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2010-03-14 11:59
When you walk into a building, are you able to thought of immediately sense whether it has good fengshui, or not? A good flow of the Qi(气)?
Yes, and so are you. Anytime you walk into any room, you get a feeling about it: whether you feel good about being there, or not so good. So everyone has experienced good fengshui. Anytime they walked into anybody’s home, or even an office, were suddenly they think, “Oh, this is pleasant. I feel good.” You know, maybe their moods are little happier, or maybe they are more relaxed, whatever. It is the positive reaction you get when you are in the mist of good fengshui.
So fengshui is exactly what? A way of ordering buildings, rooms, corridors in your life to keep out evil spirits?
Well, I wouldn’t say to keep out evil spirits. That sounds so superstitious. But I would say, it’s a system of arranging all the objects around you at home or at work. In such a way that they are in harmony and balance with nature, in the way that fengshui teaches us to do. Then, therefore, you are in harmony and balance and so is your life.
Now, this is something that’s very important to Asia. In fact, it’s part of the architecture of buildings. How the staircases go up? Where buildings are lined? But what’s your particular interest in it? You sound as if you have a Scandinavian background. I mean is fengshui something important in Scandinavia?
Well, there is a huge digression coming. My name is Scandinavian. I was name for a Norwegian opera singer. I identify as Irish though. So I don’t know if there is any fengshui in Scandinavia. But their designs are so clean. I was suspected so. Yes, fengshui is huge in Asia. I believe it practiced widely in mainland China. Even though it’s officially frowned upon as superstition, but it’s also huge here in the U.S. In Los Angeles, for instance, some people would no more start working on a building project without a fengshui master than he would without a seismologist to tell him that a building would stay up an earthquake. That’s because these observations that amount to fengshui have developed over thousands of years.
That’s quite true as far as I know.
I know, for instance, that people in San Francisco, if a one-way street sign is put up pointing toward a house, were there are some Chinese living, they can approach the city Traffic Sign Department, and have the sign removed. Not necessarily pointed back in the opposite direction, but have the sign removed, or at least not pointing at their house.
Did you choose your home because of fengshui?
We didn’t choose our home because of fengshui. But, I arranged my office at home according to fengshui. And it’s a real basic example that illustrates a couple of principles. I’m luck enough to have a view out the window at the far end of my office. I was going to put my desk facing out the window, but I wouldn’t have my back to the door, which I don’t feel good about. You know, it’s not just fengshui. It’s also a bad idea to sit with your back to the door. Anybody who comes into your office can surprise you. They surprise you with the things they have to say. You are constantly off guard. So, I turned my desk so that I still have the view at one hand, and I have the door and the rest of the room at the other hand. And then I put the other furniture in the office where it worked around that. I’ve got a better floor plan that I would figure out for myself.
Q11 According to the man being interviewed, what’s the function of fengshui?
Q12 What background does the man have?
Q13 According to the man, there is fengshui in many parts of the world, which of the following is not one of the places that he mentions in the interview?
Q14 Which of the following is a good example of fengshui being huge in the U.S?
Q15 Which of the following of the statements is true about the man being interviewed?
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Yes, and so are you. Anytime you walk into any room, you get a feeling about it: whether you feel good about being there, or not so good. So everyone has experienced good fengshui. Anytime they walked into anybody’s home, or even an office, were suddenly they think, “Oh, this is pleasant. I feel good.” You know, maybe their moods are little happier, or maybe they are more relaxed, whatever. It is the positive reaction you get when you are in the mist of good fengshui.
So fengshui is exactly what? A way of ordering buildings, rooms, corridors in your life to keep out evil spirits?
Well, I wouldn’t say to keep out evil spirits. That sounds so superstitious. But I would say, it’s a system of arranging all the objects around you at home or at work. In such a way that they are in harmony and balance with nature, in the way that fengshui teaches us to do. Then, therefore, you are in harmony and balance and so is your life.
Now, this is something that’s very important to Asia. In fact, it’s part of the architecture of buildings. How the staircases go up? Where buildings are lined? But what’s your particular interest in it? You sound as if you have a Scandinavian background. I mean is fengshui something important in Scandinavia?
Well, there is a huge digression coming. My name is Scandinavian. I was name for a Norwegian opera singer. I identify as Irish though. So I don’t know if there is any fengshui in Scandinavia. But their designs are so clean. I was suspected so. Yes, fengshui is huge in Asia. I believe it practiced widely in mainland China. Even though it’s officially frowned upon as superstition, but it’s also huge here in the U.S. In Los Angeles, for instance, some people would no more start working on a building project without a fengshui master than he would without a seismologist to tell him that a building would stay up an earthquake. That’s because these observations that amount to fengshui have developed over thousands of years.
That’s quite true as far as I know.
I know, for instance, that people in San Francisco, if a one-way street sign is put up pointing toward a house, were there are some Chinese living, they can approach the city Traffic Sign Department, and have the sign removed. Not necessarily pointed back in the opposite direction, but have the sign removed, or at least not pointing at their house.
Did you choose your home because of fengshui?
We didn’t choose our home because of fengshui. But, I arranged my office at home according to fengshui. And it’s a real basic example that illustrates a couple of principles. I’m luck enough to have a view out the window at the far end of my office. I was going to put my desk facing out the window, but I wouldn’t have my back to the door, which I don’t feel good about. You know, it’s not just fengshui. It’s also a bad idea to sit with your back to the door. Anybody who comes into your office can surprise you. They surprise you with the things they have to say. You are constantly off guard. So, I turned my desk so that I still have the view at one hand, and I have the door and the rest of the room at the other hand. And then I put the other furniture in the office where it worked around that. I’ve got a better floor plan that I would figure out for myself.
Q11 According to the man being interviewed, what’s the function of fengshui?
Q12 What background does the man have?
Q13 According to the man, there is fengshui in many parts of the world, which of the following is not one of the places that he mentions in the interview?
Q14 Which of the following is a good example of fengshui being huge in the U.S?
Q15 Which of the following of the statements is true about the man being interviewed?
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