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It is always a pleasure to read about others mentioning us, here is one written by Sue Holmes.
http://www.firehorsefengshui.co.uk/about/about-feng-shui-consultant-holistic-therapist-sue-holmes/about-my-feng-shui-teacher-howard-cho
Sue is a very hard working lady and she makes extra efforts to come to our Professional Practitioners Courses and Master Classes in Berlin and Krakow because we don’t run them in England. She has studied with many other teachers before she comes to us for some post-graduate studies, she does her consultations under the name Fire Horse Feng Shui (You have guessed it, she is a Fire Horse!) and if you ever need a consultant in England, do get in touch with her:
http://www.firehorsefengshui.co.uk/
I had a wonderful experience being interviewed on Radio 86 by Michael Rossing, who is a philosopher by training, so it gave me an opportunity to talk about Feng Shui from a philosophical point of view.
The interview went on for over an hour next to a beautiful lake just outside of Helsinki and it was clever to have it edited down into two small segments of a few minutes each on different headings, in both English and Finnish (oops, Kristiina just told me it is actually in Swedish, the Finnish and English version will come later) and still managed to keep all the essence of the conversation we had. You can read Michael’s articles and hear the edited segments on our conversation here:
I have to thank Kristiina Mantynen, Chairperson of the Finnish Feng Shui Association, who made this pleasant interlude possible, between teaching Garden Feng Shui and Daoist Talisman last June for the association.
http://fengshui.pp.fi/english.html
Michael Rossing, philosopher and p/t radio interviewer.
As I am looking through these photos, I realized how in Feng Shui we use different means to get ourselves engaged with the environment through observation, I guess that is why Feng Shui is classified in the classics as a part of Xiang-Shu 相術, or the Art of Observation.
In Xing-Shi Pai (Form School), there is the Five Formulae for the Landscape model (Dili Wujuw 地理五訣), namely the Long 龍 (Dragon), Sha 砂 (Sands), Xue 穴 (The FS Spot), Shui 水 (Water) and Xiang 向 (Facing), to give us a guide line to assess the natural environment and there is also the technique of He-Xiang 喝象 or “calling out the image” to get us connect to what we saw with analogy, and with practice we developed an ability to “read” our landscape with “Ganying” 感應 or “mutual resonance”.
These photos showed how we tend to zero onto something we are familiar with and thus made us connected to what we are observing. Out of this vast and beautiful landscape in the south of France, we saw above all, a face in the rock.
The trees stood like children in uniform,
Waving in the warm breeze,
Greeting me like an old friend,
As I cycled to see my love,
Along a path of the fallen Wall.
In early spring the trees are half dressed,
In late summer they wear deep green,
In autumn they turn bright red, and
In winter they are completely naked.
I asked my love,
“If the trees can change with the seasons,
Why can’t we?”
She smiled and whispered,
“We can and we can’t,
For some,
The Wall has not fallen,
So don’t ask, just
Hang it on Cloud Nine”.
Today I cycled past the same spot and the wind and the rain has taken some of the leaves already and autumn is in the air.,
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