TRADITION · branch of Daoísmo
Feng-shui
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El arte se nombra por los dos elementos que le dan título: «Feng (wind) and Shui (water) make up feng-shui» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 19». El volumen que lo expone desde dentro declara que usa ese nombre y no el que le puso la traducción europea: «'Feng-shui' has been used in preference to 'geomancy' to describe this ancient Chinese art throughout this book» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 13». Y consigna que el nombre coloquial no es el de las fuentes: «Although feng-shui (wind and water) is the most often found and most colloquial Chinese name for the theory and practice of siting attuned to the elements, the name which is most consistently used in classical Chinese sources is ti Ii ('land patterns' or in modem times 'geography')» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 13», junto a un tercero que tiene por más antiguo: «A third and perhaps older term is kan-yu, which literally means 'cover and support', or even 'cover and chariot', referring to the heaven and the earth. It encompasses the old resonance theories of traditional Taoist philosophy which held that actions on earth affect the heavens and movements in the heavens act upon the surface of the earth» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 13».
La declaración de asunto abre la Introducción del manual: «The ancient Chinese art of feng-shui or geomancy lies behind the whole pattern of the Chinese landscape» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 15». De ese nombre de las fuentes saca el volumen que la práctica no se tenga por superstición aparte: «This emphasizes the fact that the Chinese saw feng-shui not so much as a superstitious branch by itself of rural practices but an integral part of the study of the land itself and the patterns on it both natural and man-made» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 13». Y la definición nominal del arte la da al abrir el capítulo primero: «The art of living in harmony with theffind, and deriving the greatest benefit, peace and prosperity from being in the right place at the right time is called feng-shui» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 19».
Lo que el arte dice manejar es el ch'i: «Ch'i flows through the earth like an underground stream which varies its course according to changes made by nature or man to the surface ,of the earth, although the underground streams which can be observed during caving expeditions are not the same as ch'i» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 15», de donde sale su definición operativa: «Consequently the art of feng-shui consists in trapping and pooling beneficial ch'i or deflecting malefic ch'i from the site chosen» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 16». Al que lo ejerce lo nombra por el dragón: «The feng-shui expert is therefore commonly referred to as a lung kia or 'dragon man', as he traces or 'rides' these veins of ch'i from their source high in the mountains» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 16».
La filiación con el daoísmo la declara el manual desde dentro, y es el pasaje en que descansa `rama_de: daoismo`: «Although the system of feng-shui is intrinsically linked to traditional Chinese Taoist philosophy, the practical tenets are universal» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 15». El mismo volumen sitúa el fondo religioso del arte en la religión popular de tiempos preconfucianos o taoístas: «Popular Chinese religion, based on the pre-Confucian or Taoist times, centred around ancestor worship and a veneration of various spirits of the place not unlike early Greek beliefs» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 18».
El arte se reparte en dos escuelas: «Superimposed on this classification are the two main schools of thought in feng-shui, the Form School and the Compass School. The former and the older of the two is concerned» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 23», y de la segunda dice: «The Compass School, however, is concerned with a time axis and a complex set of relationships between 'sensitive' directions as indicated by an elaborate many» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 23». Su historia la cuenta por patriarcas y dinastías: «Yang Yiin-Sung (or Shuh-Meu as he is sometimes called, c. AD 840-c. 888) was an Imperial feng-shui master or hsiensheng to the Emperor Hi-Tsung from 874-888 and a native of Kwangsi province, who spent most of his life in Kiangsi» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 24», y «Not until the rise of the Sung dynasty (AD 960) were all the elements of feng-shui gathered into one system, built firmly on a philosophical basis and developed methodically, so as to combine every form of influence which heaven may be said to exercise on earth and which both heaven and earth were supposed to have on human affairs» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 25». De su vertiente funeraria dice: «Although the ancients in establishing their cities and erecting their buildings always selected sites [by feng-shui], the art of selecting burial sites originated with the Tsang shu ('Burial Book') in 20 parts, written by Kuo P'o of the Chin dynasty» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 26», y de su raíz doctrinal, por boca de Wang Wei: «The theories of the geomancers [sic] have their sources in the ancient Yin-Yang school» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 26». Las dos escuelas dejan de correr separadas: «By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the two schools were no longer separate and distinct. Feng-shui men practised both methods of siting in both Fukien and Kiangsi, according to De Groot, but they maintained that there was still a clear demarcation between the two styles» «Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982) · p. 24».
Un segundo volumen del mismo autor la trata desde fuera y sin adscribirse a ella. Dice para qué sirve: «In the past it was of the greatest importance to site churches, temples and megalithic standing stones on a ‘location of power’. In imperial China (and increasingly again in our own times) the practice of feng shui has been used to find the hsueh, or dragon point, to provide maximum energy to important buildings, especially palaces, temples and tombs.» «Skinner — Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code (2006) · p. 15». Repite la negativa del nombre, ahora con responsable y fecha: «Geomancy is, strictly speaking, a system of divination by dots or sand marking, resulting in 16 binary figures. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Chinese practice of feng shui. Despite this, around 1870 the Reverend Yates, an English missionary, struggling to find an equivalent word for the Chinese characters feng shui, seized upon ‘geomancy’ because his dictionary happened vaguely to mention ‘earth’ and ‘divination’. He did not pause to think that the word actually referred to a completely unrelated and already existing European practice. As a result, the word stuck as a translation of feng shui.» «Skinner — Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code (2006) · p. 24». Niega la equiparación con las líneas ley: «Some commentators believe that leys involve similar energies to those of the mei lung, or dragon veins, of classical Chinese feng shui. This cannot be true, because dragon veins pass deep within the Earth and are curved by definition: the ch7 energy that travels through the dragon veins must never travel in straight lines but must be nurtured and accumulated by using circuitous paths. Moreover, none of the typical feng shui configurations of either water or mountain are found at or near ley termini.» «Skinner — Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code (2006) · p. 103». Y propone una correspondencia con Stonehenge: «If you compare Stonehenge’s layout with the rules of the Chinese practice of feng shui, you will see that it has entrances rather like the gates of feng shui. These are usually listed as northeast, the Gate of Ghosts or ancestors, northwest, the Gate of Heaven, southwest, the Gate of Man and southeast, the Gate of Earth. These are “located at each of the intercardinal points. In the context of Stonehenge, the Avenue is the main entrance, and it coincides with the Gate of Ghosts.» «Skinner — Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code (2006) · p. 115».
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how each work defines it, with its passageEl Libro Tibetano de los Muertos (tr. Gyurme Dorje, 2005)
Crowhurst — Stellas Daemonum (2020)
Drury y Skinner — The Search for Abraxas (1972)
Hauck — The Emerald Tablet (1999)
Skinner — The Living Earth Manual of Feng-Shui (1982)
Skinner & Rankine — The Goetia of Dr Rudd
Skinner — Sacred Geometry: Deciphering the Code (2006)
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55 entries«'Geomancy' is really a misnomer for the Chinese practice of /eng-shui, as the word more properly relates to an Arab form of divination which spread north into Europe and south into Africa at the end of the first millennium» — Skinner abre negando el nombre con que se tradujo la práctica: *geomancy* nombra en rigor una adivinación árabe que se difundió al norte de Europa y al sur de África hacia el fin del primer milenio, no el feng-shui chino
«The word 'geomancy' was, however, adopted by writers of the midnineteenth century (c. 1870) to translhtr5» — y data hacia 1870 la adopción del término por los escritores decimonónicos para traducir feng-shui; el OCR destroza el final del renglón, que el troceo imprime *to translhtr5.bÅng-shui*, y el guion blando de fin de renglón deja *midnineteenth* donde el impreso lee *mid-nineteenth*
«The present work treats of feng-shui, or telhiric geomancy, and is concerned with the location of dragon lines of energy in the earth and their interaction with man as part of his subtle environment» — la declaración de asunto del propio volumen: geomancia telúrica, es decir la localización de las líneas de energía del dragón en la tierra y su interacción con el hombre como parte de su ambiente sutil
«'Feng-shui' has been used in preference to 'geomancy' to describe this ancient Chinese art throughout this book» — y el criterio de nombres que el libro se impone
«Although feng-shui (wind and water) is the most often found and most colloquial Chinese name for the theory and practice of siting attuned to the elements, the name which is most consistently used in classical Chinese sources is ti Ii ('land patterns' or in modem times 'geography')» — señala que el nombre coloquial no es el de las fuentes: en el chino clásico lo más constante es *ti li*, patrones de la tierra, que hoy quiere decir geografía; el troceo imprime *modem*
«This emphasizes the fact that the Chinese saw feng-shui not so much as a superstitious branch by itself of rural practices but an integral part of the study of the land itself and the patterns on it both natural and man-made» — y lee ese nombre como prueba de que los chinos no tomaban el feng-shui por una superstición rural aparte, sino por parte del estudio de la tierra y de los patrones sobre ella
«A third and perhaps older term is kan-yu, which literally means 'cover and support', or even 'cover and chariot', referring to the heaven and the earth. It encompasses the old resonance theories of traditional Taoist philosophy which held that actions on earth affect the heavens and movements in the heavens act upon the surface of the earth» — el tercer nombre, *kan-yu*, que Skinner traduce *cubierta y soporte* o *cubierta y carro* por el cielo y la tierra, y en el que ve las viejas teorías de resonancia de la filosofía taoísta: lo que se hace en la tierra afecta a los cielos y los movimientos del cielo actúan sobre la superficie terrestre
«Although in the great Chinese encyclopedias feng-shui is listed under the kan-yii chapter, it is likely that originally the two practices were quite distinct» — aunque las grandes enciclopedias chinas listan el feng-shui bajo el capítulo kan-yii, Skinner sostiene que en origen las dos prácticas eran distintas
«Kan"'"yii was possibly the original designation of the Compass School, whilst feng-shui was probably the early designation of the Form School. It is only in later years that the distinction has become somewhat muddied, although a distinction still survives in Taiwan» — y propone el reparto: kan-yii habría nombrado a la Escuela de la Brújula y feng-shui a la de las Formas, distinción que dice enturbiada después y sobreviviente en Taiwán; el troceo imprime el término *Kan"'"yii*
«Wheatley in his Pivot of the Four Quarters considered feng-shui to be an Castro-biological mode of thought' ,reflecting the Chinese idea that life (in all its forms) interacts with heaven and is modified and conditioned by the cycle of the five elements» — Skinner reporta la fórmula de Paul Wheatley —modo de pensamiento astrobiológico— y la explica por la idea china de que la vida interactúa con el cielo y la condiciona el ciclo de los cinco elementos; el troceo imprime *Castro-biological* con la apertura de comilla corrompida
«Steven J. Bennett in his article 'Patterns of the sky and the earth: the Chinese science of applied cosmology' in Chinese Science (1978, 3:1-26) prefers to call feng-shui 'astro-ecology', which sounds rather modern and perhaps doesn't cover all of the aspects of feng-shui» — y la de Steven J. Bennett, *astro-ecology*, que objeta por sonar moderna y por no cubrir todos los aspectos del feng-shui
«Bennett also likes to refer to it as siting theory, which gives it a rather geographical flavour» — del mismo Bennett recoge *siting theory*, a la que atribuye sabor geográfico
«The ancient Chinese art of feng-shui or geomancy lies behind the whole pattern of the Chinese landscape» — la tesis con que abre la Introducción: el paisaje chino entero está pautado por este arte
«It is an attitude to the life in the land that has enabled China to feed one of the densest populations in the world without doing great violence to the earth» — y lo que Skinner le atribuye como resultado: una actitud ante la vida de la tierra que permitió alimentar a una de las poblaciones más densas del mundo sin gran violencia sobre ella
«Although China is a predominantly agricultural country, the Chinese art of living within the rhythms of the land and the seasons is just as applicable to life in the Western world» — sostiene que el arte de vivir dentro de los ritmos de la tierra y de las estaciones vale igual para la vida occidental
«Although the system of feng-shui is intrinsically linked to traditional Chinese Taoist philosophy, the practical tenets are universal» — aquí adscribe el sistema, desde dentro, a la filosofía taoísta tradicional china, y a la vez declara universales sus principios prácticos: es el pasaje que liga el feng-shui al daoísmo
«Just as yoga cultivates the life-force in man in both the East and the West, so feng-shui can cultivate the life-force or ch'i in the earth as easily in the West» — el símil con que lo justifica: como el yoga cultiva la fuerza vital del hombre en Oriente y en Occidente, el feng-shui cultiva el ch'i de la tierra en cualquier parte
«Ch'i flows through the earth like an underground stream which varies its course according to changes made by nature or man to the surface ,of the earth, although the underground streams which can be observed during caving expeditions are not the same as ch'i» — define el ch'i como corriente subterránea que cambia de curso según lo que la naturaleza o el hombre hagan a la superficie, y acota de inmediato que los ríos subterráneos de una gruta no son ch'i
«A parallel can be drawn with the flow of ch'i through the acupuncture meridians of the body. These meridians are not the same as the blood vessels which can be dissected by the surgeon's knife, but convey life energy through their own specific locatable channels» — el paralelo con los meridianos de la acupuntura, que tampoco son los vasos sanguíneos que disecciona el cirujano y que sin embargo conducen energía vital por canales propios y localizables
«To complete the parallel, the practitioners of feng-shui manipulate the surface of the body of the earth to influence the flow of ch'i along its hidden veins or dragon lines» — y el cierre del paralelo: el practicante de feng-shui manipula la superficie del cuerpo de la tierra para influir en el flujo del ch'i por sus venas ocultas o líneas de dragón
«Consequently the art of feng-shui consists in trapping and pooling beneficial ch'i or deflecting malefic ch'i from the site chosen» — la definición operativa del arte: atrapar y embalsar el ch'i benéfico o desviar el maléfico del sitio elegido
«The parallel between the body and the earth has not been chosen as an arbitrary metaphor but reflects the Chinese view of the wholeness of the universe not divided rigidly into the categories of Western theology (matter and spirit) or science (living and dead). Instead the 'dragon man' looks upon existence as a continuum, much as C. G. lung saw the universe: the external macrocosmic world being reflected in the internal microcosmic world» — declara que el paralelo cuerpo-tierra no es metáfora arbitraria sino la visión china de un universo entero, no repartido en las categorías occidentales de materia y espíritu ni de vivo y muerto; y compara ese continuo con el universo de C. G. Jung, cuyo apellido el troceo imprime *lung*
«The feng-shui expert is therefore commonly referred to as a lung kia or 'dragon man', as he traces or 'rides' these veins of ch'i from their source high in the mountains» — de ahí el nombre del oficio: *lung kia*, hombre dragón, que rastrea o cabalga esas venas desde su nacimiento alto en las montañas; el tramo se corta en el límite de chunk y la frase sigue —morada mítica de los dragones— hasta las laderas bajas donde afectan para bien o para mal a la gente que vive sobre ellas o cerca
«To be in the right place facing the right direction doing the right thing at the right time is, then, a cross between being practically efficient and being ritually correct. It is being in tune with the universe» — el epígrafe con que abre el capítulo primero, que el volumen atribuye a Stephan Feuchtwang: estar en el lugar correcto mirando en la dirección correcta a la hora correcta es un cruce entre eficacia práctica y corrección ritual, y equivale a estar a tono con el universo
«Many look for their Shangri-la on the surface of the earth, others voyage within for illumination. The ancient Chinese art of feng-shui combines the axes of each quest, declaring that what you make of your location and environment on the face of the earth also affects your interior peace» — Skinner presenta el arte como cruce de las dos búsquedas —la del lugar y la de la iluminación interior—: lo que uno hace con su ubicación afecta también su paz interior
«The formula relies upon locating and harnessing the 'dragon lines' of energy which pass through the veins of the earth, affecting the quality of life upon its surface in varying degrees» — y enuncia la fórmula: localizar y aprovechar las líneas de dragón que pasan por las venas de la tierra y que afectan en grados distintos la calidad de la vida en su superficie
«Popular Chinese religion, based on the pre-Confucian or Taoist times, centred around ancestor worship and a veneration of various spirits of the place not unlike early Greek beliefs» — sitúa el fondo religioso del feng-shui en la religión popular china de tiempos preconfucianos o taoístas, centrada en el culto a los ancestros y en la veneración de espíritus del lugar, y la compara con las creencias griegas tempranas
«The art of living in harmony with theffind, and deriving the greatest benefit, peace and prosperity from being in the right place at the right time is called feng-shui» — la definición nominal del arte, en una frase donde el OCR funde dos palabras y deja *theffind* por *the wind*
«During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Europeans in China came up against the phenomena of fengshui» — data en los siglos XIX y XX el choque de los europeos en China con el feng-shui; el troceo funde el término al final del renglón y deja *fengshui*
«The Chinese regard for the life of the land manifesting in feng-shui, forced missionaries to remove the tops of their churches and railway builders to change the course of their railways, in accordance with this Chinese interpretation of the balance of the hidden forces in the landscape» — y reporta el efecto práctico de ese choque: misioneros obligados a quitar los remates de sus iglesias y constructores de ferrocarril a desviar las vías
«Obviously this creates some overlap between astronomy, geography (ti li) and feng-shui, inevitable in a system which sees mutual interaction as an essential feature of a living universe» — señala el solapamiento que eso produce entre astronomía, geografía (ti li) y feng-shui, inevitable en un sistema que toma la interacción mutua por rasgo esencial de un universo vivo
«Superimposed on this classification are the two main schools of thought in feng-shui, the Form School and the Compass School. The former and the older of the two is concerned» — sobre esa clasificación coloca las dos escuelas principales, la de las Formas y la de la Brújula; el tramo se corta en el cambio de plana y sigue diciendo que la primera, la más antigua, atiende a la forma visible del paisaje alrededor del sitio, sea casa o tumba
«The Compass School, however, is concerned with a time axis and a complex set of relationships between 'sensitive' directions as indicated by an elaborate many» — y describe la otra por su eje temporal y por un juego complejo de relaciones entre direcciones sensibles que marca un compás de muchos anillos; el guion de corte parte la palabra al fin del renglón
«I Form and Configuration School (hsing shih), also known as the Shapes School, Kanchow method and Kiangsi» — los nombres con que corre la Escuela de las Formas: hsing shih, Escuela de las Figuras, método Kanchow y método Kiangsi, este último por su origen geográfico
«Feng (wind) and Shui (water) make up feng-shui» — la etimología que el libro da del término, viento y agua; el tramo se corta al cambiar de plana, donde sigue la pronunciación que propone, algo parecido a *foong-shway*
«2 Directions and Positions School (jang wei) or Compass School, also referred to as the Fukien School (its probable province of origin and home of Wang Chih, one of its early major proponents), the 'Method of Man', or 'Houses and Dwellings Method'. In Chinese it is often designated the tsung miao chih fa (Ancestral Hall) method, the Ii ch'i chia (according to Shen Hao), or the Min School. It flourished in Fukien and Chekiang provinces, and in Taiwan and Hong Kong where it is referred to as the ch'i pattern school (Ji ch',) or analytical approach» — el inventario de nombres de la Escuela de la Brújula: jang wei, Escuela de Fukien por su provincia probable y por Wang Chih, Método del Hombre, Método de Casas y Moradas, tsung miao chih fa, li ch'i chia según Shen Hao, Escuela Min y —en Taiwán y Hong Kong— escuela del patrón del ch'i o enfoque analítico
«By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the two schools were no longer separate and distinct. Feng-shui men practised both methods of siting in both Fukien and Kiangsi, according to De Groot, but they maintained that there was still a clear demarcation between the two styles» — data a fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX la fusión de las dos escuelas y se apoya en De Groot para decir que los practicantes usaban ambos métodos en Fukien y en Kiangsi sosteniendo a la vez que la demarcación seguía clara
«Yang Yiin-Sung (or Shuh-Meu as he is sometimes called, c. AD 840-c. 888) was an Imperial feng-shui master or hsiensheng to the Emperor Hi-Tsung from 874-888 and a native of Kwangsi province, who spent most of his life in Kiangsi» — la ficha que da del patriarca de la Escuela de las Formas: maestro imperial de feng-shui o hsien-sheng del emperador Hi-Tsung entre 874 y 888, nativo de Kwangsi y afincado casi toda su vida en Kiangsi; el guion de corte de fin de renglón deja *hsiensheng* donde el impreso lee *hsien-sheng*
«The Form School was the first to be formally established and is the most naturally based, taking into account the configuration of the surrounding landscape as seen from the site of the building or the grave» — declara a la Escuela de las Formas la primera en establecerse formalmente y la más apoyada en la naturaleza, por atender a la configuración del paisaje vista desde el sitio del edificio o de la tumba
«Not until the rise of the Sung dynasty (AD 960) were all the elements of feng-shui gathered into one system, built firmly on a philosophical basis and developed methodically, so as to combine every form of influence which heaven may be said to exercise on earth and which both heaven and earth were supposed to have on human affairs» — data en la dinastía Sung la reunión de todos los elementos del arte en un sistema de base filosófica, capaz de combinar toda influencia del cielo sobre la tierra y de ambos sobre los asuntos humanos
«Under the influence of the metaphysical speculations. of the Sung dynasty a second school of feng-shui arose which more particularly laid stress upon the kua, the eight trigrams, the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches and the Constellations (more of which later), assigning a place of minor importance to the actual configurations of the earth» — y adjudica a la especulación metafísica Sung el nacimiento de la segunda escuela, que carga el acento en los kua, los ocho trigramas, los Tallos Celestiales, las Ramas Terrestres y las constelaciones, y rebaja a menor la configuración real de la tierra
«The theories of the geomancers [sic] have their sources in the ancient Yin-Yang school» — de la cita de Wang Wei que Skinner traduce: las teorías de los geomantes vienen de la antigua escuela Yin-Yang; el *[sic]* es del propio volumen
«Although the ancients in establishing their cities and erecting their buildings always selected sites [by feng-shui], the art of selecting burial sites originated with the Tsang shu ('Burial Book') in 20 parts, written by Kuo P'o of the Chin dynasty» — y en la misma cita de Wang Wei, la fecha del arte funerario: aunque los antiguos elegían sitio para ciudades y edificios, el arte de escoger tumbas arranca con el Tsang shu o Libro del Entierro, en veinte partes, de Kuo P'o de la dinastía Chin
«The Form School utilizes a greater degree of intuitive insight whilst the Compass School, although more complex in its theory, is more subjective and mechanical in application» — el contraste que el propio Skinner traza entre las dos: la de las Formas pide más intuición y la de la Brújula, más compleja en teoría, resulta más subjetiva y mecánica al aplicarse
«To understand feng-shui it is essential to appreciate ch'i. On a microcosmic level, ch'i is the energy of the body's breath which if concentrated in various parts of the body can enable the practitioner to perform the more amazing feats of the Chinese martial arts schools» — y liga el plano microcósmico: el ch'i es la energía del aliento del cuerpo, que concentrada en ciertas partes permite las proezas de las artes marciales chinas
«The amount of ch'i flowing, and whether it accumulates or is rapidly dispersed at any particular point, is the crux of feng-shui» — y fija ahí el nudo del arte: cuánto ch'i fluye y si en ese punto se acumula o se dispersa deprisa
«old name for feng-shui. a practitioner ofkan-yii. the trigrams of the I Ching. demons» — y las primeras definiciones de esa columna: kan-yii, nombre antiguo del feng-shui; kan-yii chia, su practicante; kua, los trigramas del I Ching; y kuei, demonios; el troceo funde *ofkan-yii* y el tramo se corta antes del folio impreso
«In the past it was of the greatest importance to site churches, temples and megalithic standing stones on a ‘location of power’. In imperial China (and increasingly again in our own times) the practice of feng shui has been used to find the hsueh, or dragon point, to provide maximum energy to important buildings, especially palaces, temples and tombs.» — según Skinner, situar iglesias, templos y megalitos en un sitio de poder fue asunto de la mayor importancia, y en la China imperial —dice que otra vez hoy— el feng shui sirve para hallar el *hsueh* o punto del dragón que da máxima energía a palacios, templos y tumbas
«Geomancy is, strictly speaking, a system of divination by dots or sand marking, resulting in 16 binary figures. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Chinese practice of feng shui. Despite this, around 1870 the Reverend Yates, an English missionary, struggling to find an equivalent word for the Chinese characters feng shui, seized upon ‘geomancy’ because his dictionary happened vaguely to mention ‘earth’ and ‘divination’. He did not pause to think that the word actually referred to a completely unrelated and already existing European practice. As a result, the word stuck as a translation of feng shui.» — la negativa que Skinner ficha con nombre y fecha: la geomancia, adivinación por puntos o marcas en arena que da dieciséis figuras binarias, no tiene nada que ver con el feng shui, y el uso de la palabra viene de que hacia 1870 el reverendo Yates, misionero inglés, echó mano de *geomancy* por lo que su diccionario decía de tierra y adivinación
«Many of the investigators of ley lines and other Iron Age geometrical landscape features (see pages 102-105) started to draw parallels with feng shui and, unfortunately, began to refer to their own ley-line research as ‘geomancy.’» — la consecuencia que Skinner señala de aquella traducción: muchos investigadores de las líneas ley empezaron a trazar paralelos con el feng shui y a llamar geomancia a su propia pesquisa
«This constellation, sometimes called the Plough, is close to the Pole Star and in fact points to it. Named after a ladle, not the fairground ride, the Big Dipper is always visible at night in the Northern Hemisphere. It never actually sets below the horizon, but circles around the Pole Star like the hands of a huge clock. Its rotational path can actually be used to tell the time at night or the season of the year. The ancient Chinese venerated this constellation as a time-keeper and polepointer, as the home of the nine flying stars of classical feng shui and the dark god of the north.» — lo que Skinner reúne sobre el Carro: apunta a la Estrella Polar, no se pone nunca en el hemisferio norte y gira en torno a ella como las manecillas de un reloj enorme, de modo que sirve para saber la hora de la noche o la estación; y los chinos antiguos lo veneraron como guardián del tiempo, morada de las nueve estrellas volantes del feng shui clásico y del dios oscuro del norte; el troceo parte *pole-pointer* en el fin de renglón y span() lo devuelve fundido como *polepointer*
«The Chinese have perhaps come up with the most practical solution, using two separate calendars that work along side each other: a solar calendar to measure agricultural changes, seasons and feng shui; and a lunar calendar to govern magical, ritual and religious concerns.» — la solución que Skinner llama la más práctica: dos calendarios chinos en paralelo, el solar para los cambios agrícolas, las estaciones y el feng shui, y el lunar para lo mágico, lo ritual y lo religioso
«Other cultures, such as the Inca, had amazingly straight roads, which the king’s foot messengers used. The Tibetan lung-gom-pas runners also covered long stretches of road at amazing speed. But these should not be confused with leys, any more than feng shui dragon veins should be confused with leys.» — la doble negativa que Skinner ficha: ni los caminos rectísimos de los incas ni los corredores tibetanos *lung-gom-pa* deben confundirse con las leyes, como tampoco las venas del dragón del feng shui
«Some commentators believe that leys involve similar energies to those of the mei lung, or dragon veins, of classical Chinese feng shui. This cannot be true, because dragon veins pass deep within the Earth and are curved by definition: the ch7 energy that travels through the dragon veins must never travel in straight lines but must be nurtured and accumulated by using circuitous paths. Moreover, none of the typical feng shui configurations of either water or mountain are found at or near ley termini.» — la negativa que Skinner ficha contra la equiparación de ley y feng shui: las venas del dragón pasan hondo dentro de la tierra y son curvas por definición, porque el *chi* no debe viajar nunca en línea recta sino acumularse por caminos sinuosos, y ninguna de las configuraciones típicas de agua o montaña aparece en los términos de las leyes; el troceo imprime *mei lung* y *ch7*
«If you compare Stonehenge’s layout with the rules of the Chinese practice of feng shui, you will see that it has entrances rather like the gates of feng shui. These are usually listed as northeast, the Gate of Ghosts or ancestors, northwest, the Gate of Heaven, southwest, the Gate of Man and southeast, the Gate of Earth. These are “located at each of the intercardinal points. In the context of Stonehenge, the Avenue is the main entrance, and it coincides with the Gate of Ghosts.» — la correspondencia que Skinner propone entre Stonehenge y el feng shui: las cuatro puertas intercardinales —Puerta de los Fantasmas al noreste, del Cielo al noroeste, del Hombre al suroeste y de la Tierra al sureste—, y la Avenida, entrada principal, coincidiendo con la Puerta de los Fantasmas