Richard Britell, June 13, 2012
240. Having finished his preamble, he looked down at the cast on his foot, as did everyone else. "Imagine for a moment", he went on, "a flight of stairs ending at a closed door. Now, further imagine you have just rung the door bell. The door opens out, and pushes you backwards so that you fall down the stairs! Do you not see," Buboni went on, "That the door in question is in the wrong place, and opens the wrong way? Isn't it obvious? This is an example of very bad Feng Shui."
241. "Now consider the door to your bathroom on the second floor of the Monastery dormitory. If one were about to open that door, and instead the door were to open because someone else was coming out, then the door in question would give you a shove right down the staircase, as happened to me in the middle of the night."
242. It was just like him to turn his misfortune into a lecture on architecture and spatial arrangement, but I could see the point he was trying to make. Just the simple rebuilding of the dormitory, or the rearrangement of the plumbing of the 400 year old building would surely solve the problem of the door opening the wrong way.
243. The Abbot offered no apology for the Feng Shui of his building and the expression on his face told me that he was not very sympathetic to old Buboni's complaints. I understood Buboni's point, but I could also sympathize with the Abbot. I too had the same experience about the Feng Shui of my house, because of my wife's friend Bernice, the Feng Shui expert.
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