The Teachings of Ham Yu (Part 1). Feng Ren Shui: Humanity as the Center of Cosmic Balance

Close your eyes and forget everything modern esotericism has whispered to you about the universe. No fairies granting wishes on demand, no dreamcatchers, and certainly no magical bed-shifting to make “energy flow.” Taoist cosmology is not magic. It is ancient, relentless physics and algorithms. And if you don’t understand your precise role in this system, the universe will simply grind you down.

Let’s look at the basic matrix of our world. At the platform the ancient masters called the Three Treasures, and why you should steer clear of classical Feng Shui (spoiler: it’s the science of grave-digging).

The Cosmic Electrical Circuit: Why Are We Even Here?

Imagine our world as a gigantic electrical circuit. To function, it needs three basic components:

• Heaven (Power Plant): This is time, action, vision, and pure Yang energy. Heaven is full of enormous, but utterly intangible potential. On its own, it builds nothing.
• Earth (Battery): This is space, matter, stability, and Yin energy. The battery is ready to store energy and give it form, but on its own, it is motionless and passive.
• Humanity (Cable): The Third Treasure. The one who stands precisely in the middle.

Here’s the hard logic: You can have the most powerful power plant and the largest battery, but until you connect these two points with a conductor, absolutely nothing will happen. Humanity is this conductor. In nature, there are only three entities that can naturally connect the energy of Heaven and Earth because they stand vertically: a mature tree, a stone menhir, and an adult, conscious human being. We did not come into this world as insignificant pawns or victims of fate. We are essential hardware. We are the connectors that enable the passage of cosmic energy.

The Dark Secret of the West: Why Feng Shui Belongs in a Graveyard

Today, it’s a huge trend to hire “Feng Shui” (meaning Wind and Water) consultants to paint your walls and rearrange your furniture. From the perspective of ancient masters, however, this is a massive, and critically, dangerous mistake.

When you remove Humanity from the equation and are left with only wind and water (pure time and pure space), you get an environment that crushes the human being. Historically, Chinese Feng Shui is the science of tombs. It is the art of how best and fastest to separate the soul from the body and surrender it to Heaven, while the body returns to Earth.

If you want to build space for the living, the correct term is Feng REN Shui – where the word Ren means Humanity.

Space without you has no function. It is you who gives meaning to a room by what you do in it. Look at today’s obsession with “smart homes.” The house is packed with technology; you turn on heating, washing machine, and lights remotely. You are not physically there; everything is unified and controlled by machines. Humanity as the stable center disappears from this space, becoming merely an external controller. The result? You create a dead house. The energy of a tomb that gradually uproots and drains you. Humanity must never recede into the background – it must be the physical and utterly conscious center of its space.

The Universe Is Not Your Fairy Godmother. It's a Strict Investor.

The modern “self-development” industry tells us that simply thinking positively, sending wishes into the universe, will make them come true. But ancient texts speak clearly: The universe holds no human sympathy for us. To it, we are like straw dogs, which you discard into a river after a ritual.

This doesn’t mean the universe is evil. It means it does not fulfill whims. It operates like a completely cold, rational investor or a strict building authority. To support you, you must have a sustainable business plan, not just a naive dream on a vision board.

How does this work in practice? Imagine you wish for an enormous luxury house in solitude. You ask the Universe for support. But from the Universe’s perspective, such a house is merely a giant black hole for energy – it requires heating, water, maintenance, and money that you realistically don’t have. Your vision is not viable. The Universe sees no reason to waste energy on a project that will soon fall into disrepair, and so it simply won’t give it to you.

But change your approach. Present a clear plan: “I will build a community center there. I know exactly how I will pay for it, I know who will clean it, and I know what added value it will bring.” You have just given your dream a function. And at that moment, the Universe will literally bend over backward to provide you with people, resources, and opportunities. Your functional goal has become its goal too.

You Are the Cable. What Are You Connected To?

You are not a victim of fate. You are the absolute centerpiece of the cosmic equation. For your life (Earth) and your opportunities (Heaven) to function in harmony, you must know exactly what function you fulfill in a given time and space. You must approach the Universe with sustainable and well-thought-out plans.

Because any action of yours without a clearly defined function is, from the Universe’s perspective, merely a needless waste of cosmic energy. And no one will recharge it for free.

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Ham Yu Teachings (Part 2). The Dynamics of Yin and Yang and the Secret of the Two Heavens