Study Guide Lesson 11

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LILLIAN TOO’S

MANDALA

For Modern Living

MODULE 11

The Feng Shui

of Your Main Door

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The Feng Shui

The feng shui of your main door is probably the most crucial aspect of your overall feng shui. This is the mouth of the home. It is where good or bad luck chi enters the house.

There are a great many taboos in the practice of feng shui related to the positioning, proportion, dimension and characteristics of the main doors, and it is useful to consider them individually.

1) Opening of the Main Door

Main doors should open inwards into a wide space rather than a cramped narrow corridor. It is also necessary to have an open space on the outside of the main door, known as a bright hall. If there is a foyer and it is too tiny, far better to do away with the foyer.

CURES

1) If the door opens outwards, change the position of the hinges.

2) When the inside foyer space is too small, hang a bright light above the door. Keep the light turned on for at least three hours each day.

3) You can use a mirror to visually enlarge the foyer space, but position it so that it doesn’t directly face the door.

2) The size, material and color of the main door

The main door should never too small or too large in proportion to the whole house, but it must be the grandest looking door in the house. For apartments, use the size and height of the living room as a guide.

A door that is too small is most unfortunate. Good fortune just cannot enter into the home! The door should be at least high enough for the tallest member of the household to walk through without too much difficulty, and it should definitely look proportionate to the room.

A door that is too large for the room will cause the family to lose all their good fortune. This also means ceilings should not be too low. Wealth will be lost and nothing can benefit.

Solid doors are preferable to glass doors. Main doors

should always be solid and made of wood or some other strong, durable material. Main doors must never be made of clear or opaque glass as this means fragility and offers no protection for the home and family.

Your Main Door

of

大门风水

DIRECTION OF THE MAIN DOOR COLOR South Red

North Dark blue or Black East & Southeast Natural Wood Color West & Northwest Ochre or Yellow Southwest & Northeast White

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3) Placement of the main door

Good door placements always open to some space. When the entrance is cramped either inside or outside the door, the feng shui is adversely affected. The main door should never be hit by any configuration, arrangement or structure which blocks the flow of traffic inwards.

Be careful of what lies above the main door. If an upstairs toilet is inadvertently placed above the main door, it makes the entrance feng shui of the home extremely inauspicious. Any exposed overhead beam is most inauspicious facing the main door. Ceiling designs that have sharp corners and edges are not recommended above the entrance foyer.

Do not place another door beside the main door as this would confuse the energy trying to enter your house.

It is always best to place a chandelier inside the main door to welcome the energy; this will also increase yang energy entering the house.

4) Poison arrows from inside and outside the main door

There are many different structures that can harm the main door. To determine if any of the features indicated as harmful to the main door are actually hurting the door, stand at the main door and face out. The following features are harmful to the main door:

a) Triangle Roof Line from opposite neighbour b) Edge of a building

c) Steps leading up or down d) Lamp Post

e) Cemetery f) High Rise Tower

The main door can also be harmed by features inside the house. To determine if you have any such harmful features, stand at the main door looking into the house. The following features are harmful to the main door:

a) Staircase b) Pillar c) Spiral staircase d) Wall mirror e) Wall edge f) Toilet door

g) Main door facing 3 doors in a row h) Main door facing a long corridor i) Main door facing the kitchen door

South Water or Earth Fountain or Crystal North Earth or Wood Crystal or Plant East or southeast Metal or Fire Windchime or Light West or Northwest Fire or Water Light or Fountain Southwest or Northeast Wood or Metal Plant or Windhcime

TO OVERCOME THE POISON ARROW BY USING DESTRUCTIVE

OR EXHAUSTIVE CYCLE OF 5 ELEMENT

POISON ARROW

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5) How to enhance your main door

Displaying a good fortune symbol next to your front door will activate propitious chi energy. You can bury three old coins, tied together with red thread, under the ground just inside the main door. If you cannot bury the coins, place them on the floor and cover them with a rug.

Hang an auspicious painting such as a painting or photograph of a 100 birds near the door to enhance the energy around your main door is happy and auspicious. A hundred birds is particularly excellent as it also symbolizes a hundred opportunities coming your way.

Place a water feature somewhere near the front door directly in front, either outside or inside. It will attract prosperity and income luck.

Place good fortune plants on either side of the main door. This will raise yang energy here and attract good fortune chi into the home.

Display a pair of Fu Dogs flanking the main door to protect against any negative

energy harm to the house.

It is good to place double dragon just inside the door. Dragon is the symbol of bravery, courage, survival, determination, ambition and all good fortune attributes.

Altars that directly face either the main door or door into the living or family room are deemed to be auspicious, and will attract good positive energy. Think about this if you are considering building an altar in the home.

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Multiple Choice Questions:

1) Is good or bad to place Fu Dogs flanking the main door? a. Good

b. Bad

2) What you need to do when the foyer of the main door is too small? a. Do nothing

b. Place a mirror

c. Display a100 birds painting

3) Which of the following is brings bad energy to the main door? a. T-junction facing the door

b. Empty land in front of main door

c. Bright light in the foyer area in front of main door

4) Which one is the best activator for enhancing the main door? a. Fire Sword

b. Wu Lou c. 3 tied coins

5) Which of the following is best for a main door? a. Open to some space

b. Facing a building c. Underneath a toilet

Exercise:

1) Check the direction of your main door.

2) Look around the surrounding of your main door. Are there any poison arrows, blockages, buildings?

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ANSWERS:

Question 1: a Question 2: b Question 3: a Question 4: c Question 5: a