FOUR PILLARS OF DESTINY FOR HEALTHY LIFE - Raymond Lo
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YIN AND YANG AND FIVE ELEMENTS
All systems of forecasting have to start with an assumption that everything follows certain basic laws, or Order in this universe. This theme is very much explored in the science of Chaos and Complexity. All matters, no matter how complicated they appear to be, follows a basic pattern or order. This believe is exactly the foundation of Four Pillars of Destiny. In this system, we believe there is a basic Order in the world governing everything. With understanding of such basic Order, we can deduce how events will happen, how people will behave in the course of time. So to understand the subject of Four Pillars of Destiny, we have to start off with the philosophy of Chinese cosmology. The Taichi, or circle of Yin and Yang, is the foundation of everything in the world. The symbol is fashionable and common today. But not many people really appreciate its importance and its deep meaning. To understand Tai Chi, we have to introduce an empty circle, called Mu Chi, which means ultimate emptiness. This Mu Chi comes before the Tai Chi. It means a state before anything happens in the universe, which is totally void and empty. Then the Tai Chi comes next, it represents the state when there are two sides to everything. Such as man and woman, black and white, good and evil, happiness and suffering, up and down, Sun and Moon, left and right…….etc.
Mu Chi and Tai Chi The idea is that the world is totally empty and meaningless before the appreciation that there are two sides to everything. Take for example, suppose we go to a planet where there is no male, no female, no good, no evil, no happiness, no suffering, no up and no down….. such place is totally empty and meaningless. Absolutely nothing will happen in such an empty world. Once there is realization that there are two sides to everything, then the world will come alive with meaning, with man and woman, with happiness and suffering, with good and evil, then
