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No matter how small an area we haveto work with, we can use grasses and bamboos to create a space for solitude, asacred space, or just a space to sit and relax ,listening to the gentlemovement and music of ten thousand leaves murmuring a lullaby in the gentlestof breezes."
" By doing this we hope to make oursurrounding environment so supportive of our attitudes, aspirations andopportunities as to make real changes for the better."
' QiConcepts'
Psychologist Carl Jung wrote,
"The Chinese mind, as I see itat work in the I Ching, seems to be exclusively preoccupied with the chanceaspect of events. What we call coincidence seems to be the chief concern ofthis peculiar mind, and what we worship as causality passes almostunnoticed...While the Western mind carefully sifts, weighs, selects,classifies, isolates, the Chinese picture of the moment encompasses everythingdown to the minutest nonsensical detail, because all of the ingredients make upthe observed moment."
What is the meaning of Feng Shui:
Feng Shui pronounced foongshway means Wind and Water. This is more of a literal translationthan explanation. "Wind is what cannot be seen, but can be felt andwater is what cannot be grasped. This is a good description of Qi, thesubtle, illusive all pervasive stuff of life. Whether we can read much moreinto the meaning than that I think is a matter for the individual to reflecton. Certainly, wind and water both exist as the two most abundant and powerfulsubstances on the face of the earth. Both their individual mass and energy isastonishing and when combined quite awesome. Without wind in our lungs andwater in our bodies, we would last a very short time. In fact, no forms oflife, animal, vegetable, bacteria or fungus could exist at all.
Tai Chi. The Yin and Yang
The Yin and Yang, the balance of opposites and theduality of life. Represented by the symbolic Tai Qi. Yin and Yang are thenegative and positive energies governing all human life and all things in theuniverse. Yin the black segment in the Tai Qi is the heavy, passive, feminine, receptive orcontracting quality of nature and life. Yang the white segment in the Tai Qi is the rising, forceful, masculineexpansive side of nature and life.
Neither the qualities of Yin and Yang are better thaneach other, they are equally attracted, repelled, dependent and stimulated byeach other, hence the small spot of the opposite colour in each segment. Theyare constantly in flux flowing back and forth, expanding, contracting, andmaintaining a balance within the universe.
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Above:The Chinese characters for Feng(top) meaning wind and Shui (bottom) meaning water .
Festuca 'Golden toupee'
Phyllostachys nigra
Uncinia New Zealand Hook Sedge
Carex 'Ice Dance'
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Feng Shui is a vast and complexsubject and to cover the broader subject in depth is beyond the scope of thissite so the subject matter is limited to Form School practice which covers thebasic principles to be applied in our gardens. For further reference there aremany good books available including "QiConcepts" from which most of this text has beenreproduced. Whatis Feng Shui? The principles of Feng Shui are based on philosophy, naturalscience, Chinese metaphysics and the art of encouraging positive and beneficialinfluences. It is the ancient Chinese practice of channeling these positive andinvisible influences and energies by a variety of different avenues or meansthrough mediums such as attraction, alignment, direction, association andlocation in order to promote and enhance the harmony and well-being of oursurrounding environment. Bydoing this we hope to make our surrounding environment so supportive of ourattitudes, aspirations and opportunities as to make real changes for thebetter. |
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Feng Shui aims to improve our lives byunblocking the flow of these energies and encouraging the passage of good anduseful energy or Sheng Qi as known in Chinese. By allowing Sheng Qi free flowthrough our spaces and our immediate environment, it is encouraged toaccumulate gently around and in our homes, gardens and workspaces improving ourlives and that of those around us in general. " Where Sheng Qi gathers life is richer and much fuller ofopportunities". Qi is a concept unfamiliar to a Western mind or way of thinkinghowever, itis a concept that is easily grasped. As we will discover as weexplore further, particularly when we discuss energies and their cycles andphases and how they interact strengthening, weakening or destroying andnourishing each other. |
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Today in the modern West landis in short supply, it is expensive, it is in many cases tired or has beenoverworked or polluted in some way. Town and country planning, and buildingregulations, roads, utilities as well as the need for services, schools,education, medical care and employment opportunities all dictate where and howwe should live. Allthese factors and more are adding daily to the growing number of problems andrestrictions that people in the modern West are faced with; impinging on anyeffort by an individual to apply the principles of Feng Shui and improvetheir surrounding environment and their lot in general. However no matter how small an area we have to work with we can use ornamental grasses andbamboos to create a space for solitude a sacred space or just a space to sitand relax listening to the gentle movement and music of ten thousand leavesmurmuring a lullaby in the gentlest of breezes. |
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