Feng Shui – Energy Squares – An Overview

In 1984, Sarah Rossbach wrote a book – “Feng Shui – The Chinese Art of Placement”. It was about the work of Lin Yun, a Buddhist priest in Hong Kong. It created a storm, and a following of Lin Yun is the USA.

This knowledge spread from the USA to the UK, Europe, Australia and the rest. Students flocked to the States to learn.

This formula was a simple 9 grid Lo Shu square with each square having different characteristics. Three particular squares were positioned to the front of the property. This method was known as the triple gate formula. This was the beginning of “Contemporary Western Feng Shui”.

Seeing the spread of “Contemporary Western Feng Shui”, Lillian Too in Malaysia in the mid-1990s started to write books on what is now termed “Classical Chinese Feng Shui”. This includes Formulae like Life Aspirations, Eight Mansions and Flying Star.

This was the start of her Feng Shui career where she wrote the book “Complete Illustrated Guide to Feng Shui” which sold more than 7 million copies worldwide.

The Life Aspirations Formula is based on the Lo Shu square, and the square have the properties defined in the BaGua.

Many from the “Contemporary Western Feng Shui” community has argued it is a derivative of Lin Yun’s Triple Gate Formula.

My point is – which came first

• The theory of the Lo Shu and the BaGua – These are ancient Chinese teachings described in ancient documents.
• Lin Yun and the Triple Gate Formula – published in a book in 1984.