dmc

[dmc]

He provides the balance that would otherwise would succumb us to lemming-dom.

It's my job....

BAlance...

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[RootDKJ]

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trippy8)

 

[dmc]

trippy8)

 

[severine]

Feng Shui?

 

[dmc]

Feng Shui?

I Ching
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang#I_Ching

 

[severine]

I Ching
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang#I_Ching

The directions had me thinking the other. Interesting...

 

[dmc]

The directions had me thinking the other. Interesting...

I bet on some level the 2 philosophies interact - thats the great thing about eastern philosophies - it all intertwines...

 

[severine]

I bet on some level the 2 philosophies interact - thats the great thing about eastern philosophies - it all intertwines...

Very cool thing about Eastern philosophies.

Don't know if this is accurate, but a quick search of the 2 netted this:
http://www.circle-of-light.com/fengshui/fs-history.html

 

[RootDKJ]

Trippier

 

[gladerider]

I bet on some level the 2 philosophies interact - thats the great thing about eastern philosophies - it all intertwines...

i'd say feng shui is a bigger system that includes i ching. i ching is an ancient text whereas feng shui is a system. i ching attempts to explain feng shui's fundamentals in a methodical/scientific way. i ching is approximately 2000 years old and feng shui is a 4000+ years old.

i hope that helps you to put them in a better perspective. believe it or not, those morse code looking like lines you see are the principles of the modern day's binary system that gave us the computers. Liebnitz was a huge fan of eastern thought and knew the i ching.

 

[deadheadskier]

heady

 

[tarponhead]

i'd say feng shui is a bigger system that includes i ching. i ching is an ancient text whereas feng shui is a system. i ching attempts to explain feng shui's fundamentals in a methodical/scientific way. i ching is approximately 2000 years old and feng shui is a 4000+ years old.

i hope that helps you to put them in a better perspective. believe it or not, those morse code looking like lines you see are the principles of the modern day's binary system that gave us the computers. Liebnitz was a huge fan of eastern thought and knew the i ching.

That explanation rocked.

 

[gladerider]

That explanation rocked.

thanks neighbor (live in murray hill)

 

[dmc]

i'd say feng shui is a bigger system that includes i ching..

thats what I was thinking.. everythings intertwined... i just haven't figured it out yet..

I started getting interested in this on my first trip to Korea... i started focussing in on it and looking for examples while at temples and palaces...

I get obsessed like that.... When I was in Dubai/India I was obsessed with Islamic designs.. In specific lattice work in windows...

 

[tarponhead]

I get obsessed like that.... When I was in Dubai/India I was obsessed with Islamic designs.. In specific lattice work in windows...

schrooms help.......

 

[RootDKJ]

thanks neighbor (live in murray hill)

Cool, I almost bought there. Where do you ski?

 

[RootDKJ]

schrooms help.......

Never tried 'em

 

[gladerider]

thats what I was thinking.. everythings intertwined... i just haven't figured it out yet..

I started getting interested in this on my first trip to Korea... i started focussing in on it and looking for examples while at temples and palaces...

I get obsessed like that.... When I was in Dubai/India I was obsessed with Islamic designs.. In specific lattice work in windows...

yeah, facinating stuff isn't it? i think the world is full of facination and we just don't have enough explanations preserved in documented forms.

the concept of feng shui is really old. it is so old that no one knows exactly how old. many eastern thoughts and disciplines were based on this concept of ying and yang of nature. it is so old that i wouldn't agree classifying it to chinese, korean or japanese, because this concept predates formation of countries. in the western hemisphere, we know the concept as chinese, but i guess what i am saying is that it really isn't. it is far eastern thought for sure.

i got curious sometime ago like you are now and so did some research. without writing a book on it, here is a quick skinny.

-- concept of calendar and history
i think we (the modern day folks) take calendars less seriously than people in the past. in many cultures calendars defined their knowledge, wisdom and justified political system. in the ancient asian cultures all kingdoms had their own calendar. if i went to a war and defeated my neighboring kingdom, one of the first steps to annexing it was to impose my calendar. which is the reason why many historical texts refer year BC 1050 as 30th year of the king XYZ's rein, for example. today, our calendar has just months and dates, but in the older days, it included a lot more. it had lunar phases and much more information to predict the season and time. the babylonians did the same thing, but they also included astronomical alignments. egyptians did the same thing, american indians and so did we. in america, we have a very simplified version and we call it the farmer's almanac. in short, a kingdom with a long prosperous history meant a great political governance supported by a great calendar system.

-- written language and history
is it history if it is not written? one of the reasons why we don't really know how old feng shui is is because it pre-dates written history. chinese written history goes back to around 4000 to 4500 years ago. althogh some chinese hieroglyphics are known to be as old as 8000 years, we do not know enough to know that they were used to translate THOUGHTS. i think feng shui is very old. it pre-dates written history. no one knows who started it. but, we do know this. there was a ancient kingdom called CHOU or ZHOU (1045BC-256BC). as explained before, an ancient calendar is not just months and dates, it is a system that needs many books to explain. CHOU had this system also. in the CHOU system there are many many books. i ching is part of this system. i believe that someone compiled a many thousands years old system in a text. that is what i ching is. at least i think so.

-- interesting commonalities
if you see the i ching, it is very scientific and mathmatical. the numerical progression is very complex. it starts from 0. then from there it progresses to 0 and 1, which is a numerical representation of duality in nature. heaven and the earth. night and day. male female. so on and so forth and the underlying explaination is natural balance. then it goes to progress to 4, 8, and all the way to 64. and it doesn't stop there, it keeps progressing with permutations.
it tries to explain the nature we live in in a single theory. like the way our top mathmaticians (like einstein) are trying to figure out today: theory of everything.

interesting, huh?

 

[gladerider]

Cool, I almost bought there. Where do you ski?

i ski whiteface the most. mix in a few weekends in vermont and a week somewhere in the west or something out of country.