时时旺财！

一个接着一个……这么多了不起的旺财水晶山已给我们有福的客人请走了！非常恭喜！

相信你们已经知道旺财水晶山在住宅风水中的重要性，尤其是在这个来临的丁酉年里，我这里就不赘述了。

我在馆中为某一位客人（秘密）选择最适合的旺财宝贝时，看到了这个：时时送财 黄金蟾。

我脑海浮现了这个想法：我们有没有一个时时接财的心态？毕竟一个巴掌拍不响。

我们常说旺财风水是佩戴你的旺财宝贝，也是在任何时刻任何地方做出最旺的决定。

这是一种生活方式，奢华的生活方式。

要是我们上网搜索生活方式(lifestyle)的定义就会得到以下结果：

所以它就是一种生活的方式。每一天，每一个决定，每一秒钟，我们都在“不旺财”与“旺财”做决定。

我选择了华丽的富贵，你呢？

——林家伟，顾问助理

（译）

雲龍画系列六：文化、色彩和黄金的运用——雲龍画是中国画吗？

对于文化，乃至宗教，我向来抱持着多元而非单一的看法。

许多华族“文化”人，以不说他族语文，不食他族料理为荣；他们自然也瞧不起新加坡式英语和新加坡式华语。

我却想：何必如此？衡量文化的标准应该是我们之包容度，我们之所知，我们之所爱，而非我们之所排斥，我们之所忽视，我们之所鄙视。

文化毕竟是人性，而对人性感兴趣便是热爱文化。

所以我们应该学习自身的文化，也应该学习他族的文化；为自身文化自豪的同时，欣赏他族之文化。

一些中国画画家看了我的画便问：“这是中国画吗？这是中国艺术吗？”

我就说：“这重要吗？我是华人，我的作品自然是中国画，不是吗？”

难道中国画必须以中国人一千多年前发明的画具完成，画风必需停留在好几个朝代前，而画法也要使用几世纪前发明的？

我刻意在画中使用黄金和各种色彩。我有丰富的技艺，但我选择专注于色彩的运用。

因为中国文人视黄金和色彩为 低级、俗气和庸俗。

但在我看来，何必鄙视可以丰富我们生活的东西呢？无论是丰富我们的生活或是他人的生活。

所以我们应该接受色彩。

而黄金……则是上天的恩赐。

它是世上唯一不生锈的物质；它遇火不失重量或体积；它永不腐朽。

没有任何人事物可以超越时间的摧残，唯独黄金可以。

因此，它不仅拥有物质价值，还有精神价值；它反映着人类克服时间的永恒追求。

——云龙子大师（译）

时时旺财！

One after another!...so many amazing Lotus crystal mountains are chosen by blessed clients this season -- Congratulations!

I believe most of you would know why we need to have the Lotus crystal mountain at home for the quantum fengshui, especially in the coming Fire Rooster year; 丁酉年. So I shall not go into the details...

I was walking around the gallery to look for the best options for this particular client (shall not mention who) and I saw this: 时时送财 黄金蟾.
Then something came to my mind...我们有没有一个时时接财的心态？It takes two hands to clap, right?

Come to think of it, we always say that the Lotus prosperity is about wearing the Lotus collections and it is also very much about choosing prosperity at every single path, at every single turn.



It's a lifestyle, a luxurious lifestyle. 
And if we look up the dictionary the meaning of lifestyle, we get this:




Therefore I can say that it is a way of life. Every single day, every single decision, every single second we are choosing between 不旺财 or 旺财.

Prosperity with elegance for me any day! What's your choice?

-- Samuel Ling, Assistant to Advisor

Master Yun’s Paintings Part 6: About Culture, Colors And Using Gold -- Are Master Yun’s paintings Chinese paintings?

 

When it comes to culture (and even religion), I don't hold a purist stance but an enrich stance.

As in…lots of Chinese "cultured" people pride themselves by not speaking other languages and taking other races’ food. And of course they sneer at Singlish and Sinnese (Singapore Chinese).

But I would think, why do that? We should measure our depth of culture by how much we include, we know, we love; not how much we exclude, we ignore, we disdain.

Culture is after all, humanity. We love culture when we take interest in humanity.

So we should learn a lot of our culture and learn a lot of other cultures as well. We are proud of our own while we appreciate others.

So some Chinese artist would look at my paintings and ask: "Is this Chinese painting? Is this Chinese art?"

So I say, what does it matter? I am Chinese so my art is Chinese art. Is it not enough?

Does it need to be Chinese only when I use the tools that are invented by Chinese one thousand years ago, holding on to the taste that belongs to a few dynasties ago, and using the technique that was invented centuries ago?

I purposely use gold and lots of colors in my paintings. I mean I have a repertoire of skills, but I chose the above as my focus.

Because most Chinese literati 文人 disdain gold and colors as low taste, materialistic, worldly庸俗。

But for me, I think, why should we disdain anything that enriches lives? Our lives, or lives of others.

So we should embrace colors.

And for gold...it's given by God.

It's almost the only material in this world that never rusts. It melts under fire but never reduce in size and weight. And it never rots.

Strangely, even in times when people of different continents have not started interacting with one another, people universally loved gold and regarded it as their most precious commodities.  They all used gold as money.

Humans live in a temporary world, and everything around us disintegrates and rots in time.

No one, nothing, can gain victory over the erosion of time. Only gold can.

So, it's not just a material value, but spiritual as well. Showing human beings’ timeless desire to conquer time.

-- Master Yun Long Zi