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Book Review 2: Xuan Kong Da Gua Not Exactly For Dummies - Hung Hin Cheong

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   Lets look into Xuan Kong Da Gua Not Exactly for Dummies by Hung Hin Cheong . This is one of the rare cases we have one of the high tier Feng Shui systems fully usable based on only one book. While there is probably more to know, much may be find in reference series, what is in here seems enough to get the system working with some effort. While all may seem incredible complex at first glance, if one goes slowly and systematically into it its base is simple enough. We have Qi moving from its Source(doors for rooms, meeting points of rivers for outside, highest points of staircases etc.) to its next point. Calculating the Hexagram for the 2 points we can see how they relate. Then we connect, furniture to doors and windows, doors of apartments to doors of building, that to its next Qi Mouth etc. That seems to be all we need to use the system. All that being said, from what we tested all this seems to work exactly as given. Yet we stumbled on few problems that aren't fault of th...

Book Review 1: Chinese Metaphysical Compendium

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Silly as it may seem, but as soon as we had a store that made ordering from other countries easy where I live this was in the first batch of books I bought.  Also seems a worthy first book to start the review blog I mentioned a while ago about. First have to clear out that this is Reference book, the idea is we know how to use the tables and calculations in it. If we don't know how to use the stuff in practice there are wonderful facebook videos from Joey Yap and his many students explaining in details different approaches and ideas and of course many other Five Arts practitioners in all sorts of formats and mediums all around the webs one may enjoy. I personally find Kevin Chan material very clear and useful, so for using any of this in practice aiming at that is good. Of course there are also courses and stuff, in the academy and other places.. Yet the base framework of it all is in here and its very, very pretty and useful, at least in my humble view. Its very big book, it cover...