| “FROM WHENCE COMETH WISDOM?” By Debra Blackmon “Go to the mountain. Get focused,” old Native American saying. Knowledge is imparted to those who seek it. And hammered into the heads of those who don’t. “Climb the 8-peaked mountain of yellow earth before noon,” old Feng Shui coding. An admonition to get smart before getting too old. Well, fortunately it’s better late than never and there is a quadrant of your home to help with acquiring wisdom. How to enhance it? Just being smart isn’t the only goal of wisdom. What do you want to be smart at? Find a book on that subject and group it together with some symbolic items of like-mindedness. Ok, that might be a physiology or anatomy textbook and a 3-D, semi-transparent sculpture of the human body. Grouped with some framed documents of higher learning (earned by you of course), bet nobody knows you plan to be a doctor (a wise doctor)! The trick here is to actually read the books. Transference of knowledge by osmosis hasn’t been perfected by our species yet, at least not on this planet. And make it a beautiful display…good design is good Feng Shui and good Feng Shui is good design! Different schools of Feng Shui are going to send you to different quadrants of a house to get smart. Because intention is the single most important aspect of good Feng Shui, start your search in the nearest left hand corner of your bedroom as you enter the door, and intend to be wiser. Or maybe your mountain is in the nearest left hand corner of the house as you enter the front door. Some say wisdom is only acquired by sitting with your face to the East. Or the West. But you have to know your “Best Directions” Chinese horoscope for that. Some schools say that special mountain of wisdom only exists in the Northeast quadrant of a house (use a compass). Others say, “Whence then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? For wisdom shall come into your heart,” and it comes from God/Universe. Most schools agree He/Universe won’t mind if you help the process by making the Wisdom Gua beautiful while studying hard and intending to be wiser. Copyright 2002 Debra Blackmon, Interior Redesign & Feng Shui, “Transforming Mundane Space into Sacred Space”, all rights reserved. Reprinting this Article: You are welcome to reprint, copy or distribute this article provided this copyright notice and a link to http://www.debrablackmon.com is included |
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| Feng Shui January 2003 |
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