Written by : Master Sheng-yen Lu
Translated by : Janny Chow
Two students of mine, a husband and wife from Vancouver, Canada, came one day to see me. Chao Shao-tung and his wife, both young and intelligent, are currently the editors-in-chief of the monthly journal True Buddha Bodhi.
The young man Chao Shao-tung has delicate feautures and his wife is kind and gentle. The couple is a rare one in that both partners practice Buddhism. Both are also talented linguists who speak fluent English, Mandarin, and Cantonese.
They said to me, "Grand Master, we have a request to make."
"What is it?"
"We would like to have twins," they replied kneeling before me.
"Twins? Why?" I asked surprised.
"The study and practice of Buddhism is very important to us and life is so short. We would like to have two children, but with two separate births, it will take a lot of time to raise the children. If we could have twins, it will save us alot of time, and we can devote more time to our practice. This is our wish, and we hope Grandmaster can help us."
Upon hearing this, I could not help but smile. I replied, " I can give you a blessing and also pray to the Buddhas on your behalf. May you be granted twins." Chao Shao-tung and his wife are a very sincere and devoted couple of high moral character and rare talents. They will be future pillars of the True Buddha School!
This request for twins brought back memories of an interesting feng-shui case I once encountered in a small village in Kaoshiung. There, eight out of every ten families had twins!
At the time, the village council, the learned in the community, and the residents themselves were mystified. Why were so many families having twins?
I paid a visit to the village and discovered that the mysterious twin births had to do with the locale's feng-shui. From the main road at the village entrance, I saw two metal-element mountains located near one another, like two breast or two bellies, one in front and one behind. Readings from my geomantic compass revealed a watercourse running from the "kuei" direction toward the twin mountains.
This feng-shui arrangement, twin mountains connected like breasts receiving water from the "kuei" direction, is a known pattern associated with the appearance of twins.
Another feng-shui feature associated with twins is a door of a main room directly facing a fire-element mountain and the entering of water in double channels around the house.
The Secrets of Earth Magic contains the following verse:
Why is there the prevalence of twin births?
Twin chi faces the main living room;
An examination of earth chi in surrounding mountains and waters
Allows one to make reasonable assertions with assurance.
Why then do families with twins also have single births? This is a result of the "waxing and waning of chi." One may live at a location with feng--shui features for twin births, but the energy of the earth waxes and wanes. Conception during a time when "the twin births earth chi" is in a waning phase will result in a single birth.
The orientation of one's front door also plays a significant role. Whether the front door faces the twin mountains or fire-element mountain in a direct or oblique manner makes a difference. Such features account for twin births and single births, and these factors also explain the single births in the village of Kaohsiung where twin births predominated.
In general, feng-shui features of sites producing large families are as follows:
A metal-element landform is seen from the front. This landform is layered and contains positive, nourishing elements such as vibrant earth chi. Landforms protect and cradle the site on the dragon and tiger sides, and the front of the site is wide and spacious with nodestructive features to the left or to the right.
Feng-shui features associated with few family members are as follows:
Land with flat topography lacking earth chi; a watercourse (wet or dry) running toward the front of the house; houses situated in front of or behind temples.
Additionally, the following feng-shui verse describes features associated with infertility (the trigrams in the verse refer to those in Later Heaven Circle):
High formation in sun,
Single peak at li and tui,
Blooming flowers and the presence of ponds in kun,
All may lead to infertility.
Feng-shui is an extremely intriguing subject. The more one studies it, the more fascinating one finds it to be.
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