The Feng Shui of Abundance

by His Holiness Grandmaster Professor Thomas Lin-Yun Rinpoche

The world's chi--heaven chi, earth chi, human chi--are constantly interacting, regardless of whether "East winds gradually blow to the West," or vice versa. Eastern and Western cultures have always been interchanging at various levels within different cultural contexts. In fact, everything that we have seen from the time of science's flourish and transformation to current developements in advanced technologies, are testimonies to "West winds gradually blowing to the East."

Within the realms of consciousness, spiritualism, esotericism, and folk culture, the East has transmitted a great deal of knowledge to the West. Geomancy [divination through lines and figures] is a case in point. Since the publication of four feng shui masterpieces by the multi-talented feng shui expert and scholar, Sarah Rossbach
(Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement;
Interior Design with Feng Shui;
Living Color: Master Lin Yun's Guide to Feng Shui and the Art of Color; and
Feng Shui Design:
The Art of Creating Harmony for Interiors, Landscape and Architecture), feng shui's immense popularity has risen steadliy over the past twenty years in the Americas and Europe, where feng shui lectures, workshops, publications, new schools of thought, consultations, and certifications emerge like bamboo shoots springing up after the new rain.

Having seen Suzan Hilton's The Feng Shui of Abundance, I feel that it too is a new force in feng shui suddenly come to the fore. Basing her initial observations and analysis on logic and incorporating many transcendental ideas, and through her systematic analysis of the linkage between body and mind of the East and the West, the author shows the reader how to increse wealth and create abundance. She teaches us to combine the essence of eastern and western cultures based on the principle of harmonizing ru-shi--the mundance/rational/reasonable/logical, and chu-shi--the transcendental.

Supplimented with wonderful illustrations, The Feng Shui of Abundance emphasizes the West's practical methods, including minimizing waste and extravagance, knowing when one is spending beyond one's means, stimulating wealth generation with your money, and saving. Using the River of Gold as a metaphor, Ms. Hilton, with her excellent background as a certified public accountant, teaches the reader how to stimulate new creativity by paying attention to body sensations, emotional responses, and rational analysis, and emphasizes the importance and influence of feng shui. Through these methods, the reader will learn how to stabilize unsuccessful and unstable financial situations amidst financial turbulence, and how to navigate to "safety" amid the torrents of financial crisis. As such, even an ordinary person will learn how to overcome difficulties and obstacles in personal and professional lives, and how, as if creating an oasis in the desert, to build up wealth from nothing. Finally the author teaches us how to hold on to financial stability once we have made money and become wealthy and how to solidify the wonderful state of steady wealth accumulation.

The choice of illustrations and the book cover artwork are original and novel. In particular, the rare opportunity to include the exquisite Chinese brush painintgs by the renowned artist, Master I-Hong Chou, adds to this wonderful book. This book offers detailed explications on feng shui, yin yang, the five elements, circulation of chi, energy, the cyclicity of renewal and rebuilding, and includes other topics such as the "Three Entrance Trigrams," the importance of transcendental aspects of omens relating to wealth positions, and how to increase income, reduce expense, and prevent depletions of wealth by decorating the wealth position with color and other objects.

If, after studying this book, you are inspired to thoroughly understand and practice the book's methods of wealth creation and accumulation spanning the East and the West, the mundane and the transcendental, and if, as a result, you rise from poverty to riches, and your wealth grows from nothing and multiplies, you should remember two important points:

First, the "Red Envelope Question." In her book, Suzan raises this issue. Primarily, the transmission of transcendental solutions relating to wealth (and other matters) is considered to be revealing sacred heavenly secrets, which, according to traditional Chinese beliefs, is harmful to the teacher, and offers no particular benefits to the recipients of this knowledge. Therefore, you [the feng shui consultant] must accept red envelopes to acknowledge the "sacredly precious" and "mysterious" natures as well as "utmost cautions" associated with the transmission of these transcendental solutions.

For details regarding red envelopes, please refer to Appendix D, which includes discussions on the topic by Ho Lunn Tu and Dr. Chang Chiu, both of whom are experts and scholars of the Black Sect Tantric Buddhist School of Feng Shui, and the I-Ching as well.

Second, how should you handle your wealth once it has grown from nothing to abundant, from small to big? I once wrote a poem, which I will share with you now:

Regarding Wealth

"Do not associate seeking wealth with greed,
For one could bring relief to the needy
in difficult times if one has money;
If not properly acquired or spent,
Money will do harm instead of good,
like water capsizing a boat rather
than carrying it afloat."

Lin Yun
July 2001

translated by Jonathan W.Y. Chau

Red Envelope Question
Information by Dr. Chui and Senior Disciple Ho Lynn Tu regarding the Red Envelope Tradition

Intrigued and ready to obtain your own copy of The Feng Shui of Abundance?

It's available at all national and most independent bookstores. Available of course, on-line at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Borders.
To take action right now, and have it delivered to you Click here

Copyright 2002-2006 Suzan Hilton. All Rights Reserved.
No part of this site may be quoted or reproduced without prior written permission.