Over the last years the principles of tao (feng shui) have gained big popularity in the western world. While reading the book "One man Caravan" by Robert Fulton I received a first introduction on the subject, even though that's far from the book's intention.
"In China evil spirits have the convenient limitation of being able to travel only in straight line... Feng-shui... , rules of counter-magic capable of discouraging any black-magic ever invented. No wall in China is ever built straight lest an evil spirit raze it from end to end; no two gates of a city are in line lest some evil, entering at one, make a clean sweep of the place and escape at the other. In the middle there is always a jog around which he cannot get. Into the bargain, there are bells which, when you ring them, will be heard by your most distant relatives and start them racing home; and no child must ever sleep except with a tiger-pillow to scare away spiritual marauders."
The book finishes with following words of the author:
"One measure of a man is what he does when he has nothing to do"
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