What is Feng Shui?
I found this definition of Feng Shui from Wikipedia:
Feng Shui is a Chinese belief system involving a mix of geographical, religious, philosophical, mathematical, aesthetic, and astrological ideas. It literally means “wind (feng) and water (shui)”, and is not simply a decorating style, but a discipline with guidelines compatible with many different decorating styles.
Feng Shui (pronounced “fung shway”) is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement of space to achieve harmony with the environment. The literal translation is “wind and water”.
The source of the term is purported to come from the Burial Book written by Guo Pu in the Jin Dynasty. Qi (or Chi) rides the wind and stops when it meets the boundary of water. The ancients could manipulate Qi so that it did not dissipate, and directed it so that it was retained. For this reason this art is called Feng Shui.
For a place to have “good Feng Shui” is for it to be in harmony with nature, and to have “bad Feng Shui” is to be incongruous with nature. Although people aren’t usually described as having good or bad Feng Shui themselves, believers in feng shui say that certain people by force of personality or visual appearance are able to add or subtract from the Feng Shui of their surroundings.
There is quite a bit more information, and if you are interested here is the link: Feng Shui. I found another definition at About.com:
“Feng Shui teaches us how to create harmony and balance around us,” says Stanley Bartlett, who uses the centuries-old art to design homes and businesses. “Everything is related to everything. If we pay attention to our environment, then we will find ways of creating different realities in our lives. When we move the bed, we also change our relationship with things around us in ways there aren’t words for.”
Feng Shui is the ancient art of placement. Your personal belongings in the home are positioned in a specific arrangement to enhance chi to bring harmony and balance to your life. Chi is an invisible energy that swirls around us at all times. Feng Shui translated literally means wind and water because the chi travels on the air and water currents.
The main purpose of utilizing the Feng Shui principles is to bring harmony and balance into your home.
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shirley
To be in harmony with nature… Now that’s an interesting thought, because I am sitting here looking out my window at nature, wondering if there really IS harmony out there.. or if it is an illusion or an idea that we have made up in our heads.
Or.. is it rather the idea of being in harmony with the “laws” of nature.. that seems more true to me. Nature is inexorable.. unrelenting.. impersonal.. dangerous and deadly.. and at the same time it is our nurturer and sustainer. The God and the Goddess. I think it would be a really good idea to stay in harmony with that!!
If I look outside and try to find harmony in the bits and pieces of nature that I see – there is none -all I see is a drive to live, to survive, to reach up for the sun, and down for the water.. to cling to the earth.. to breathe the sweet (hopefully) air.. It’s all about being alive for one small moment.. and then being the food..
I don’t know where I am going with this.. if I am going to have long philosophical ramblings about nature, then I probably really ought to do that outside.. sitting on the ground.. and being quiet inside myself.. but I won’t because its chilly out and the ground is cold and wet and muddy.. and I have things to do, places to go, people to be.