Suzan Hilton - The Feng Shui of Abundance

Suzan Hilton, CPA

BROADWAY BOOKS New York

Contents

3. Clearing Clutter, Getting Unstuck, and
Stopping Your Wealth Drain

10. The Doldrums: Overcoming Personal and
Professional Obstacles

11. Emerging from the Desert: Rebuilding Your
Wealth from the Ground Up

May the Divine Spirit
breathe through,
move, and inspire all

Acknowledgments

m any of the ideas presented here were first experienced at workshops with Drs. Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks of The Hendricks Institute, some from seminars by Context Associated, Inc., and books and lectures by Wayne Dyer and Gary Zukav. Thank you for going before me and lighting the path.

My life has been immeasurably enhanced by wonderful teachers, and like all students, I stand on the shoulders of those who walked before me:

Feng Shui Grand Master His Holiness Professor Thomas Lin Yun Rinpoche and his students, Crystal Chu, Sarah Rossbach, and Ann-Marie C. Holmes, all keepers of the sacredness of the earth and the ancient wisdom.

Norman Vincent Peale, Earl Nightingale, and Napolean Hill.

Sogetsu School of Ikebana: my own teacher, Master Keiko Kodachi, her teacher Master Takashi Suzuki, the late Headmaster Hiroshi Teshigahara, and founder Sofu Teshigahara.

Kathleen Weymouth Skinner, who pointed out a new path. Julia Cameron and The Artist's Way for opening the door to creating possibilities, Jim Nav for heartfelt creativity, and Mark Bryan for his undivided attention when I was ready to take a major detour.

Drs. Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks and The Hendricks Institute, who shared their hearts, minds, and wisdomin workshops and way beyond.

Reverend Mary Manin Morrissey, who still dreams of a world filled with love.

Special thanks to my agent, Craig Nelson, and to my editor, Suzanne Oaks, her assistant Claire Johnson, and the staff of Broadway Books.

Kung-Be Master I-Hong Chou for his beautiful Chinese landscape watercolors.

Hats off to Steve Sisgold, who, like the great coach and friend that he is, believed in me even when I did not.

To Mom, who was there at the beginning, and my sister, Jacqueline, who remembers so many things and has loved me all along the way.

Thanks to special friends for believing in and journeying with me: Diana Selene, Jody Houghton, Tricia Rock, Susan Christine and Colin Hay, Marilyn McFarlane, and Shane and Debbie Beck.

Abundant thanks to many more friends whose hearts and lives have touched mine. May many blessings rain down upon you, filling your crystal lake and inspiring you to continue on your sacred journey to open-hearted abundance.

Any errors are mine. May compassion enfold all hearts and minds so they flow with abundance.

Preface

BY HIS HOLINESS GRANDMASTER PROFESSOR
THOMAS LIN YUN RINPOCHE

t he worlds chiheaven chi, earth chi, human chiare constantly interacting, regardless of whether East winds gradually blow to the West, or vice versa. Eastern and Western cultures have always been interchanging at various levels within different cultural contexts. In fact, everything that we have seen from the time of sciences flourish and transformation to current developments in advanced technologies, are testimonies to West winds gradually blowing to the East.

Within the realms of consciousness, spiritualism, esotericism, and folk culture, the East has transmitted a great deal of knowledge to the West. Geomancy [divination through lines and figures] is a case in point. Since the publication of four feng shui masterpieces by the multi-talented feng shui expert and scholar, Sarah Rossbach (Feng Shui: The Chinese Art of Placement; Interior Design with Feng Shui; Living Color: Master Lin Yuns Guide to Feng Shui and the Art of Color; and Feng Shui Design: The Art of Creating Harmony for Interiors, Landscape and Architecture), feng shuis immense popularity has risen steadily over the past twenty years in the Americas and Europe, where feng shui lectures, workshops, publications, new schools of thought, consultations, and certifications emerge like bamboo shoots springing up after the new rain.

Having seen Suzan Hiltons The Feng Shui of Abundance, I feel that it too is a new force in feng shui suddenly come to the fore. Basing her initial observations and analysis on logic and incorporating many transcendental ideas, and through her systematic analysis of the linkage between body and mind of the East and the West, the author shows the reader how to increase wealth and create abundance. She teaches us to combine the essence of eastern and western cultures based on the principle of harmonizing ru-shithe mundane/rational/reasonable/logical, and chu-shithe transcendental.

Supplemented with wonderful illustrations, The Feng Shui of Abundance emphasizes the Wests practical methods, including minimizing waste and extravagance, knowing when one is spending beyond ones means, stimulating wealth generation with your money, and saving. Using the River of Gold as a metaphor, Ms. Hilton, with her excellent background as a certified public accountant, teaches the reader how to stimulate new creativity by paying attention to body sensations, emotional responses, and rational analysis, and emphasizes the importance and influence of feng shui. Through these methods, the reader will learn how to stabilize unsuccessful and unstable financial situations amidst financial turbulence, and how to navigate to safety amid the torrents of financial crisis. As such, even an ordinary person will learn how to overcome difficulties and obstacles in personal and professional lives, and how, as if creating an oasis in the desert, to build up wealth from nothing. Finally, the author teaches us how to hold on to financial stability once we have made money and become wealthy and how to solidify the wonderful state of steady wealth accumulation.

The choice of illustrations and the book covers artwork are original and novel. In particular, the rare opportunity to include the exquisite Chinese brush paintings by the renowned artist, Master I-Hong Chou, adds to this wonderful book. This book offers detailed explications on feng shui, yin yang, the five elements, circulation of chi, energy, the cyclicity of renewal and rebuilding, and includes other topics such as the Three Entrance Trigrams, the importance of transcendental aspects of omens relating to wealth positions, and how to increase income, reduce expense, and prevent depletion of wealth by decorating the wealth position with color and other objects.

If, after studying this book, you are inspired to thoroughly understand and practice the books methods of wealth creation and accumulation spanning the East and the West, the mundane and the transcendental, and if, as a result, you rise from poverty to riches, and your wealth grows from nothing and multiplies, you should remember two important points:

First, the Red Envelope Question. In her book, Suzan raises this issue. Primarily, the transmission of transcendental solutions relating to wealth (and other matters) is considered to be revealing sacred heavenly secrets, which, according to traditional Chinese beliefs, is harmful to the teacher, and offers no particular benefits to the recipients of this knowledge. Therefore, you must accept red envelopes to acknowledge the sacredly precious and mysterious natures as well as utmost cautions associated with the transmission of these transcendental solutions. For details regarding red envelopes, please refer to Appendix D, which includes discussions on the topic by Lynn Ho Tu and Dr. Chang Chiu, both of whom are experts and scholars of the Black Sect Tantric Buddhist School of feng shui, and the I-Ching as well.