Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail From: nagasiva@luckymojo.com (mu) Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.philosophy.taoism,alt.magick,alt.chinese.fengshui,alt.divination Subject: feng ch'i (was ch'i) Organization: Sonoma Interconnect,Santa Rosa,CA(us),http://www.sonic.net Lines: 41 Sender: yronwode@sonic.net Message-ID: <8cd6eq$c9e@bolt.sonic.net> References: Reply-To: spam@luckymojo.com X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.4 (NOV) Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 16:49:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.224.36 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 954866967 208.201.224.36 (Tue, 04 Apr 2000 09:49:27 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 09:49:27 PDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:22512 alt.philosophy.taoism:69211 alt.magick:187163 alt.chinese.fengshui:11395 alt.divination:16770 50000404 IVom key@springhaven.org: >...in taoism there is the notion of natural things following >the nature of water. that is to say that it conforms to its >container, that it flows downhill, that it wears down mountains, >floods when held back, moves around obstacles, etc. yin power >...the placement >of things in feng shui is like shaping the riverbed, thus one changes >the motion of wind and water. and reading of forces is like surveying, thus one avoids turbulence and eddies in which one would rather not get caught up >as nathan engle often says the world has an inertia. watching this >inertia helps in choosing the most effective course. watching the >movement of water, watching the movement of ch'i; this is the watching >of the world's inertia. glimpsing deeper structures enables wider range of options >even without water >one sees riverbeds >the flow of the river old man fell into river thrashed about in white waters and climbed out some distance downstream were he not fluid like river he would be dashed to pieces on rocks protruding at odd angles were he not relaxed in composure he would be drowned in water deeper than he could stand -- mailto:nagasiva@luckymojo.com ; http://www.luckymojo.com/nagasiva.html mailto:boboroshi@satanservice.org ; http://www.satanservice.org/ emailed replies may be posted; cc replies if response desired