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The person

A man who carries a luopan and a keyboard

My name is Lau Shanxi, 刘山溪. Sean Lau in English, Jiuchen as a Daoist name. Zhengyi school, Longhu Mountain, Shan generation, and the Shan in my name is the generation character. Master Falei brought me into the Dao in 2016, after two years of looking me over.

Sydney and Melbourne, over a thousand people through the door by now. Houses mostly, then charts, single questions put to the hexagrams, and dates. People often open by asking whether I believe in any of it. What I usually say is that the Chinese rule about sitting north and facing south has to be turned over down here, because north is the sunny side below the equator. You do not have to take my word for that one. Go outside and look at the sun. With charts I do not hand people verdicts. Not out of withholding: there is more to give than a sentence. A sentence answers when, while what you usually want to work out is why you want the thing at all and how it is to be had. What a chart can show you is which way the road runs: which years you can move quickly through, which years call for care, and what frame of mind to carry through a given stretch. The real nuisance on a site visit is not the house anyway. It is parking. Half the older streets here are too narrow to get the compass level before somebody wants the car moved.

The boxing came first. At fifteen I did basic conditioning under old Master Zhang Yuren at home, and he sent me on to Taigu, into old Master Che Xiangqian's school. Shanxi Che lineage, Shang generation. Somewhere in those Taigu years an inner breath started moving and I had no words for it. Both teachers said the same thing: for that, go into the Daoist tradition. So I read my way in, and the boxing never stopped. I still teach a few students.

Weekdays I write software. A computing degree from UTS, a master's in accounting from UNSW. Casting a chart is fussy in the same way software is fussy: give it a moment and a place, the pillars fall out, the luck periods run down from there, and one wrong step early puts everything after it out. The solar terms are where people come unstuck, and below the equator you have to flip them.

18
years reading the Yi Jing
8
years practising in Australia
1000+
people served
Zhengyi
Longhu Mtn · "Shan" gen.
Che
Shanxi Xingyi · "Shang" gen.

Lineage

Training and education

  1. 2025 — present

    Started teaching properly

    The reason I got into it is where I had been myself. Friends betrayed me. There was the sharp practice that comes with business, being lied to, being used. Family who did not understand. Those were bad years, my luck was poor, and I was low. What gave me a direction to walk in was the Dao. It should not stay shut inside old books, so I took what I had studied and what I had lived through and tried to make it useful to more people, and to put this material within reach of more of them.

  2. 2021 — present

    Founded Dao Metaverse

    A 3D online temple, AI-assisted scripture teaching, a course system. Moving Daoist practice into digital space, with the code written by me.

  3. 2018 — 2020

    Landing in Australia

    Surveying the geography of Australian cities and working with local communities, one household at a time. The southern-hemisphere landform, the orientations, and what Chinese families here actually need were all worked out in those years.

  4. 2014 — 2016

    Examined, then taken in

    Master Falei started looking me over in 2014 and took me in two years later. There is nothing much to say about those two years. I waited and got on with things.

  5. 2008 — 2014

    From boxing into Daoism

    Somewhere in those Taigu years an inner breath started moving and I could not say what it was. Both my teachers gave me the same pointer: to go further with that, look inside the Daoist tradition. So I started reading Daoist texts; the vocabulary of inner alchemy and the Yi Jing runs through all of it, which sent me back to teach myself the Zhouyi.

  6. From age fifteen — 2018

    Xingyiquan: home town, then Taigu

    I began with basic conditioning under old Master Zhang Yuren in my home town. He thought me too young to take as a formal disciple, and later recommended me to old Master Che Xiangqian in Taigu. For the same reason of age, Master Che had one of his own disciples take me on formally, but the boxing itself he taught me in person. That line ran until 2018.

Credentials

  • Zhengyi Daoist Priest · "Shan" generation

    Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi

    An ordained disciple of the Zhengyi school of Longhu Mountain, inheritor of the "Shan" generation. Both liturgy and doctrine have a source.

  • Xingyiquan Inheritor · Che lineage, "Shang" generation

    Taigu, Shanxi · under Master Che Xiangqian

    First taught by old Master Zhang Yuren in my home town, then under old Master Che Xiangqian in Taigu: the Che lineage, "Shang" generation. I teach standing post, the Five Elements and the Twelve Animals. For me the boxing came before the Daoism; the question about inner breath came out of the training.

  • Course in Predictive Studies

    China Yi Jing Institute

    Formal training in the predictive arts founded on the Yi Jing — image, number, principle and divination taken together.

  • Bachelor of Computer Science

    University of Technology Sydney

    The engineering and analytical foundation. Today’s 3D temple and AI systems all grow from it.

  • Master of Accounting

    University of New South Wales

    Mostly what it means is that ledgers don't scare me. It has less to do with the charts than people assume.

Building

What I am working on

The Way is not far from people. These are the footholds I have built for an old discipline, using an engineer’s hands.

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