Chapter 28 - Houses That Produce Rich Men

Once I was studying a broken house in a bamboo forest. The house was literally in ruins.

I told the owner, however, that "the person who lives in this house will definitely get rich."

The owner didn't believe me, saying, "My grandfather lived here and died of hunger on the road. My father lived here and suffered from both poverty and illness. Now I live here, and I haven't succeeded in anything. I find it very hard to believe what you said."

"The time hasn't come yet. When the time comes, you'll certainly become very rich."

"What is the time? Where is luck?"

"It's coming."

"How do you know, Master, that I'll get rich?"

"In front of your gate, there is water flow that goes against the usual direction. The water comes from the northwest, which is called Gen water from the Gen mountain paying respect to ant wasps. it is a sign of getting rich." (Note: Gen is one of the eight characters in Chinese divination, which represents mountain, northwest and strength.)

"What else?"

"Your house is made of clay chunks. It is earth upon fire; earth and fire facilitate each other

- so the time you get rich is coming."

"Why didn't my family get rich earlier? Why now?"

I gave him the following verse:

The guards inside fly,

The guards outside look back.

Distant mountains all pay respect

To a house that is far away,

Which is poor to start with

and get rich later.

Not long after I left the broken house, a building dealer came and wanted to buy from the owner a piece of land at the foot of the mountain. There wasn't much trace of human life here, but ever since the dealer put up a lot of houses, it had become a quarter of "country villas". They were all sold out at one go.

The owner of the house made a lot of money and he bought pieces of land and built more new houses for sale. He again made a lot of money, never losing a penny. The owner now has become President of the Board of Directors of a building company. He is a millionaire. He has many houses of his own. He drives the most luxurious car, smokes the best cigars, and wears the most elegant suits.

However, every evening before he goes to bed, he would ask his driver to take him to the broken house secretly. He still sleeps in the shabby house of clay. The house has been slightly furnished, without the slightest change in its outside appearance. This is because he now believes that it is this house of clay that has brought the luck and fortune.

Why poverty first and wealth later?

"The guards inside fly" - in front of his house, the hills on both sides go up very gradually, without forming an enclosure to his house. This is why the family was poor at first.

"The guards outside look back" - in front of the house, the distant mountains turn back to look at the house. This is why the family became rich later.

"Distant mountains all pay respect..." - the distant mountains all look back at the house, thus forming a protective enclosure to the house.

This is my bold judgement.

In the study of land features, I have my own tricks of the trade. I pay attention to the owner's Five Elements - gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Once these elements are identified, I look at the land concerned. The land also has these five elements. The relation between the person's Five Elements and those of his land (or house) can be either harmonious or contradictory. Harmony augurs wealth and contradiction foretells poverty.

When I enter a house, I can identify immediately where its store of wealth is. I make a special effort to make the store of wealth really collect vitality forces as well as wealth.

I have a verse about how to get rich:

If the developing forces come in by the hall,

The store of wealth never suffers a fall.

If you remember to put in the store plants green forever,

The family will certainly grow for ever and ever.

If a house is on a piece of Gen land and Shen water comes to pay respect (Shen is one of the Twelve Heavenly Stems in Chinese divination), it is a wonderful sign of rapid development. Money will pour in irresistably, filling up all the jars and boxes.

The pithy formulas to make a house rich are worth hundreds of thousands of tales of gold. To be able to see if a house is lucky or not is not enough. We should also help the owner to make money. True masters of geomancy are able to help the owner make money; otherwise they are sham masters.

I, Living Buddha Lian Shen, have studied geomancy for many years and have really gone deep into the subject. It is a great pity that people in the world do not know clearly that most of the masters are sham masters who can mouth fine words but with no accuracy to speak of. They have really discredited geomancy.

I can say the pithy formula for making a house rich is invaluable.

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