Written by : Master Sheng-yen Lu
Translated by : Janny Chow
In a feng-shui reading I once came across a unique and very strange case.
The family to which I am referring lived in an old compound with houses surrounding a central courtyard. Two branches of this family's clan had experienced quite inexplicable tragedies: all the males had died at the age of twenty-eight.
The father died of an illness at twenty-eight. An uncle's whereabouts overseas became unknown the year he turned twenty-eight. The eldest son, at age twenty-eight, fell to his death while climbing a mountain. The second son died of cancer at twenty-eight.
Now the third son was fast approaching twenty-eight. His fear of dying an early death led him to many temples to pray and seek consultations. The answers he received, however, were all different and made him very anxious.
The family was very large and several members invited me to inspect their ancestors's burial sites as well as their living quarters in hopes of ascertaining the causes of this curse which resulted in death at twenty-eight.
My inspection revealed nothing wrong with their ancestors' burial sites, however, there were several shortcomings in the design of their living quarters. I pointed out the various flaws and suggested they quickly remedy the situations.
The family compound was built amidst a grove of trees in the countryside. Many ponds surrounded the compound - some with water, some dry, and some almost dry. Upon examining the ponds more closely, I found many problems. Water from one pond entered the courtyard of the compound, while water from another pond pointed at two houses on the side. One pond even had its water pointing at the main door.
First I told the family to fill the dry ponds. I then asked them to modify the ponds that had water into crescent shapes with the inner curves facing the compound (so the compound would be "inside the bows").
The front quarter of this quadrangle compound was very tall, but the newer quarter at the back of the compound, which was built after the first, was too low in comparison. Such cases, where the front of a house is taller than the rear, indicate a loss of members, particularly young family members.
I asked the family to remodel the rear quarter of the compound and bring it to the same height as the front quarter. I told them it was very important that the houses at the back be at the same height as houses at the front.
They followed my recommendations and made the changes.
They then asked, "Why did the men all die at the age of twenty-eight?"
Offhand, it was quite difficult for me to explain. I replied, "There must be a connection somewhere in this compound with the number twenty-eight. For example, when you add them up, there may be a total of twenty-eight pillars or a total of twenty-eight trees surrounding this compound. Or there may be twenty-eight stoves, twenty-eight beams, or twenty-eight doors..."
"Twenty-eight stoves? We cannot possibly have that many stoves!" they exclaimed.
"I don't think so either," I said with a smile. "That was just an example."
Later, they told me they indeed counted and found a total of twenty-eight pillars around the compound. They were impressed with the prediction.
They asked, "Does this mean we should add more pillars?"
"No," I replied. "Do you think increasing the number of pillars to one hundred will allow everyone to live to be one hundred years old? The number of pillars was just one factor in determining the age of death. The main causes lay in the ponds and the fact that the front of the compound was taller than the rear."
I explained, "Too little pond water indicated an inability to live to a full age. The corners of the ponds pointing directly at the main door and the side houses fit the feng-shui pattern known as 'penetrating the heart and shooting the cheeks.' It signified the inauspicious phenomenon of male members dying young.
"The heights of the front and rear houses represented the different generations in the family. The front houses represent former generations and the rear houses represent later generations. The low height of the rear houses indicated a loss of younger members of the family. It is proper for the rear part of a house to be at the same level of taller than the front part of a house. A lower rear house signifies great disaster."
Ten years after inspecting this large quadrangle compound, the family told me that, after making the modifications, people living in the compound have enjoyed greater peace. Several male members have lived passed twenty-eight without encountering serious catastrophes. Their features of dying at twenty-eight have now been dispelled.
I, Living Buddha Lian-sheng, am particularly good at identifying houses that can cause "undue deaths in the family." I also can identify houses that "bear no children."
In The Secrets of Earth Magic, there is the following verse:
Without protrusion, members will be scarce,
Without earth chi, no child will be born;
With high pressure, all children die,
With assault from water, no child can survive.
A house completely devoid of protrusions is inauspicious for it signifies a lonely household with few members. If the topography of the land is so flat that there is little presence of earth chi, the household will not have any children. Great overbearing forces oppressing the house from all sides also can cause miscarriages and the breaking off of a bloodline. In cases where water directly points at a house on all four sides, not even a single child will remain!
A house located before or behind a temple may also exhibit the above phenomena because its earth chi is already drawn up by the temple.
The presence or absence of earth chi has a great impact on the feng-shui of a house. In truth, only a geomancer with the ability to read earth chi can be considered a true expert. The earth chi of a house not only affects the number of people in a family but also impacts their health. As a final word of caution: do not live on land devoid of earth chi.
Source:
http://www.padmakumara.org/books/book69/chap29.shtml
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