Taoist Feng Shui

Taoist Feng Shui
Author: Susan Levitt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 139
Release: 1999-12-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1594775826

• The first book to explain how feng shui developed from the Taoist systems of astrology, yin and yang, and the five elements. • Provides a background on Taoist philosophy to help readers better understand the principles of feng shui and how to use them properly. • Helps readers improve home, business, garden, property, neighborhoods, and much more. The Chinese art of feng shui has become extremely popular in the West, but too often advice on the subject consists of overly simplistic instructions for rearranging one's house without any explanation of the profound philosophical system behind these changes. The ancient Taoists developed feng shui from their understanding of the subtle interplay of energies that make up the universe, and no true mastery of feng shui is possible without a knowledge of Taoism. Taoist Feng Shui provides step-by-step guidelines for improving your home, business, garden, property, and neighborhood using this ancient system of knowledge. In Taoist Feng Shui, Susan Levitt traces the history of feng shui and shows how it is grounded in knowledge of yin and yang and the five Taoist elements of fire, earth, metal, water, and wood, as well as many other principles essential to Taoism. Once a background in Taoism is established, readers can better understand the philosophy behind concepts such as choosing the best colors for each room of the home, room-by-room furniture placement, yin and yang balance, correct lighting, outdoor landscaping, the function of hallways and entrances, and the proper use of mirrors, crystals, fountains, and other feng shui tools. With in-depth examples from the author's private feng shui practice, Taoist Feng Shui can help all readers transform their personal environments to create peace, harmony, health, wealth, and good fortune.

Lighting the Eye of the Dragon

Lighting the Eye of the Dragon
Author: Jessica Eckstein
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013-10-29
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1466855584

Today the art of Feng Shui, once shrouded in secrecy and superstition, is taking on new life as a powerful, practical method for enhancing one's career, health and personal growth. Unfortunately, these techniques, as taught in the U.S.A., tend to be filled with incomplete, incorrect and unnecessarily complex information. Now Dr. Baolin Wu, renown Feng Shui practitioner and living master of the complete cannon of Taoist arts, presents publicly, for the first time, the inner teachings of the White Cloud Monastery in Beijing, as passed to him from a l,000 year old oral tradition. Unlike other books on Feng Shui, this volume explains the inner reasons behind many common placement techniques, as well as detailing the exceptional meditation and Qi Gong exercises that have until now been held as hereditary secrets of the White Cloud monastery.

Taoist Astrology

Taoist Astrology
Author: Susan Levitt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 183
Release: 1997-06-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1620550636

This guide brings Chinese astrology back to its ancient roots, providing all the information you need for understanding one of the world's oldest systems of divination. The ancient Chinese people developed a sophisticated science of astrology that continues to have profound influence in China today. Rooted in the fundamentals of Taoism, it evolved into a system vastly different from Western astrology. Rather than determining personality by the time of the year in which you are born, in Taoist astrology it is the year itself that determines your character. The years form a twelve-year cycle of signs, each named after an animal. Additionally, your personality depends on which of the five traditional Taoist elements you are born under--water, wood, fire, earth, or metal. This makes for a cycle of sixty unique signs. Taoist Astrology includes information for each sign's personality, compatibility, child-parent relations, and rising and falling fortunes during the twelve-year cycle. Discussions of yin and yang, Confucianism and Buddhism, Taoist alchemy, and the connection between Taoist astrology and Western astrology give you all the background you need for understanding one of the oldest systems of divination known to humanity. Taoist Astrology differs from other books on the subject by grounding its concepts in the ancient traditions from which it originated.

Body Feng Shui

Body Feng Shui
Author: Chao-Hsiu Chen
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1999-09
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780892817696

Generously illustrated with more than 100 drawings that explain the meaning of distinctive physical characteristics, "Body Feng Shui" teaches readers how to explore their own and others' destinies by reading the truths of the soul as they appear on the human body. 168 line drawings.

The Principles of Feng Shui

The Principles of Feng Shui
Author: Larry Sang
Publisher: American Feng Shui Institute
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2013
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0964458306

After ten years of intensive research, experimentation, exploration, and teaching Feng Shui, Master Larry Sang puts forth his accumulated knowledge and insights into this book to systematically introduce Feng Shui to its readers. Written specifically to educate people about traditional Feng Shui, this is the recommended text for the Beginning and Intermediate classes.

Treasures of Tao

Treasures of Tao
Author: David Twicken
Publisher: Writers Club Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2002
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0595215483

"Treasures of Tao" reveals the deepest levels of Feng Shui, Chinese Astrology and Qi Gong.

Feng-shui

Feng-shui
Author: Eva Wong
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781570621000

Today, as people become aware of the need to recover an intimate relationship with the earth and the ecosphere, feng-shui offers a set of pragmatics in choosing a home, locating a business, developing ecologically sensitive land use, and planning a harmonious neighborhood.

Taoism

Taoism
Author: Eva Wong
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2011-03-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1590308824

A leading scholar feng shui master presents the great depth and diversity of Taoist philosophy, practices, and history in this accessible manual to the oft-misunderstood spiritual tradition. Millions of readers have come to the philosophy of Taoism thanks to the classics Tao Te Ching and the I Ching, or through the practices of t'ai chi and feng-shui, but the Tao is less known for its unique traditions of meditation, physical training, magical practice, and internal alchemy. Eva Wong, a leading Taoist practitioner and translator, provides a solid introduction to the Way. All of Taoism’s most important texts, figures, and events are covered, as well as its extraordinarily rich history and remarkable variety of practice. Sections include: • The History of Taoism traces the development of the tradition from the shamans of prehistoric China through the classical period (including the teachings of the famous sage Lao-tzu), the beginnings of Taoism as a religion, the rise of mystical and alchemical Taoism, and the synthesis of Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. • Systems of Taoism explores magical sects, divination practices, devotional ceremonies, internal alchemy, and the way of right action. • Taoist Practices discusses meditation, techniques of cultivating the body, and rites of purification, ceremony, and talismanic magic. This roadmap to the spiritual landscape of Taoism not only introduces the important events in the history of Taoism, the sages who wrote the Taoist texts, and the various schools of Taoist thinking, but also gives readers a feel for what it means to practice Taoism today. A comprehensive bibliography for further study completes this valuable reference work.

Chinese Whispers

Chinese Whispers
Author: Rosalyn Dexter
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2000
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780847822652

No book on feng shui so elegantly and eloquently targets the refined decorator as does this one. Chinese Whispers Feng Shui is an inspirational reference book that gorgeously explores this ancient Adian art in format that evokes all of the principles of this Taoist philosophy. With over 400 practical tips on applying its principles, this book has been produced for sophiticated readers and aesthetes alike.