木、火、土、金、水 ＝ 五行 Kanji for the Five Elements

Somebody has been searching my site for the Kanji above. I doubt that they found anything, but it proves to me that I’m not far off, because this has also been on my mind recently. These are great as a Google search term. Check out the great graphics that it pulls up:

Google image search of 木、火、土、金、水 I begin with Wood, please, because it governs the East, where the sun rises. I’m sure that those who call ideographs “Kanji” will have no problem with this convention. The Chinese? Well, I think I won’t comment on the current Chinese confusion with respect to their own traditional wisdom. I regard this as basic survival knowledge on the EW cultural interface, and I think my own graphic is not bad:

Once long ago, on a blog now dead, I made this graphic in the process of starting to decrypt the Luoban, or Chinese geomancer’s compass. My sangha deserted my blog. They’re SO progressive, you know. “We’ll pretend he never wrote it, and then he will stop, OK?” Well, life, and the archetypes thereof, have this incurable habit of going on (and on, and on, and on, … ), and I took it as far as I was capable of, and then made the comment that sometimes you just have to live with this stuff for awhile. And guess what? I feel like I’ve done that. Perhaps it’s time to regress culturally to the Daoist sphere of influence. That’s what bugs them, you know. If I were flaunting some incredibly boring and despotic Confucianist drivel, they would love it. But actually understanding how transformations work? Hey, that’s woo-woo, you know.

I feel like I’ve warned you. My camera is broken, and it will be at least a week before I can get it replaced under the maintenace policy I bought with it. When I get finished with my current admin tasks, I will write about Chinese Feng Shui, Geomancy and Astrology until the new camera shows up. Please review the color graphics in my Bagua Album If you’re Chinese, please memorize every single root on them, with their different meanings and correspondences, if you haven’t already done that. Don’t waste my time by not understanding the basics of your own culture. And don’t whine at me because North is at the top, and the West is at the left. I can do that because I’m Caucasian, and you can understand it because you’re Chinese and you’re good at turning things around.

Namu Amida Butsu
Xing Ping

Civil Unrest in Iran — A Prediction (Revised)

This Iranian protest group in Paris, left, has caught the essence of the archtypal basis of the following prediction, i.e. the Earth element in Chinese pentology. Yellow is the color of the Earth element, particularly in peasant garb on a pretty woman.

This prediction is only partly based on Astrology. What it is based on is part of what the Chinese call “fate-calculation,” which is a mixture of Astrology and numeric cycles, for the same reason that Vedic astrology is such a mixture – the crude celestial positions of the planets does not completely describe their functions as archetypes.

In the Chinese Sixty Year Cycle (hereinafter “CSYC”) which is based on the position in the heavens of the planet Jupiter, last year 2008 was the year of the Earth Rat, the beginning of one of the 12-year sub-cycles of the CSYC which are each founded on one of the Chinese five elements. The Earth cycle beginning with Earth Rat was preceded by a Fire cycle beginning with Fire Rat in 1996 and ending with Fire Pig in 2007 (Fire produces Earth). In the previous CSYC this transition between the Fire sub-cycle and the Earth sub-cycle happened in 1947-1948. The second year in the new Earth sub-cycle, the year of the Earth Ox (1949, 2009), is also an explicitly Earth year, and for the processes considered here, it can be considered the Yin extension of the Yang Earth Rat year.

One of the things that these 12-year sub-cycles govern is the fundamental tone of governmental institutions. In the modern era, because our entire civilization is fire-heavy, things tend to get out of hand in the fire sub-cycle. We saw that with WWII in the previous CSYC, and with the 9-11 catastrophy and Geo. W Bush’s military adventurism secondary to it in this one. The transition to the earth sub-cycle produces the drawing down of this fire extremism to the more ordinary, relevant, and productive processes of normal life on this planet. This transition can come about by processes as peaceful as Ike’s disempowerment of the military-industrial complex circa 1948 and the election of Barak Obama in 2008. But it can also come about by processes as dramatic and violent as the final hegemony of the Communist Revolution in China in 1949, and the current unrest in Iran.

Based on all these archetypal considerations, here is my prediction for the outcome of the current political unrest in Iran: This is exactly the wrong time for the continuation in power of a fire-converted piece of work like Mr. Ahmadinejad, and his terrorized tool, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Both of these figures will lose power. Because it is a yin year, it is very likely that one or both of them will continue as empty figure-heads. But the Iranian peole will strip them of power by this unrest. The type of person who is likely to rise to power in Iran is the pragmatist former President Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani.
The current opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi may or may not succeed. But in any case, the current Iranian political system will be completely revamped to reflect the will of the Iranian people.

Iran, what used to be called Persia, is heir to the oldest literate civilization on earth, older than China. The Iranian people are a race upon which the mantle of God’s grace has long since fallen, resulting in an ancient line of Perfect Spiritual Masters, within several traditions of esotericism. When I see footage of what the Iranian people are doing today, my heart swells with pride for their spiritual power. This is from God, and against God, no one shall finally prevail, not even a corrupt Ayatollah. Allah-hu Akbar!

An enlightened government in Iran is something for which every citizen of this planet with his or her head screwed on must hope and pray. As goes Teheran, so goes the Muslim world. Iran undoubtedly has a greater geopolitical influence than any other country in the region. Greater than Egypt. Greater than Israel. Yea verily, greater than Saudi Arabia.

Namu Amida Butsu
Xing Ping, 20 Jun 09

Some of the best stuff stashed on my photo-site

For those who have been searching this site for hula pictures, they can be found from here: My He Hawai’i Au Album. There’s a right sidebar on this page with links to subfolders in it. Those links beginning with “Halau” (meaning hula school) are where you will find those pictures. Oh,and hey, don’t forgetMelia. That was a certain stage of my career on the Island of O’ahu, and I miss it.

Oh, and hey again, don’t forget Piilani.

IMO, this is the best photo I have ever taken, bar none. This was virtually a spiritual empowerment from one of the reigning masters of Hawaiian hula, to a young unknown dancer who is probably destined to follow in her footsteps. Only in Hawai’i-nei!

I have what is, no doubt and by any criterion, accumulated the best photo collection about Guan Yin Pusa that can be found anywhere on the English-language web: My Kuan Yin Pusa Album. Most of these images were collected from the Chinese-language web. I have signed the minority that I originated, or doctored. The 2nd page of my Kuan Yin Pusa Album contains something else that people have been searching this site for:

The Dark Side of the Bodhisattva – click image to enlarge

When the Lotus Sutra assures us that the Bodhisattva will do ANYTHING to save us, it is the truth. I assure you that the entirety of Central Asian magic, in full regalia, which should not be messed with by the insincere at all, has been attributed, one way or another, to dear Guan Yin. The nuns at Kuan Yin Temple in Honolulu routinely use the power of the lunar nodes themselves, which is something unimaginable that I have never even heard of before. Chinese pentology, of which the first basic is depicted here, is something that should be mastered by anyone who has either East Asian blood or East Asian karma. It allows you to break up a demonic etheric vortex, just for starters, and it allows you to to interpret the traditional cultural environment in the Chinese cultural sphere of influence.

Namu Amida Butsu
Xing Ping

The Dark Side of the Bodhisattva

Dark is good too, no? Sure! Just another way to get focused.

Namu Amida Butsu
Xing Ping

Five Element Analysis in the Flu

My recent bout of the flu was remarkable for its influence on my gut. It ran for a course of five days, and was the usual flu infection that we know and deplore, except that on the second day, it shut down my gut. Nothing would move. I felt like pictures of people that I have seen infected with H5N1: the gut was swollen, but the person lookes all dried out and/or is feverish. I was in severe pain for over two hours, and it felt like my gut was full of black lava sand. Nothing would move in the gut. Chugging water, vegetable oil, and jumping up and down only made me feel that I was less likely to die in the next 3 minutes, but had no other effect. I felt like I had ingested a nerve poison; I was exhausted, my motor nerve responses were way slowed down, I had vertigo, and was incontinent.

I felt like I was dying, and was really not interested in that outcome. Finally a few synapses started to fire, and I realized: this is a boundary problem. Nothing can get into or out of the gut. Therefore, water must be created from something else inside it. [mode=five element theory] Metal generates water. Metal here clearly means electrolytes (a bunch of soluble metal ions). Therefore, drink electolytes.[/mode]. I did that and it worked. Gatorade would have been great, but what I had was lilikoi (Hawaiian passion fruit) juice. That went straight through the gut, bringing the poison out with it. This poison was something that I’ve never seen or smelled before. It was a light grey metallic color, and an evil metallic smell. So what I hypothesize is a viral toxin that entrains electrolytes, shutting down the transport mechanisms across the membranes.

Chinese 5-element analysis is a real description of the way things work in the external world. It is not scientific in the Western sense, but it is real with respect to perception. Even Western scientists admit, in quantum theory, that perception changes objective reality. Furthermore, the perceptual archetypes of 5-element theory are such a fundamental level of all of our perceptual minds that you can still understand your experience on this basis when you’re in a marginal state such as exhaustion, illness, terror, etc.

It helps to memorize these ideographs. These are not just words. They are perceptual schemas that unleash sources of intuitive wisdom that lie buried deep in the human mass mind. All of us are heir to this wisdom, but without the perceptual keys, it cannot be accessed.

Namu Amida Butsu
Xing Ping