Book 69 - Household Feng-Shui

I once performed a feng-shui reading for a very quiet, elegant home. Located in a nice neighborhood, the house had a fine shape and an auspicious floor plan. The furniture had even been arranged to conform to the rules of feng-shui. The owner of the house had previously consulted several famous feng-shui masters and had been told that everything was fine. However, as soon as I stepped inside the house, I could sense something unusual about it.

"I don't think there is anything wrong with the feng-shui of this house, but there is something strange in the air, a presence of unusual spirit energy" I told the owner.

The owner asked me, "In which particular spot of the house is this energy the strongest?"

Turning into my extrasensory perception, I walked through each room of the house until I came to the swimming pool located in the backyard. Stopping before it, I said, "This is the spot."

The owner remarked, "Living Buddha Lian-sheng, you are indeed extraordinary. Many unusual happenings have occurred right at this swimming pool."

The owner then recounted the following occurrences: People swimming in the pool experienced intolerable coldness after staying in the pool for a short while. Every person who swam in the pool developed leg cramps. A person swimming alone would occasionally feel tugs at his legs, and if he swam underwater, he would feel the presence of another person swimming alongside him. Sometimes, late at night, when there was no one swimming, the sounds of water play could be heard.

"Oh! There are noxious spirits dwelling here," I said.
After looking into the matter, it was discovered that before the construction of the current house, an old hospital had stood on the site. The current swimming pool was where the morgue of the hospital had been. Due to the hospital's old age and other requirements for the land, the hospital had been torn down and replaced. However, the spirit energy of the original hospital had not dissipated, and this led to the manifestation of strange phenomena.

A house can inherit "noxious spirits" from the earth upon which it is built because such sites are ruins of temples, hospitals, cemeteries, old battlefields, execution grounds, murder scenes, disaster scenes caused by fires, earthquakes, or other calamities, and shrines. If, for no reason at all, strange phenomena and mishaps occur at such sites, it is usually due to the presence of "noxious spirits." Homicides also occur unexpectedly where noxious spirits are present.

To deal with such situations, some feng-shui masters advocate the bulldozing and removal of fifty centimeters of topsoil from the original site and replacement of the old soil with clean soil. Removing earth possessed by spirits is one way to control noxious energy.

However, if a home has already been built upon the site, one can only use one the following "averting" methods:

Taoist practitioners may use the "Nine Phoenix Pure Water Method that Removes Impurities." (This method was discussed on one of my previous books.)

Buddhist practitioners may first chant the Great Compassion Dharani, to prepare the Great Compassion Dharani water, then sprinkled this water from the inside of the house to the outside. One should then prepare sections of green bamboo, shave off the skin, and write on each section the Earth God Mantra of "Om, du-lu, du-lu, de-wei, so-ha." One must then stick these bamboo sections into the earth surrounding the house, as a means to restrain the ominous energy. This signifies that spirits attached to the soil cannot disturb people living on that piece of land, nor can they enter into the land anymore.

More conventional methods include the sprinkling of holy water by Catholic priests, the Taoist purification method, and the Buddhist rituals of compassionate chanting and Bardo Deliverance.

Not all homes afflicted with noxious spirits were built on land once occupied by temples, cemeteries, hospitals, battlefields, or execution grounds. I had once done a reading for a home with noxious spirits whose owner was a connoisseur of antiques. He had amassed a collection of antique beds, tables, shrine tables, and utensils, some of which had "spirits" attached to them. His whole family had been thrown into turmoil without knowing the cause.

Also, certain areas attract noxious spirits simply because the earth chi is strongly "yin" to begin with. Spirits and ghosts love to assemble at such places; these include dark cinemas, deep and secluded valleys, unusual castles, and old houses.

Most feng-shui masters do not have cures for a home whose energy has been arrested by sspirits. My study of the spiritual world has given me insight into the "noxious spirits" that cause energy disturbances. Feng-shui is the art of balancing the magnetic, subtle energy field of a house or building. If the energy of the house's magnetic field flows smoothly, its inhabitants feel peace and comfort. If this magnetic field is disturbed, chaos arises, and people living in the house experience agitation and roadblocks in their relationships.

Noxious spirits are invisible. According to The Spirits of Earth Magic, the presence of noxious spirits means the house is haunted. For ordinary people, it is better to avoid living in such haunted houses. However, I, Living Buddha Lian-sheng love to live in haunted places because I can convert the disruptive vibrations of these entities into harmonious frequencies. By befriending the ghosts, they become one's helpers. Feng-shui professionals need not fear noxious spirits as they can be recruited to increase business, harmony, and success in one's life.

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