Written by : Master Sheng-yen Lu
Translated by : Janny Chow
Someone once asked me, "Among the many house forms, which kind is best?"
I replied, "Any form that is balanced is auspicious."
At first glance, it might seem that an architecturally balanced form would be a simple concept to detect, but, in reality, it can be quite complicated.
Some people enjoy novel and unusual designs and have built houses in strange looking shapes. As long as these designs comply and do not clash with the principle of the constructive movements of the Five Elements, then these may still be considered balanced designs. For example, in Tantric Buddhism (based on the association between the five charkas and the Five Enlightened Wisdows) stupas symbolizing the five charkas have been constructed consisting, from top to bottom, of the following shapes: dome, elongated semi-circle, triangle, circle, and square.
The Five Elements are fire, wood, water, metal, and earth. According to the principle of the constructive movements of the Five Elements, earth generates metal, metal generates water, water generates wood, and wood generates fire. Using this principle, one can build structures based on shapes of the Five Elements, arrange in a clockwise fashion, and devise novel, unusual, and original designs.
Generally, unless one seeks to be deliberately "stylish," any conventionally balanced house is very auspicious.
One important aspect that needs to be taken into consideration is the balance of the "dragon side" and the "tiger side" of the house. When standing at the front door facing outside, the "dragon side" is to your left and the "tiger side" to your right. The ideal condition is to have the "dragon" and "tiger" balanced.
A tall dragon may be balanced by a long tiger, or a long dragon balanced by a tall tiger. Geomancers generally consider a taller or longer dragon to be auspicious and a taller or longer tiger to be inauspicious.
The most auspicious house shape has a "green dragon" and a "white tiger" matching and in balance.
There is a feng-shui verse that states?
When a sharp peak emerges from White Tiger Hill,
The wife will definitely abuse the husband.
This verse describes a situation in which the white tiger is taller than the green dragon. It also implies that a servant may dominate his master, or that there may be a reversal of roles between the male and female with the yin overpowering the yang. As a result, the environment may be one of disharmony and imbalanced with earth energy that invites the malign force of "sha-chi," portending great misfortunes.
I once perfomed a feng-shui reading for the abbot of a monastery. The monastery, with its back NNE, faced the SSW direction, with the feng-shui compass indicating the trigram "ken." Water at the front of the monastery flowed from east to south (from the chen position of the Later Heaven Sequence to the ch'ien position of the Former Heaven Sequence, as shown on the compass.) There was no prominant topographical armrest on either side of the monastery, and I also noticed that the abbot's living quarters was not located at a commanding position, but rather at a site right below the White Tiger Hill.
I asked the abbot, "Who lives in the White Tiger Hill?'
"The disciples," he replied.
"Soon your post will be taken from you," I said to him.
"Why?"
"The circumstance here is that of a subordinate overtaking the master; it will only be a matter of time before you lose your position."
The abbot was an honest monk, and he was visibly saddened by my feng-shui assessment. Several years later, however, I heard he was no longer the abbot of the monastery.
A taller or longer white tiger signifies the presence of an overpowering force. Most people living in places with a high White Tiger Hill will gradually develop nervousness, power cravings, competitiveness, or start harboring dark schemes against others. In short, there will be no auspiciousness or peace in such a situation.
When buying land to build a house, one must figure out clearly which direction the house will face, as the direction the front door faces plays an extremely critical role. It is best that the direction be favorable to one as determined by one's date of birth. Pay attention to the matching of the green dragon and white tiger. Do not allow the white tiger to be taller or to stand out because this signifies great misfortunes. It will be too late for regrets once disasters occur.
Of course, there are Taoist and Tantric methods to avert and remedy bad feng-shui situations such as this. These methods belong to either the "suppression category" or the "remedy category" and may provide temporary resolutions.
General feng-shui practitioners may be able to assess a situation and offer resolutions, but they may not neccessarily understand that implicated in the art and science of feng-shui are the principles of Tai Chi, Two Forms, Four Appearances, Five Elements, Eight Triagrams, and other principles governing the workings of the universe. In a place where there is a clash or assault of noxious chi, one can transform the adverse situation into a peaceful one using the "suppression method." Such remedies, in fact, not only avert disasters, but may result in great benefits as well. Their efficacies are indeed inconceivable.
At places (on the dragon side of buildings) where I, Living Buddha Lian-sheng, have installed stone tablets for the dragon spirit, people have often seen golden and green lights. Some have even seen the dragon and heard it roaring sounds. Lights bright as the sun and moon have been observed emanating from the sites. To resolve the problem posed by a white tiger that is too tall, it is necessary to install, on the dragon side, Living Buddha Lian-sheng's green dragon stone tablet.
Source:
http://www.padmakumara.org/books/book69/chap8.shtml
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