bruce lee's bad fengshui?

[peter J. Farley]

anybody ever hear of a connection between bruce lee's tragic end and bad
fengshui? a friend of mine swears this is true

also a FAQ containing household basics and different theories and schools
is badly needed

pete

[Nabiki]

In article <3kj14l$l...@giga.bga.com>, peter J. Farley <pe...@bga.com> wrote:
>anybody ever hear of a connection between bruce lee's tragic end and bad
>fengshui? a friend of mine swears this is true
>

Yup. The story is that Lee's ba gua was blown off his door during a
typhoon, thus leaving him vulnerable. His name was also a problem:
(from Sarah Rossbach's "Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement,"
page152)

"Even the Hong Kong Tourist Association credits the Chinese name of
Bruce Lee, the late king of Kung Fu movies, with his untimely death
in 1973. At the time of his death, Lee, whose Chinese name was Lee
Shao-lung, "Little Dragon," lived in a Hong Kong suburb called
Kowloon Tong, "Pond of the Nine Dragons." A Tourist Association press
release notes, 'Had he consulted a feng shui master before moving in,
it is likely that he would have been warned against tempting fate. For
in the mythological survival of the fittest, the little dragon must
eventually give way to the combined might of the nine full-grown
creatures who dominate the legendary pond.'
"Reports say Lee knew of the bad feng shui and sought to
deflect it by hanging the octagonal ba-gua mirror outside his
front door. But people say that the mirror was blown off during a
typhoon shortly before the actor's death, leaving him undefended
against the inevitable."

When I got a ba-gua the little introductory sheet inside the package
had the typhoon story too. Rec.martial-arts just had a thread on the
more non-mythological causes of his death, BTW.
--Jessie
"Spring break? What spring break? That was a spring break?"

[Everything Zen]

: anybody ever hear of a connection between bruce lee's tragic end and bad

: fengshui? a friend of mine swears this is true

Watch the movie "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story". They did a great job with
this biopic and fengshui figures prominiently in this movie.
--

[Jeffrey Olson]

Raymond Lo says in his <Feng-shui and Destiny>(pp.100-2) that Bruce Lee's
pillar configuration caused his demise. He equates the Chinese saying "Too much
wealth weakens the health" with the realtionship between wood and earth
represented in Lee's pillars: he was a weak wood person. Thus, the
proverb above is applicable to Lee in that "The wood is weakened by the
multiple earth elements that symbolize wealth. A person with such a
configuration usually finds himself surrounded by wealth but is not able
to enjoy it. His argument becomes much more complex and ultimately argues
that the fire element that Bruce received from his father, for which he
became famous, was doused by water and caused his death.
Jeff Olson
Anthropologist and Urban Designer
Seattle, Washington: The resting place of Mr. Bruce Lee