSENTIAL FENGSHUI BASICS

CONTENTS:

Lesson 1: What is FengShui ?

 The meaning of the word fengshui
 Kanyu
 Concept of the word fengshui based on the HeTu
 Concept of the word fengshui based on the ZangShu
 Practical aspects of fengshui
 Is fengshui superstition or not?
 What is real and what is not real
 Authentic traditional fengshui solutions

Lesson 2: The History of FengShui

 Early development of fengshui
 Intermediate and later development of fengshui
 Famous ancient fengshui sages
 Ceng Wen Can
 Lai Bu Yi
 Jiang Da Hong
 Zhang Zhong San
 Shen Ju Jen
 Tan Yang Wu
 Fengshui classics
 China’s historical timeline (chart)

Lesson 3: The Chinese Calendar System

 The Gregorian calendar
 The Chinese calendar
 History
 Time measurement
 Months
 Days
 24 seasons or 24 Jie Qi
 The general characteristics and meaning of each Jie Qi
 24 seasons chart
 Leap months
 Earth’s orbit round the sun

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Lesson 4: Stems and Branches
 History and development
 Characteristics of stems and branches
 The 10 heavenly stems
 Characteristics of heavenly stems
 Heavenly stems chart
 Combination of heavenly stems
 Heavenly stems clashes
 Heavenly stems control
 12 earthly branches
 Characteristics of earthly branches
 Earthly branches chart
 Earthly branches six combinations
 Earthly branches six clashes
 Earthly branches three harmony
 Earthly branches three seasonal combinations
 GanZhi sysetn/ 60 JiaZi sexagenary cycle.
 60 JiaZi chart
 60 Jiazi Nayin chart

Lesson 5: Five Elements

 Historical and philosophical views
 The two basic cycle
 The meaning of Wuxing
 The meaning of Xiang Sheng (production) and Xiang Ke (control)
 The interacting cycles of the five elements
 Production and control cycles
 5 elements Qi phase chart
 Balance and imbalance of elements
 Sub cycles of interaction
 (5 elements) Mother and child mutually reaching out for and implicating
each other
 (5 elements) Mutually riding on and taking advantage of and mutually
abusing bullying and insulting each other
 Five elements controlled transformation dominating and resisting each
other
 The relationship of 5 elements with other phenomena
 Relationship chart of 5 elements
 Characteristics of 5 elements
 Elemental qualities
 Application of 5 elements in Chinese Metaphysics
 The different types of 5 elements relationships
 Straightforward 5 elements
 Transformation of Heavenly stems 5 combinations
 Transformation of Earthly branches 6 combinations
 HongFan 5 elements
 BaGua 5 elements

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  NaJia 5 elements
 NaYin 5 elements
 SanHe
 LuoShu color 5 elements
 HeTu 5 elements
 LuoShu 5 elements
 Strata levels 5 elements
 Shape form 5 elements
 Concluding lesson 5

Lesson 6: Yin and Yang

 Concept and theory of YinYang
 YinYang as the philosophy of materialism
 History and development of YinYang philosophy
 YinYang and the 5 elements
 YinYang and time
 Explanation of the meaning of the TaiJi diagram
 YinYang and Qi
 The intrinsic qualities of Yin and Yang

Lesson 7: The Concept and Theory of Qi

 Etymology
 Different definitions of qi
 Categorization of qi
 The origin of qi
 Primordial qi
 Qi as in Fengshui
 Yin qi and Yang qi
 Tian Di Ren (heaven earth and man) trinity
 Sheng wang shuai si
 Elemental qi
 Directional qi
 Time qi
 Hours days months and years
 Seasonal qi
 Qi and its relationship with earth and water

Lesson 8: The HeTu

 TuShu Pai
 YiGu pai
 Which one to follow
 Legend of HeTu and LuoShu
 Theory of the HeTu
 Theory of the LuoShu
 Image

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  YinYang image
 Four Images and Early Heaven Bagua
 Numerals
 Birth and Formation numbers
 Application of HeTu
 Right turning and Left Turning
 Relationship between HeTu heavenly Stems and Warly heaven Bagua

Lesson 9: The LuoShu

 Legend of XiangYu taming the river
 Theoretical aspect oof PuoShu
 Different concepts of LuoShu
 Concept #1: LuoShu as the TaYi 9 Palace Divinational tool
 Concept #2: LuoShu was developed from the HeTu
 LuoShu image
 Right Turning depletion sequence
 Left turning controlling sequence
 Opposite palace as clashing sequence
 Eight Yin Yang directions
 Purple white stars
 LuoShu numerology
 LuoShu numbers and elements
 LuoShu numbers and color chart
 The Yin and Yang of LuoShu dots
 The LuoShu and Later Heaven BaGua

Lesson 10: YiJing, TaiJi and BaGua

 YiJing etymology
 YiJing development
 The TaiJi
 The progressive division of TaiJi
 The TaiJi formation
 The BaGua
 Relationship between the TaiJi and Early heaven BaGua
 The Early heaven BaGua
 Relationship between the TaiJi BaGua Time and seasons
 YiJing image and numerology
 Eight winds and GuaQi
 Eight Gua images and numerology
 Yi-Gua attraction of opposites
 The Later Heaven BaGua
 CaiYuan Ding and ZhuXi’s postulations
 Jiang ShenXiu’s postulation based on numerals
 Later Heaven BaGua transformation based on the 5 elements

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Lesson 11: The LuoPan
 The early development of instrumentation
 The gnomon stick
 The magnetic compass
 The ShiPan
 The LuoPan
 SanHe LuoPan
 SanYuan LuoPan
 ZhongHe LuoPan
 LuoPan sizes
 Number of rings
 Construction of LuoPan
 The wooden base or outer p an
 The LuoPan plate or Inner pan
 The compass or the heavenly pool
 The cross strings
 The spirit level
 LuoPan rings: the different rings
 The Earth Plate Correct Needle
 YinYang dragons
 Tang dynasty development of 24 mountains
 72 mountain piercing dragons
 The Human Plate Center Needle
 The Heaven Plate Seam Needle
 LuoPan rules and taboos

Lesson 12: Different Schools of FengShui

 Major fengshui schools
 Sub—categorisation
 XingShi Pai
 Luantou pai
 XingXiang Pai
 XingFa Pai
 LiQiPai
 SanHe Pai
 SanYuan Pai
 SanHe Pai sub categories
 BaZhai Pai
 MingLi Pai
 FanGua Pai
 LiQiPai – SanYuan sub categories
 XuanKong DaGua
 XuanKong feiXing
 QianKunGuoBao
 XuanKong Liu Fa
 Concluding comments