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Title: How to Change Your Astrological Fate, Fortune and Destiny


1
How to Change Your Astrological Fate, Fortune and
Destiny and Live a Wonderful Life along the Way
  • Bill Bodri
  • www.MeditationExpert.com
  • 718-539-2811 USA

2
Outline of Topics
  • Shao Kang Chieh (Shao Yung)
  • Iron Abacus Numerology - Tieh Pan Shen Shu
  • Zen Master Yungu and Liao Fans Ledger of Merits
    and Demerits for Governing My Mind
  • Benjamin Franklins Art of Virtue Daily Diary
    for Moral Improvement
  • Frank Bettger, Frank McKinney, Dale Carnegie,
    Napoleon Hill and Brian Tracey on Creating the
    Future You Want
  • Goal Setting, Personal Productivity and Time
    Management
  • Zhunti mantra
  • Meditation Practice
  • Charity, Virtue and Merit Making
  • Summary for How to Keep Your Life on Track

3
5 minute I-Ching (Yi-Jing) Lesson
Yin-Yang
The 64 hexagrams
The 8 Trigrams
Sample Hexagram
4
Shao Yung (Shao Kang Chieh)
  • Sung dynasty (1011-1077)
  • One of the 5 great Neo-Confucian philosophers
    Chou Tun-Yi, Chang Tsai, Cheng brothers, and Shao
    Yung united Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism
  • Studied the I-Ching (Yi Jing) under Li Chih Tsai
    in the School of Symbol and Number
  • Study in the hut, seeing the rat, breaking the
    ceramic pillow, finding the potter, visiting the
    old man, reading the book, digging under the bed,
    creating new ways of prediction
  • Plum Blossom Numerology (Kuan Mei Shu)
  • The Book of Great Philosophy (Huang Chi Ching
    Shih Shu )

5
Plum Blossom Numerology
One evening at 4 pm on the 17th day of the 12th
month in the Year of the Dragon, Shao Yang was
looking at the blossoms on a plum tree. He saw
two sparrows fighting in the tree and they fell
to the ground. He predicted that a young neighbor
girl would come to pick the plum blossoms and
when threatened by the gardener, would fall from
the tree and hurt her thigh.
Day Month Year 17 12 5 34 34 - 32
(48 trigrams) 2 Tui Upper trigram
Hour Day Month Year 9 17 12 5
43 43 - 40 (58 trigrams) 3 Li Lower trigram
Hour Day Month Year 9 17 12 5
43 43 - 42 (76 lines) 1 Moving Line
Moving Line
New Fate Hexagram
Hexagram 49, Ko, Revolution
Hexagram 31, Hsien, Influence
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Explanation
Hexagram 49, Ko, Revolution
Moving Line
New Fate Hexagram
Tui young girl, metal, injury
Hexagram 31, Hsien, Influence
Tui
Chien
Sun
Ken
Li fire
Nuclear Hexagram
New Fate Hexagram
Chien old man (gardener), metal Sun thigh,
flower, wood
Tui young girl, metal Ken Earth, which
produces metal, so the girl will benefit in some
way and the injury will not be serious
Inner Trigrams
The predictive hexagram, 49, is made up of the
primary trigrams Tui and Li. Li, the lower
trigram, contains the moving line so it is the
fate and therefore Tui is the subject. The
meaning of hexagram 49 is change and revolution,
conflict and destruction. In I-Ching symbology,
Tui stands for a young girl, injury and metal. Li
stands for fire. Since fire destroys metal, this
means a misfortune will occur. Therefore a young
girl will be injured. A young girl (Tui) will
pick a flower (Sun) and is injured (Tui) in the
thigh (Sun) by an old man (Chien).
7
New Years Eve Prediction
On New Years Eve, Shao Yang and his son heard a
knock on their front door. A neighbor had come to
borrow something. Shao Yang asked his son to
predict what the neighbor wanted to
borrow. Because there was 1 knock on the door,
the son calculated Chien as the upper trigram,
which is the first trigram. Chien stands for
metal and short things. From the time, day, month
and year he calculated the number 5, which is
Sun, for the lower trigram. Sun stands for wood
and something long. The son therefore predicted
the neighbor wanted something with a short metal
head (Chien) and long wooden handle (Sun), so he
said a hoe. Shao Yang said, He wants to
borrow an axe. When you predict, you have to
use your knowledge and consider the time and
situation. Its winter time and its cold with
snow on the ground. How could anyone use a hoe?
Who can use a hoe on New Years Eve? On New
Years Eve its a custom to build a fire in the
house so he must need an axe.
Chieh metal, short Sun wood, long
8
Other Shao Yang Stories
Once Master Shao bought a lantern and calculated
from his purchase that it would be broken at
1200 noon on a certain day, month and year. Just
before it was to be broken, he put it on his desk
in his study to watch it, curious to discover how
it would be broken. It was lunch time and his
wife called him many times but he wouldnt
respond or leave the room because he wanted to
see the fate of the lantern. Finally, his wife
came into the room, saw him absorbed in the
lantern, and broke it in her anger. Shao Yang
jumped up and said, So thats how it was to be
broken. Once 3 scholars were on the way to take
the civil service examinations to become high
officials, and asked Shao to predict whether they
would pass or fail. He predicted they would all
pass and took them for a tour around his
property. When having lunch, Shao Yang constantly
talked about his property, its history, whom he
purchased it from and many other details. He
mentioned them over and over again. After Shao
died, one of his descendants was involved in a
property dispute and the magistrate happened to
be one of the scholars who had passed the exam.
He remembered Shaos conversation and how he
talked about his property over and over again and
now he knew why. He ruled in favor of Shaos
descendants. Other famous stories The flowers
trampled by a horse, historian Oh Yang Fei, the
graverobbers mother, the safety of Szechuan
province, and loss of the Sung dynasty.
9
File Away for Your Reference
  • Shao Yungs Hexagrams
  • 1995 - 4 2006 - 45
  • 1996 - 7 2007 - 35
  • 1997 - 33 2008 - 16
  • 1998 - 31 2009 - 20
  • 1999 - 56 2010 - 8
  • 2000 - 62 2011 - 23
  • 2001 - 53 2012 - 24
  • 2002 - 39 2013 - 27
  • 2003 - 52 2014 - 3
  • 2004 - 15 2015 - 42
  • 2005 - 12 2016 - 51

Planets Changing Signs (Vedic) Uranus Neptune 4/8
/01 AQ 1/31/95 CP 7/22/01 8/3/95 1/26/02 12/3
/95 4/5/09 PI 4/20/08 AQ 10/6/09 7/3/08 1/25/10
2/11/09 6/24/16 AR 10/7/09 9/3/16 12/2/09
Note China - Big political changes coming
2011-2013
10
The Chinese Nostradamus
11
Shao Yangs Principles
  • When there is no motion, no divination is
    possible. When nothing happens, one should not
    divine.
  • Zen master Nan-Chuans predictable travel plans
  • Master Tung-shan and student Yun-chu fed by devas
  • The Great god Indra scatters rice in order to see
    a Master
  • Story of Chinese Zen Master Nan Huai Chin
  • Story of Japanese Zen Master Bankei
  • The path before you should be made broad, for if
    it is made too narrow there will no room even for
    yourself. How much the less can you then help
    others along it? Life springs from the dirtiest
    soil, water too pure harbors no fish.

12
  • FAMILY
  • Your Father was born in the Year of the Dog, your
    Mother was born in the Year of the Tiger
    1/144 chance since 1212 144
  • Your mother is 34 years older than you ???
  • You are born as the 4th son in the family ???
  • The 1st brother was born in the Year of the
    Horse 1/12
  • The 2nd brother was born in the Year of the
    Monkey 1/12
  • The 3rd brother was born in the Year of the Pig
    1/12
  • There are 2 sisters in your family You have
    younger sisters but no older sisters ???
  • The brothers in the family get along with each
    other without disagreement
  • You most resemble your mother in appearance 1/2
  • Your parents at the time of this reading are
    both still living 1/4
  • Your parents at the time of this reading are
    not divorced 1/2
  • Your mom and dad at the time of this reading
    are both healthy 1/4

13
Liao Fans Four Lessons
  • Ming dynasty, Father passes away and Liao Fan
    starts to study medicine
  • Liao Fan meets Mr. Kong, from Yunnan, at
    Compassionate Cloud Temple You are destined to
    be a government official. Next year you will
    attain the rank of First Level Scholar. Why
    arent you studying for the imperial
    examination? Kong states that he is supposed to
    transmit his prediction technique, from the line
    of Shao Yung, to Liao Fan
  • Liao Fan takes him home, and he and his mother
    test Kong on all sorts of predictions, large and
    small, always finding them accurate. So he
    decides to start studying again for the imperial
    examination. Kong says he will pass
  • 14th in the county exam 71st in the regional
    exam 9th in the provincial exam
  • Next year he passes as predicted. Kong calculates
    his life predictions
  • All the years he passes exams and in what place
  • The year he becomes a Civil scholar and the
    year he becomes an Imperial scholar
  • His final appointment as magistrate in Sichuan
    province for 3.5 years, retiring and returning
    home
  • Death at age 53 on August 14 between 100--300
    am, without any male heir
  • Everything transpires as predicted, even the
    prediction of a promotion after 91 dan and 5 dou
    of rice (He was recommended for promotion after
    70 dan but a new boss turned it down. Some years
    later a new Educational Commissioner promotes him
    and the original calculation, which had caused
    him to doubt the validity of Kongs predictions,
    proved 100 correct.)

14
Aside ...
  • Hinduism - even the number of breaths you take is
    numbered
  • Your income, your bank account, stock market
    turning days, etc. can all be calculated even
    lottery numbers
  • This means you have a fixed amount of merit
    unless you are always working to replenish it.
    Many things can be computed because of karma, but
    when you act to do good deeds without a mind of
    clinging, you can create vast amounts of
    incalculable merit ... Because theres no limit
    to your mind at the time of giving, so the
    rewards you will receive in response to the need
    will be just as great. A penny gift given with
    a sincere mind can indeed create a king, and a
    mud pie given to a Buddha can create an Emperor!
  • The key is dont use up your merit foolishly like
    many rich people do! Dont squander your time or
    resources foolishly but always be giving,
    especially to those IN NEED.

15
Liao Fan Starts Believing in a Sealed Fate and
Unchangeable Predestination
  • Liao Fan then believes that life and death,
    promotion and demotion, wealth and poverty all
    come about in due time and are fated. So
    believing in fate, he begins to view everything
    in a detached manner and ceases to seek gain or
    profit.
  • After being selected as an Imperial student, he
    is sent to a university in Beijing for one years
    time. He starts meditating and makes some
    spiritual progress he attains a degree of
    emptiness (where no thoughts arise).
  • Goes to Nanjing for one year, undergoes a Zen
    retreat with Master Yungu meditating for 3-days
    and nights without sleep Master Yungu said The
    reason ordinary people do not become enlightened
    is because they have all sorts of wandering
    thoughts running around in their minds. In 3
    days, I have not observed a single wandering
    thought arise in you. Why is that?
  • Liao Fan replies Mr. Kong has predicted the
    entire outcome of my life. The time of everything
    is predestined -- life, death, wealth, promotion,
    failure. There is no need for me to think about
    or desire anything. Theres no room for other
    results.
  • Master Yungu slaps him with words I thought you
    were someone of special capability. Now I see you
    are just an average ordinary individual.

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Master Yungus Teaching
  • Ordinary people are forever involved with
    wandering thoughts, so naturally their lives are
    bound to chi, the forces of yin and yang, and
    fate. You cannot deny that fate exists, but only
    ordinary people are bound to it. Destiny cannot
    bind those who practice great kindness or great
    wickedness. For those who cultivate great
    kindness, the virtues they accumulate from kind
    acts is so great they can alter their original
    destiny for the better. The merits accrued can
    actually change their destiny from suffering to
    happiness, poverty to prosperity, and short lives
    to longevity. However, when a persons evil deeds
    are great and powerful, they will cancel out the
    fortune and prosperity predetermined in their
    original fate, and their life will be transformed
    from good to bad. Now for 20 years you havent
    tried to change your fortune as predicted even
    one little bit, so how can you be anything other
    than just a regular commonplace individual?

17
  • If you seek within yourself, you will not only
    attain virtue, goodness and righteousness but
    also a good reputation, wealth and high status --
    both internal and external benefits. If you do
    not turn within and examine yourself but merely
    chase after these things from the outside, then
    although you use intelligence to attain them, you
    can only attain at most what fate had entitled
    you to. You will lose both internal and external
    benefits no benefits are derived from blind
    seeking.
  • Mencius said, In seeking one should follow the
    right path. In attaining, one attains what ones
    destiny entitles one to. One who attains one
    million dollars in this life must have cultivated
    the good fortune worthy of that amount in the
    past. Those who have thousands of dollars must
    have cultivated the good fortune worthy of that
    amount. Those who die of starvation were in fact
    meant to die in that manner. If you have
    accumulated enough merits for 100 generations,
    youll have 100 generations of descendants, and
    the same goes for those with only 2-3
    descendants. The fate of people is created by
    their own past thoughts and actions. Retribution
    is simply the fruit of their deeds. Karma

18
Sources of Authority
  • Book of Songs We create our own
    destiny.I-Ching The family that accumulates
    goodness is sure to have superabundant blessings.
    The family that accumulates evil is sure to
    suffer superabundant misfortune. Mencius
    Whatever is sought can be attained.
  • Vedas If we sow goodness we will reap goodness.
    If we sow evil we will reap evil.
  • Buddhism If one wishes for and seeks wealth,
    fame, children and long life than you can attain
    them. (Master Yungu Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
    dont lie and certainly have no reason to deceive
    us.)
  • Bible Ask and it shall be given to you, Seek
    and you shall find You do not have because
    you do not ask.

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  • Master Yungu teaches When trying to change
    ones fate, not a single thought should arise.
    Then one will most easily receive a response.
    Where there is no sign of duality (between wealth
    and poverty, failure and success, life and death,
    thats where we will be able to create and form
    our destiny. When our cultivation reaches a
    certain level then our destiny will change. This
    change will depend upon the accumulation of
    merits, on seeking a response from the heavens.
    free will
  • Master Yungu introduces a Merit-Fault chart, or
    daily ledger for recording ones merits and
    demerits where one bad deed neutralizes one good
    deed. This is Liao Fans Ledger of Merits and
    Demerits which he calls The Book of Governing my
    Mind.
  • Master Yungu teaches Liao Fan to recite the
    Zhunti mantra

20
Liao Fan Decides to Change
  • Liao Fan regrets his past misdeeds and vows to
    reform. He writes down before the Buddha that he
    wishes to pass a higher imperial exam and pledges
    3000 good deeds.
  • Kongs predictions now start to lose their
    accuracy. Liao Fan takes the preliminary
    examination in which he is supposed to place 3rd,
    and takes 1st place. In the Fall he passes the
    real imperial exam, which Kong had not predicted
    he would pass.
  • 10 years later the 3,000 good deeds are
    accumulated and Kong dedicates them at a temple.
    Kong wishes for a son and vows another 3,000 good
    deeds. In 4 years, together with his wife, they
    are accumulated.
  • Kong vows 10,000 good deeds and asks to pass the
    jinshi imperial examination degree. After 3 years
    he passes the exam and becomes the mayor of Baodi
    but has few opportunities to do good deeds as
    before. He dreams that lowering the taxes for the
    county was equivalent to 10,000 good deeds, and
    asks visiting Zen master Huanyu for confirmation.
    Zen master Huanyu says, One kind deed with a
    pure heart can be worth that much. In this case,
    since more than 10,000 people were benefited from
    heavy taxes being lifted, so of course the merit
    is that great.
  • Kong predicted hed die at age 53 without an
    heir, but he lives far past this allotted time,
    begets a son and achieves a high position far
    past what was fated.

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Liao Fans Conclusions
  • Liao Fan concludes Destiny exists but is very
    difficult to be believed by people because it is
    changeable. Destiny is not set but is created
    and determined by ourselves. The power to
    recreate destiny is in yourself. As long as you
    are willing to reform your ill ways, practice
    kind deeds and work to accumulate merit and
    virtues, there is nothing you ask that you will
    not receive. These are your own transactions to
    create good fortune, and no one can take them
    away. How is it possible you wont get to enjoy
    what you create?
  • The I-Ching was written to help people bring
    about good fortune and avoid pain, suffering and
    misery. If everything is predestined, whats the
    point of the I-Ching? The same goes for
    astrology. They were invented to help us change
    our fortunes, otherwise whats the point?
    Therefore know that your fortune can be changed.
  • You can form your fate rather than be bound by
    it. Accumulating merit and meditation, reforming
    your faults and cultivating humility, are the
    keys. One should always reflect upon his own
    thoughts and actions to see if they accord with
    the way of heaven. If one practices such, then
    good fortune will come without being sought. The
    choice of whether to seek good fortune or bring
    about adversity is all up to you.

22
The Formula for Change
  • Recognize your faults and shortcomings (for not
    having a son, living long, or being promoted) and
    vow to reform them. Become aware of your errant
    thoughts and habit energies, and resolve to
    correct them as you would work to cure an
    illness. Use meditation to cultivate the
    awareness that lets you cut off errors and make
    amends. Be fearless not to cling to the past but
    be willing to change Live as though the past
    does not exist and the future starts today. Now!
  • Develop your virtue and perform many good deeds
    and acts of charity. Diligently practice hidden
    kind deeds and work to accumulate many merits and
    virtues. These acts will accumulate the personal
    merit that will create your own good fortune.
    Start today.
  • While waiting, let go of the thought of desiring
    something you are not supposed to have and the
    thought of wishing to receive a reward. Because
    you cannot reach the state of no-thought
    emptiness, practice reciting the Zhunti mantra to
    reach the stage where you do not recite while
    reciting and recite when not reciting. When you
    no longer have wandering thoughts, the mantra
    will be successful and effective. Merit,
    meditation and supplication can evoke a response
    from heaven. Start on this path this very moment.

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The Formula Success, Goals, Achievement,
Accomplishment, A New Life, Change Your Fortune
and Destiny
(1) Correct Ones Faults cultivate awareness and
virtue and (2) Accumulate Merit
  • MERIT (practicing charity, good deeds, virtuous
    ways)
  • MEDITATION (awareness, cultivating emptiness)
  • MANTRA (asking for higher help, silencing the
    mind)
  • METHOD (a plan toward the goal, continuous
    discipline, massive intelligent action toward
    progress)
  • MEASUREMENT (track your progress toward success)

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One of My Old Practice Schedules
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Seeing the Fortune in Your Face or Palm or
whatever ...
  • The Taoist Monk Chiu Chang-Chun
  • The lines of destiny written on your face are
    not true indicators of your destiny. For the true
    face is not your physical face but the face of
    your mind. And it is on the face of your mind
    that true destiny is written. Therefore, when the
    fortune-tellers say that a person has a kind
    disposition or a cruel disposition written on his
    or her face, they are really referring to a minor
    determinant of destiny. The major determinant of
    destiny is in the heart. If a cruel heart is
    tamed, or a kind heart becomes cruel, the
    external features will change. Therefore, the
    facial appearance is merely an indicator of the
    destiny written on the internal face, which is
    your heart. Our destiny is determined by our
    actions. People who were initially destined to
    die a violent death may die peacefully if they
    perform good deeds. Our destiny is in our own
    hands.
  • Story of the boy who saved the ants
  • Moses and Abraham Lincoln

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The Two Brothers and the God of Wealth
  • Only if you practice generosity and giving can
    you become wealthy. Your previous karmic
    causality has made you poor because you did not
    practice generosity, offering and all forms of
    charity. That is why you are poor. So even though
    you ardently beg me day and night for wealth and
    riches, how can you obtain them without this
    karmic past?
  • Take for example a fruit tree. If it is winter
    time, you cannot obtain any fruit, no matter
    whether you served a thousand or a million gods
    to get it. The same principle applies to money.
    Because you previously did not develop any karmic
    causality, but yet you still beg me for wealth
    and riches, you cannot get it either. But when
    the fruit is ripe in season, you will naturally
    obtain it without even asking. Everything is
    obtained because of prior formations to obtain
    something you must perform the appropriate
    actions and set the right formations into motion.
    What can imploring the gods do about it?
  • If you want to receive but you have not given, a
    billion prayers cannot make your dreams come
    true! If a request could be answered by prayer,
    it doesn't mean that a heavenly response comes
    free because acts of grace are still subject to
    causation they are ultimately due to prior acts
    of sufficient merit. When you receive something
    seemingly out of thin air this is simply because
    your good karma has ripened.

27
Vasisthas Yoga
  • What is called fate or divine will is nothing
    other than the action or self-effort of the past.
    The present is infinitely more potent than the
    past. They indeed are fools who are satisfied
    with the fruits of their past effort (which they
    regard as divine will) and do not engage
    themselves in self-effort now.
  • If you see that the present self-effort is
    sometimes thwarted by fate (or divine will), you
    should understand that the present self-effort is
    weak. A weak and dull-witted man sees the hand of
    providence when he is confronted by a strong and
    powerful adversary and succumbs to him.
  • Sometimes it happens that without effort
    someone makes a great gain for example, the
    state elephant chooses (in accordance with an
    ancient practice) a mendicant as the ruler of a
    country whose king suddenly died without leaving
    an heir this is certainly neither an accident
    nor some kind of divine act, but the fruit of the
    mendicants self-effort in the past birth.
  • The wise man should of course know what is
    capable of attainment by self-effort and what is
    not. It is, however, ignorance to attribute all
    this to an outside agency and to say that God
    sends me to heaven or to hell or that an
    outside agency makes me do this or that-- such
    an ignorant person should be shunned. --
    Vasisthas Yoga, SUNY, pp. 26-27

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Alan Leo, an eminent astrologer of the West views
karma and free will thusly The idea seems to be
prevalent that astrology teaches fatalism. Those,
however, who have studied the subject know that
it does not teach absolute fatalism. We are not
utterly bound neither, on the other hand, are we
entirely free. We are limited and restrained by
ignorance. The impressions and samskaras are the
primitive emotions and tendencies that motivate
our lives. They are the impressions carried over
from our past lives in our subconscious minds,
which motivate desires, and in turn produce our
thoughts and actions. Put another way, mans
actions move on the lines that his own karma is
tracing for him. But his will is free to fashion
his karma. It is determinism to the extent that
it is shadowed by the unchangeable laws of karma,
but life which is guided by free will does not
follow any preordained pattern. Determinism thus
appears to function as the law which operates
through changes according to the conditions of
each persons circumstances and environment.
Vedic philosophy has always denied the existence
of a merciless fate which would play with man as
it pleases. On the contrary, the sages have
undeniably declare that man has control over his
actions, but his actions have no control over
their results. -- Chakrapani Ullal
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