Title: How to Change Your Astrological Fate, Fortune and Destiny
1How 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
2Outline 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
35 minute I-Ching (Yi-Jing) Lesson
Yin-Yang
The 64 hexagrams
The 8 Trigrams
Sample Hexagram
4Shao 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 )
5Plum 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
6Explanation
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).
7New 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
8Other 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.
9File 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
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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
10The Chinese Nostradamus
11Shao 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
13Liao 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.)
14Aside ...
- 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.
15Liao 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.
16Master 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
18Sources 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.
19- 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
20Liao 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.
21Liao 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.
22The 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.
23The 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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24One of My Old Practice Schedules
25Seeing 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
26The 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.
27Vasisthas 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
28Alan 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