am a fan of Nadia Comaneci 

Thank you both for the wonderful sharing.

Cheers

How about using the term "support" in substituting for resource or seal?

Some people are wondering how come some schools uses Resource instead of Seal / Support/ Empowerment ?
i had a quick chat with a fellow who uses the term Resources.

Apparently it is more for practical application for modern people.
Believed that because Seal happens to be the element that produces the Day Master in the Production cycle of the 5 elements thus for easier placement or visualization in terms of relationship; they chose to use Resources as it is more practical or application based. Useful in charting too.

In actual fact, if one chose on being "literal" as in the 5 elements, each element is accorded the Yin & Yang polarity; the actual term would be Righteous (Zheng Yin) Seal (正印) and Alternative (Pian Yin) Seal (偏印) and classically more appropriate accordingly.

Perhaps we all are looking at these wrongly as before we even come to the definition of best words to use in English, we should ask ourselves to what Purposeful application or goal is the usage/context before deciding on the words.

So i guess other than discussed; there's currently 3 categories of choice of words selected used based on purpose:
1) Practical application i.e. following the cycle of 5 elements or for visual placement in relationship
2) Lexical meaning i.e. more so on the meaning of the term in common usage in today's times OR stated as simply as possible in order to convey information to the widest audience globally.
3) Non lexical meaning which can include "literal translation"  i.e. (Pian Yin) (偏印) can be literally translated as Alternative/Deviate/Slant Seal.

For example on the above:
1) For practical application in terms of placement in production cycle of 5 elements: ReSource would be apt
2) For lexical meaning in English language, some would chose Empowerment/Support etc. etc.
3) For "literal translation" keeping the traditional words to relate to ancient times instead of modern times and original language then Pian Yin or Seal would be apt.
   - so like 'Dao' comment, he likes his PinYin so i guess he would likely stick to the classical transliteration which would be best.

All the above are best in each category; really depending on fit of purpose.

My 2 cents.

Cheers

Hi all,

Would like to ask some feedback from experienced practitioners, enthusiasts and masters here in this forum; on whether Bazi should continue with the term Qi Sha "7 Killing (7K, 七杀)" or replaced it with original term in our daily usage ?

i) Firstly, in some school of bazis, it does not carry a positive connotation, sort of bad to have
ii) Secondly, in some cases, this star can even be auspicious i.e. Sha Yin Xiang Shen (杀印相生)
iii) Thirdly, this term is relatively new in Bazi; original words used was Pian Guan 偏官 (not sure what is the most apt English word for this "Officer").
Qi Sha was more commonly found in Zi Wei Dou Shu (Purple Star Astrology) and Qi Men Dun Jia.

@DiegoFS , i see you like to use Qi Sha (7K, 七杀) a lot in your writing and also your posting in this forum; could you share, for any particular reasons for this incongruence choice; since you had espoused dropping Ten "Gods" to carry positive connotation and general world wide acceptance ?

"Penny for everyone thoughts" - an English idiom to meant Appreciated your generous sharing.

Cheers
 

Quote from: Charles on September 28, 2020, 07:35:52 PM

Hi newman,

How come the image has got Singtel; r u from / based in SG ?

Cheers,

Yah lived in Singapore.
You stay in Penang island or mainland?

Hi NewMan,

Island and sometimes i hang out at Sungai Bakap on mainland, u familiar with this part of town. Give me holler when you are around so we can makan makan

Cheers,

Hi all,

appreciated that diegofs is trying to attain a positive than a negative for the connotation of the word gods for shen神 persistently in CM world.

as am overseas chinese, having mahayan, theravada and christian relatives and even chinese relatives in few parts of china today, am sure the majority of1.5 B people brought up under CCP ideology are NOT going to "view what shen神 of the heart心 seems to have meant in the past(and I like to think it still means today, at least somewhat) ". This is Not going to happen as they would have a "certain" first impression or instilled perception for the meaning of such words in today's context.

as for diegofs " in the West Christian religions predominate, and they are the majority. The term God is untouchable, unless it is used for your prayers",
funnily the same would applies to CCP China today, if you have relatives in the high rung of the party, the social usage and practice of the term is also seem taboo as it would be seen that you are superstitious and not for current modern dogma, need more clocked time for ideology classes perhaps (do you know government servants have to periodically attend such classes every few years, as part of "continuing education points" especially those who had been to overseas - do read between the lines)?

On the other hand, imagined the mahayana buddhist or Taoist buddhist who already have their pantheon of Gods and bodhisattvas; and now to have CM gods into the everyday vocabulary, is also going to be seen as veering off to the path of Shintoist/animist japanese deities path i.e. god of golf, god of <named hobbies> etc...

So for east and west would have certain misaligned connotations. Just because of its essence to practitioners and its inbred familiarity for years, and the perceived manner of having an impactful influence or governance in CM usage, i believe like diegofs; there's likely to be more negative than positive perception to CM shen神 .

Can one really say Bazi, ZiWei or feng shui are non-religious, no-worship of deities and yet there's the word shen神 usage in CM vocabulary ?
Chinese Metaphysics is supposedly under the category of Chinese Philosophy umbrella but how does that convince outsiders or what's the first impression given if such words with potential negative connotations are used ?

Can't comment much about the "remedy", "antidote", "vaccine" bit but i would love to hear TCM practitioner sharing their feelings on the word connotation for someone that practice TCM but not practising CM.

Just thinking aloud and my 2 cents, no offense intended, more pun instead as am newbie here. We need to adapt with the times and sometimes past translation may be erroneous.

Cheers

Hi @Voytek,

am just curious as you mentioned that you remove the % off the pie chart, is this the same pie chart on the ten gods as i can see the % on the calculator though.

sorry in advance if my question is silly, if i missed something in my reading

cheers

Hi all

just keyed in my cousin bazi and am wondering if the person is suited for Accounting, finance or anything to do with money course or whatever industry befitting.

Appreciated any insights from the many seniors here.

Xie Xie

Hi all,

Am newbie here, am Charles based out in Penang, MY.

would like to know more on the visitor course. Appreciated it if can kindly point me in the right direction.

Xie Xie