Navigating The Winds and Waters of Teaching

Not for Mere Mortals
Comments by Professor

Professor took a few minutes to review the story and floor plan of the house built byArakawa called Bioscleave House (Lifespan Extending Villa). Here are his comments:

• Notice that the bathroom is as big or bigger than the bedroom. This is not good,and over time the occupants of the bedroom will experience stomach problems.
• The study could be bigger, even bigger than the bedroom. This would be good.
• The proportions, room to room, are off.
• The kitchen is in the center, so beware of fire, accidents and other unexpected mishaps. Avoid this design detail, and also avoid a stairway in the center. You will avoid heart problems.
• I asked Professor about the architect’s intention – to make people use their bodies in unexpected ways to maintain equilibrium. What are the consequences of this intention? How long before consequences may arise, and will the effects be as expected?
• Professor answered:
  • For those with weak ch’i, the negative consequences will appear within two to three months.
  • Even for those with strong ch’i, it will only be nine months before the negative consequences take hold.
• I asked Professor about how to proceed as a practitioner, with or without seeing this house in person.
• Professor made these comments:
  • Tell the owners that there is a mundane and a transcendental side to this Feng Shui reading. On the mundane side, the design deserves praise. It is a good design.
  • On the transcendental side, there is a different interpretation (as described above).
  • Deep inside our hearts, we know why the home won awards. The judges did not know much about Feng Shui.
  • Katherine, write an article for the newspaper and let everyone know that we should all know more about Feng Shui.

Note from Katherine:

I extend this invitation (and admonition) to all of you.

Step Back

An Experiment

Dr. Lien Nguyen had the following discussion with Professor during a New York workshop. She was relaying questions from a woman who was designing an Attention Deficit Disorder study to be undertaken and supervised by the Children’s Hospital in Cleveland. The plans for the study were to be presented for funding to the National Institute of Health at a conference for alternative medicine at Harvard the following month.

It seems that children struggling with ADD often have trouble sleeping, and, thus, their daytime behavior is affected. This study was meant to measure the brain waves of these children during sleep while sleeping in their own bed with an “appropriate” Feng Shui adjustment. The children would be monitored for a period of two weeks.

I am asking you to step back and ask yourself what you might say to the woman who is designing the study. Review your previous modules. What will you choose to offer that will give an answer that is “complete?” We have many categories and tools from which to choose. Give this a good old-fashioned college try. Make your list. On the 28th day of this module, I will post Professor’s full answer in Clue Review. Here is what I wrote to end that conversation, and you will see this again on the 28th day at the end of the full conversation. I hope it will help you to move beyond what you are thinking at this moment.

Professor emphasized that we must look at chi from many different perspectives to offer the most effective assistance. Our job is more than moving the furniture, and requires of us a degree of cultivation that allows us to answer a simple question with a level of mastery that understands that life is complex. We must see the yin of the yang, and know that there are reasons and solutions beyond our rational understanding.

Answering one question, he guided us to review and understand clearly his Theory of Multiple Causes. He, once again, taught us concepts that stretch our thinking and our beliefs. He gave us an answer to the exact question, but did not get caught in limited thinking. He deepened our wisdom, and gave us the gift of moving beyond our thoughts and ourselves.

It is time to stand in Professor’s shoes and come forth with your most complete answer. However, don’t be surprised. Professor offered something new to add to our lists. It is a great reminder that there is always more to learn.

The question was, “How do we best adjust the Feng Shui for this experiment, and what can we do with our knowledge to receive funding?”

Professor asked the following question:

Are you asking for a method to get the funds for the study?

The answer was:

We need to obtain the funding, but we also want to help the children.

Professor continued:

From the perspective of Black Sect Buddhism, we want to use alternative medicine to help the children. We do not want to simply use our knowledge to obtain the funding.

We must first establish an important concept. If they adjust the Feng Shui alone, they can help. However, that is not enough. They must look at chi!

There are many levels here:

• We associate children’s chi with action and activity, and we consider that good. If their chi is stagnant, we consider it abnormal, weak, and an indication that the child may not be healthy and may not live long.
• From an adult point of view, a child can be too active. Some adults believe that children should always listen carefully, obey all rules, and behave as prescribed by the parent.
• From a child’s perspective, it is perfectly normal and ordinary to “jump around in front of visitors.”
• It is important for an adult to offer guidance, but, it is also important for an adult to understand normal chi. This may be a problem for some parents, and must be considered as an issue for parents, not necessarily the children.
• However, if a child is so active that he or she cannot sleep, or is placing life at risk by jumping up and down from high places1, two things must be considered.
  • On a mundane level, there may be a physical illness.
  • On a transcendental level, there may be a previous life consideration. For instance:
    • Mundanely, Autism may be classified as an illness. The same might be true of Down’s Syndrome.
  • From a transcendental point of view, one may consider that the symptoms result from a previous existence in another of the Six Realms. In this case, it may be the Animal realm. For instance:
    • In the case of Down’s Syndrome, the life may have been that of a timid animal. The chi of the child may still carry the frequency of that animal.

Here, Professor gave other examples of behavioral clues to previous lifetimes in the Six Realms. For instance:

• Someone from the realm of Heaven may look like Buddha or Quan Yin—looking like a god or goddess. He or she may be compassionate, sympathetic, and offer help to others in need even if there are no resources. Those from Heaven may “light themselves to offer heat.”
• A person from the realm of Jealous Gods may be passionate about helping, but be very jealous at the same time.
• From the Human Realm, a girl may carry the frequency of a man; or, a man may carry the frequency of a woman—acting in a feminine fashion. A woman may act like a General, in the male warrior sense of the word. Homosexuals may carry the frequency of the opposite sex from a previous human lifetime.
  • A person may walk a crooked line, and this may be a clue that the previous life was lived as a snake in the Animal Realm. Some people may walk like a duck. Hence, the term “duck walk.”
  • Someone from the realm of Hungary Ghosts may always want more.
  • Those from the Hell Realm may love to go around and against normal moral and legal standards. This may happen again and again, even if one is punished.

It is, therefore, important to analyze the chi of a child at risk. The child may need something other than a Feng Shui adjustment. Under some circumstances the child may require:

• A chi transfusion
  • And/or
• 9 pots of plants in the bedroom
  • And/or
• The Flower Cure
  • And/or
• An understanding of the karmic relationship with the parents. For instance:
  • The child may have come to collect a debt, and may behave in difficult ways that create a lot of trouble.
  • The child may need to repay a debt, so the child is a joy, easy to care for and healthy, living a good and successful life.
• There is a poem that describes this karma. The English translation leaves something to be desired, but here it is.

Husband and wife relationships are fate pre-destined,
Some mutually beneficial,
Others jointly destructive,
Reciprocity of karma, good and bad.

Sons and daughters are previous obligations manifested,
Either debtors paying back,
Or creditors laying claim,
Settling old debts, that’s why they came.

So, it is important to recognize what category best describes a child. Does an active child belong to the category of:

• strong chi in this lifetime?
• previous lifetime chi that represents the chi of another realm?
• relationship chi, or karma with the parent?

Or

• flaws in the Feng Shui in this lifetime?

There are many ways to cultivate chi, and the appropriate method must be chosen to help a child based upon the reasons for a child’s behavior. For instance:

• Self force, such as meditation
• Spiritual force, such as using the natural force of the sun and the moon in the Sunshine Buddha Exercise; or praying in church.
• A chi transfusion from a qualified guru
• Adjusting one’s Feng Shui
• Others

Professor commented that Lien’s question was, in essence, about Feng Shui, and he responded with some Feng Shui adjustments that might be employed for the study.

• In the child’s room:
  • Tone down the light in the room.
  • Use color, specifically light brown, gray, dark purple, deep red, or green. Keep the colors “mild.”
  • Add 9 pots of plants and perform the Flower Cure (for 27 days).
  • Use the sense of touch, placing something that feels different and will be felt throughout the day. It may wake up the ch’i of the child.
  • Play mellow music constantly.
  • Play gentle chanting in the background.
  • Create something, that when touched, will create a sound. The sound may actually calm the child.
• In the parent’s room:
  • Use any of the above, especially calm and gentle sound.
  • Once again, it comes back to the parents.
• Both the child and the parents may benefit from a crystal infused with the Great Compassion Mantra.

At the same time, Professor reminded all of us to recognize that these Feng Shui adjustments may not solve the problem. He emphasized that we must look at the chi from many different perspectives to offer the most effective assistance. Our job is more than moving the furniture, and requires of us a degree of cultivation that allows us to answer a simple question with a
level of mastery that understands that life is complex. We must see the yin of the yang, and know that there are reasons and solutions beyond our rational understanding.

Answering one question, he guided us to review and understand clearly his Theory of Multiple Causes. He, once again, taught us concepts that stretch our thinking and our beliefs. He gave us an answer to the exact question, but did not get caught in limited thinking. He deepened our wisdom, and gave us the gift of moving beyond our thoughts and ourselves.

It was, indeed, a special moment in time.

A Note from Katherine:

I spoke with the woman later, as we agreed to lend her our Magnetic Field Protocol for the study. At that time, she had not decided what Feng Shui adjustment to employ for the study. I did ask her the following question:

With all of Professor’s suggestions, would she consider using her expertise and inspiration to make the “appropriate” adjustments, and use the appropriate chi cultivation methods for each child (even if they are different for each child)?

Her answer was that this approach would not lend itself to a scientific study, and I am sure that she is correct. However, if she could make a difference in the life of a group of children using her knowledge and inspiration, would not the medical community take notice? Perhaps funding would then be easier to get.

It seems time to use our knowledge and show the world that life holds many options for healing. Science will catch up.