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The person

A man who carries a luopan and a keyboard

My family name is Lau; my Daoist name is Jiuchen. I am an ordained priest of the Zhengyi school of Longhu Mountain, "Shan" generation. In 2014 I entered the Dao under Master Chen Sanlong; I started practising in Australia in 2016 and founded Dao Metaverse in 2021.

Across Sydney and Melbourne I have worked with more than a thousand people: reading Bazi charts, casting a hexagram on a single question, selecting dates, and auditing houses. Feng Shui, to me, is not mysticism. It is a very old and very concrete set of rules about how a person and a place get along. Which way the door faces, where the water comes from, which room you sleep in. All of it counts.

The boxing actually came first. At fifteen I did basic conditioning under old Master Zhang Yuren in my home town, and on his recommendation went to Taigu, into the school of old Master Che Xiangqian: Shanxi Che lineage, "Shang" generation. In 2008 the training produced a sense of breath moving inside that I could not name, and both teachers said the same thing, that to go further I would have to look inside the Daoist tradition. That is how I read my way into the Dao. I still teach the boxing, if anyone wants it.

I have a second face: a Bachelor of Computer Science from UTS and a Master of Accounting from UNSW. So I also write code, and I use it to move Daoist practice into a three-dimensional online temple and into an AI that reads scripture with you. Rigour in divination and rigour in engineering are, for me, the same discipline.

16+
years studying the Yi Jing
10+
years in practice
1000+
people served
Zhengyi
Longhu Mtn · "Shan" gen.

Lineage

Training and education

  1. 2021 — present

    Founded Dao Metaverse

    Bringing Feng Shui and Daoist studies into digital space: a 3D online temple, AI-assisted scripture teaching, and the academy course system, while continuing to practise for clients in Sydney and Melbourne.

  2. 2016 — 2020

    Australian fieldwork and case studies

    Surveying the geographic character of Australian cities and working closely with local communities, accumulating a body of southern-hemisphere case studies and an understanding of what Chinese households here actually need.

  3. 2014

    Entering the Dao

    I met my Daoist teacher, Master Chen Sanlong, and under his examination and guidance entered the Daoist priesthood. I had been studying the Yi Jing on my own for years by then and was stuck; this was the point at which I finally had a transmission behind me.

  4. 2008 — 2014

    From boxing into Daoism

    Training under old Master Zhang, I began to feel an inner breath moving and 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.

  5. 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

    A training in numbers and structure, which is why I read a chart, a site or a ledger the same way: order first.

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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