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Taoist Shui Feng: THE AMCIEMT PiOOTS OF THE CHINESE OF PLACEMEHT AftT 1 SUSAN LEVITT \ L iTvo Nj , Taoist Feng Shui Taoist Feng Shui SUSAN LEVITT Destiny Books Rochester, Vermont Dedicated to Professor Takeko Stover, who opened the door to 10,000 things. Destiny Books One Park Street Rochester, Vermont 05767 www.InnerTraditions.com Destiny Books is a division ofInner Traditions International Copyright © 2000 by Susan Levitt All rights reserved. No part ofthis book maybe reproduced or utilized in any form orbyanymeans, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, orbyanyinformation storage and retrieval system, without permis- sion inwriting from the publisher. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Levitt, Susan. Taoist fengshui : the ancient roots ofthe Chinese art ofplacement/Susan Levitt. p. cm. ISBN 0-89281-723-2 (alk. paper) 1. Feng-shui. 2. Taoism. I. Title. BF1779.F4 L46 1999 133.3337—dc21 99-054415 Printed and bound in Canada 98765432 10 1 Text design and layout byVirginia Scott This bookwas typeset in Berkeley Book What Tao? is There was somethingformless andperfect before the universe was horn. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is the motherofthe universe. Eor lack ofa better name, Icall it the Tao. Itflows through all things, inside and outside, and returns to the orgin ofall things. The Tao isgreat. The universe isgreat. Earth isgreat. Each human isgreat. These are thefourgreatpowers. A humanfollows the earth. Earthfollows the universe. The universefollows the Tao. The Taofollows only itself. Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://www.archive.org/details/taoistfengshuiOOIevi Contents Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi ONE History ofthe Dragon 1 TWO The Way ofthe Tao 6 THREE Eight Trigrams 9 FOUR Ba-Gua Map 14 FIVE Five Elements 21 SIX How to Practice Feng Shui 37 SEVEN Feng Shui Solutions 79 EIGHT Reckoning ofFate 102 NINE Lo P'an Compass and I Ching 117 appendix Lunar Calendar from 1900 to 2032 142 Feng Shui Resources 147
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