The Nature Of BaZi

Question: I have been reading on the internet on and off for the last few years. I notice the more I read the further I got confused. I tried visiting fungshui masters twice to clear my doubts but the experience are not too well. One of the master was pushy on me to buy his product ornaments. I do not know clearly if wearing these things does helps. The other master told me quite opposite of the earlier master reading but both did not answer my questions.

Your questions posted on 1 & 2 kind of shocked me. It further confirmed that I'm confuse with my research. I could not answer any of your question. All I could conclude from my understanding and I really believe are as follows,

1) Bazi set our destiny. It is fated and nothing could change it.

2) We could not turn what is bad into good and good into bad.

3) The only thing I could do is prevent bad turning into worst and maximizing what is good.

4) And to tell when is good and bad lies in the year, month, day and even hour.

By now you should have know that it is a bad year for me in 2011. I did badly this year and with all the good news saying that 2012 is a good year for rooster, I doubt it will be any use if I do not get the timing to size favorable opportunities. Thinking back, I have made wrong decision often spot on at the wrong timing and missed good times watching it passes by. The wrong decision was made at the time where it seems so good and nothing should goes wrong, but it does.   

Sir, it is greatly appreciated if you could provide the answers to the questions you asked me on the earlier mail. I think this is what I'm searching for the past 4 years. Thank you so much. Finally, I think I have found the correct person. 

Answer: 

1) BaZi consists of 3 components. The natal chart (8 characters) are Early Heaven (born with it). This is fixed. It is liked a make up of a car. If the natal chart is excellent it is almost liked, let say BMW otherwise it is just a normal car. The other components, Luck Cycle and Annual Pillars are dynamic, Later Heaven, change through 10 years period or annually. This components are liked the roads or highways the car travels. If the Luck Cycle or Annual Pillars are excellent, it means to say the roads are so good that given a lousy car it still moves faster then a BMW traveling on a pot holed roads. So, change is a relative concept.


2) Metaphysics do not change bad to good but teaches one to live through both good and bad. For example, it is very easy to consult a BaZi base on favorable stars but difficult to tell people to use their negative treats to their benefits. Example, a wife has a loggerhead with her mother in-law and apparently her wealth element is negative. How is she going to use her wealth to her advantage?


3) This is what is commonly perceived, but it is not the case. Nature has given us 5 elements, why do we opt to only use the better one?


4) A textbook answer is not always the answer. Life is complicated and remember there are many ways leading to Rome. The correct understanding is to navigate your life journey through a road of less resistance and not in loggerhead with resistance.

On a side note, your chart is a very interesting one as at the moment I reserved to comment until such time I have the mood to discuss it over in YiBazi. In fact you have been meeting all the correct FengShui masters in the contrary of your believes. If it is without them, how would you seek further in search of the Truth. They appeared in your life at a time when your destiny crosses path with them. So it is affinity, so is the same of me replying your email in spike of my busy schedule.

Nature Of QuanYuan's Workshop

Question: Greetings, and thank you for taking time to reading this, I being looking and browsing through your web and blog. But I still have question on my mind regarding your course. I can't find any detail information about your course, so I would like to know more about what the teacher is teaching. I read that the teacher is teaching BaZi,

1. Is the course also teaching FengShui with BaZi?

2. How long the courses take?

3. And I wonder is this course conduct in separate modules or just one?

4. Is the course fee shown in the blog for just 1 module or all if the class has separated levels.

Answer: Thanks for inquiring and please note our response: -

1. As at to date, QuanYuan offers BaZi Preparatory Workshop, as an entry level to our curriculum. In other words and unlike other academies, everyone who wishes to study with QuanYuan, would first have to joint our BaZi Preparatory Workshop. Thereafter, students are encouraged to practice with their new found skills and duly follow up with correspondence with the teacher. Later, these students are invited to join in for repeated workshops, to polish their skill further. QuanYuan always believed in the principle of 80% of students are able to gain 20% of knowledge in the first time. With practice, 20% of students are able to gain 80% of knowledge in subsequent workshops. It is these 20% of students that we are able to coach for future workshops such as FengShui.

Therefore, BaZi is the entry level to FengShui. As there is already so much depth to cover for BaZi, the teacher may only touches briefly on the application of BaZi to FengShui during the last day of case study.

2. QuanYuan’s courses are in the format of workshop, meaning we would spend one or two days to deliver the key theories and spend the rest of the days to discuss on real life applications. The final days will be the platform for students to put forth their questions and are duly answered by the respective teacher.

In the case of BaZi, the workshop will stretch for 3 full days, 2 days for fundamental theories and the last day for case study. As you can read from the student’s response, it is always the last day that the teacher would show exactly how the chart is being peeled off layer by layer to reveal the underlying truth which sometimes, may be horrifying in nature. This is the forte of our workshop.

In the case of FengShui, the workshop would be conducted in 2 parts. Part 1 would stress on diagnostic approach while part 2 would stress on prescriptive approach. Each part would stretch for 4 days at a minimum. Again, 2 days for theory and the last 2 days for practical.

3. So far we only have BaZi preparatory workshop. We are planning to have our maiden FengShui preparatory workshop at the end of the year. However, it will only be offered to our invited students. Unlike other academies, our workshops are not made in modules but in session accordance to the progress of our students. We are creating layers of committed practitioners to assist us in our group practice not ad-hoc learners.

4. The course fee shown is for the said workshop only. Students are invited to joint in for subsequent repeated workshops for a nominal fee. Any subsequent workshops will be charged differently as the case may be.

Question on Aunthenticity

Question: There was a big HOO HA in the Indonesian forum regarding FengShui authenticity. What would you think about it?

Answer: This is one field that is subjected to abuse without any standard to benchmark. We can understand as to why our Indonesia counterparts felt so. This is again, not an easy digestible answer. The term authenticity comes from 2 forms. First, being a disciple of a reputable lineage. Second, having an official diploma from a reputable academy. Both have got its unresolved and contagious issues, worth contemplating, such as what is a reputable lineage? The meaning to lineage is prescribed in Yifengshui and we shall not elaborate more in here.

Being a disciple of a reputable lineage, one has to be accepted into the purview of a certain Tang, hall or chamber of practice, through its legitimate means liked oath, and ceremony of tea, fee and so forth. However, discipleship has twofold. One form of discipleship is called outdoor and the other being indoor. The term indoor means one has to slave oneself through many years of voluntary labor to serve the master in order to gain his trust. Ultimately, is treating the master as his own father. The other way is to marry into the master’s family, which is easier. Technically speaking, discipleship of this sort is very rare. Whereas outdoor discipleship is through the graces of the master accepting disciples among his clienteles, fans, friends and so forth for the needs of propagations. The very question remains, is the knowledge being authentic learning from the lineage holder, indoor disciples or simply any outdoor disciples would do?  Authenticity becomes a very vague term.

The modern “fast food” scenario is CTC (Cut the craps). Lineage holder has been given many fanciful meanings and interpretations, example inheriting a book autographed by the author, insignia in the forms of a robe, some mistakenly thought to be under garment, certificates and the sorts. These are the “tools” to establish academies which later joint forces to establish guilds which collectively dish out titles liked grandmasters and masters to elite members who can afford their annual subscriptions. Learning has been given a dash of Western approach with certificates of attendance and diplomas and students who has gone through the system, afford to pay a ransom price, must adorn the graduation gown in line with universities liked Oxbridge. Some academy practices to the extent of adorning emperor’s robe to add in some dash of the Orientals. The question remains, is obtaining these certificates and diplomas measurable to being authentic?

This is what I would think about it.