At a time when the corporate world wants to move us away from giving thanks to buying material things for “gifts”, a friend sent me this. View it full screen. It is a gift and reminds me of just how precious this existence is. http://bit.ly/sXC0rU
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A film festival and Feng Shui
What could a film festival have to do with Feng Shui? Well, where I live (Ashland, OR) the Festival is about independent films tending to focus heavily on documentaries. Documentaries are usually about things out of balance (think Sicko or Supersize Me!) It gets a bit depressing when you start to realize how very very out of balance this society is, and the possible consequences we are inviting unless correcting steps are taken. Feng Shui is about bringing things into balance. And while I would never pretend that a Feng Shui practitioner could bring many of these larger issues into balance, it just shows me the importance of having one’s home, one’s family, one’s relationship in balance. Without that? Let the craziness take over. Not good! And not necessary. Do what you can, and what you can’t do, engage the best Fen Shui master you know.
Philosophy, mathmatics & Feng Shui
I recently saw a most amazing film, Between the Folds, a movie, I thought, that was about origami or paper folding. Taking a flat single piece of paper and with no cutting, no gluing, nothing but folding, changing it into a three dimensional object. Little did I realize this is only the surface, just as hanging a crystal from the ceiling in Feng Shui is just the surface of a profound subject of study. By the end of the film, one starts to grok that the implications manifested by the simple act of folding paper can affect our knowledge of the way the Universe works, offering profound changes in mathematics education, seriously influencing the development of new drugs. The possibilities are staggering – literally.
And how is this Feng Shui? Quite simply, the deeper I go into Feng Shui and it’s relationship to the natural world, the more profound I find it to be. It’s very much like music by Bach – seemingly pleasant and innocuous at first listening, then “unfolding” into the work of pure genius. The short preview online for the film (use the link above) gives only the most surface glance. Try to get a hold of a copy – you will want to introduce it to your local school system, you will want young people to see it, and you will have a new understanding of wonderfully complex seemingly simple things can be. I’d love to hear your comments.
Wikipedia has a couple of interesting articles on origami which you may also want to check out.
The Ashland Independent Film Festival
OK – so I left Feng Shui for the past 5 days and lived in celluloid land, working as a volunteer for 5 days. Great time. Nothing vey Feng Shui to say about it, but Bill Plymton, the animator, gave a neat presentation and I thought you might want to check it out, so here’s the link. Enjoy