Chapter 23 - An Ancient Well And A Water Tower

Once when I was in Taiwan, I studied a building of the western-style in Lin Yun.

The owner of the building had lost three of his family members within one year after he had moved into the house. One of them was old, but the other two were young, too young to die yet.

I visited the Hall of Gods and paid my respect to the gods with joined palms. Then we were seated in the sitting-room.

Presently I told the owner: "I would guess that right under this building there was once a well. Is that right?"

The owner was amazed. "That's right. You're indeed out of ordinary. This piece of land was handed down from our forefathers. There was a well here. But it was filled up when the house was built."

I told the owner more: "In the well, there was the spirit of a person who was killed. When you filled up the well, you didn't deliver it first. Since it is still down there, the place is naturally haunted."

"Wow!" The owner was almost speechless. Then he said, "It was said that my great grandfather had a concubine. She was so wronged that she drowned herself in the well. This is what my father told me when I was very small."

"But how did you know?" he asked me.

"Your gods told me just now," I laughed.

"Do you know where the well is?" The owner wanted to give me a test.

"Of course!" I stood up and walked up to a bath-room. Pointing to the bath-room, I told the owner it was down there.

"You have my admiration, Master Lu. I'm convinced that you are Number One geomancer in the whole world!"

This incident about the ancient well is well known among my students who went there with me. The way to avert misfortune is to pray.

1. Deliver the wronged spirit in the well.

2. Dig deep in the bath-room where the well is and bury green bamboo with magic words on them.

Since then, the building has been very peaceful.

I, Living Buddha Lian Shen, believe that an old well has a very important place in the residence. The well was the very source of life for many people in the old times and had important bearings on the well-being. A well symbolizes water, an essential aspect in geomancy. To dig a well and to fill up a well are both to produce effects on the future of the residence.

Most ancient wells have living beings in them and their spirits may also stay there.

Ancient wells are not only found in Taiwan, but also found in the United States. Here in the States, in houses near lakes, in out-of-the-way places, or places where the running water system cannot reach, wells are dug for underground water.

If you want to "fill up" a well, get some green bamboos, peel off the skin, write on them the mantra of soil pacification, and, on a lucky date , throw the bamboo pieces into the well before filling it up with earth.

Still better, hold a ceremony of deliverance first before earth-filling.

This is the praying method handed down from Master Qing Zhen.

In the States, to fill up a well, they invite a priest who sprinkles some sacred water and prays for peace before the earth-filling.

To fill up a well is a magic event and should not be taken lightly. The reason is that both digging up a well and filling up a well have important effects in the residence and so some caution is justified.

Closely connected with underground water are water towers. Water towers are usually taller than all the residence buildings they serve and are naturally huge objects. Therefore they are "powerful", that is, they have important effects on the buildings. A water tower often makes the whole building as asymmetrical as it usually shoots up high and it is difficult to cover it up.

I would suggest that to avert the bad influence of the water tower on the residence, the tower must be perfectly designed and another building of similar size is also designed opposite the tower to cancel out its "power". This extra building can serve many purposes and take away the destructive power of the water power.

I was once asked to study a factory. On the northern side (the tiger side) of the factory there stood a water tower, the highest among the factory buildings. The water tower made their freight cars have one accident after another, with great losses. Besides, the share-holders began to struggle for power instead of working in cooperation. The workers gradually became dispirited and slacked away.

I suggested to them that another water tower of the same height be built exactly opposite the first tower, on the southern side (the dragon side) of the factory, in perfect balance.

Strangely enough, once the water tower on the southern side was completed, everything was balanced and their freight cars were free from accidents; the workers became active and efficient again; the shareholders resumed their cooperation.

The water tower is preferably covered up.

Otherwise two symmetrical towers are preferred.

These are two ways to control the negative forces of a single water power.

Both ancient wells and water towers are often neglected in building residences, but in fact their locations must be chosen with great care.

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