The common mistakes of nowadays Feng Shui Learners 1

Feng Shui has a long time history, the knowledge was only transfer verbally without an organized institute. Our previous masters confirmed that this knowledge was belonging to the Royal Academic’s knowledge, which challenges the God’s wish. Therefore our previous masters were very careful in choosing their inheritors; they didn’t want to get the God mad.

During the New China period, Feng Shui Master Tam Yeung Ng (談養吾) was the first one to start the distance learning courses of the Feng Shui. Consequently, from 1970 to 1980, Master Tseng Chi Nam (曾子南) in Taiwan also used this type of method to teach Feng Shui. However, Feng Shui was not that popular during this moment. It was until Master Song Siu Kwong (宋韶光) got invited to talk about Feng Shui on the television in Hong Kong during the late 1980s, Feng Shui became more popular. Feng Shui classes were booming. More and more people knew about Feng Shui. New masters and practitioners were coming out in less than a year. Some of them were below the age of 20. Everyone who had a Chinese Compass can be called “Master”. As more people immigrated to other countries before 1997, the Feng Shui belief started to expand from its origin to globally, and part of this knowledge was translated into different languages.

From the optimistic point of view, this has made the Chinese Ancient knowledge become more popular and allow more chances for the public to read more Ancient Feng Shui Books (supply and demand). However, from the pessimistic standpoint, the lack of reviewing and evaluating the Feng Shui principles before teaching others propose a big drawback to this study. It is similar to a blind person leading another group of blind people to cross the road. It is very dangerous for this group of people and the public. This will make Feng Shui end up in the wrong direction while the true knowledge will be disappeared.

When I started learning Feng Shui, most of the real masters were hidden in the society. Some of them preferred to work in a different area instead of the Feng Shui field as they didn’t want to help or teach a wrong person. They only taught someone whom they really trust. It is because there is a “Universal Law” which all the real masters must follow. During that time, finding a true master is very difficult and money was useless in this situation. If you didn’t have a pair of wisdom eyes, you would never find a real master. If you were not humble enough, you would never get a chance to talk about Feng Shui with them. Although you might get into the door, you would never have a learning schedule. When the master taught you one theory; you needed to apply it into other theories. You needed to spend a lot of time to digest. As a result, those graduated masters had a solid foundation while a weak system in teaching. As it was hard to get the knowledge, they preferred to keep it as a secret. That was the problem for us to learn Feng Shui during that moment.

Nowadays Feng Shui seems to have a better system, and every Feng Shui class have a similar syllabus. If you dare to ask those teachers about the principles that they teach and the results of those principles, most of them couldn’t answer because they just copy either from the book or their masters’ materials. When a student asked some deeper questions, they might give a wrong answer or create a new concept of Feng Shui because they do not fully understanding the knowledge. They guide their followers into the wrong direction. But who cares?

In this money-talking world, marketing is the key to success, not the skill. A lot of Feng Shui learners claim themselves as a Feng Shui master and give Feng Shui seminars to the public without any proof of their knowledge. They do not want to miss the hot Feng Shui market. They try their best to maximize the profit in this hot market. Based on their own benefits, arguments arise among the different schools as well as between the masters and their students. Feng Shui newcomers are experiencing difficulties to decide whom they should follow. This one of the main problems for today’s Feng Shui learners.

I started learning Chinese Metaphysics in 1972; and from this year to the year I started teaching I-Ching in the continue education of Chinese University in Hong Kong, I already had 18 years of practice. Through out those years, I had prove my knowledge and I was very confident that I can identify the flaws of various Feng Shui practices out in the public before I started my teaching career. The knowledge that I taught my students was proved by me. You will find it out when one day you get the chance to learn from me. You are welcome to compare what you have learned before.

Choosing a real master is not difficult; but the most important is to have the right attitude to get into the Feng Shui field. What kind of person you are will attract what kind of master in your life. Furthermore, all the real masters have a clear linage; they don’t like to argue with others. They are more humble and don’t like to show off. They will show you the proof for their knowledge. When you apply his/her knowledge, you will get at least 80% accuracy in the result. They will be more selective in choosing their clients and students. If you find this kind of symptoms in your masters, you can follow them and confirm whether they are the right masters for you or not.

As the old Chinese saying, "Open your wisdom eyes to select is better than use your ears to select."