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Contemporary Feng Shui - Feng
Shui is not a Fine Art
It is undeniable that Feng Shui
is an ancient subject. As the society has developed and people
have evolved, it is necessary to make Feng Shui practice adapts to
our new society. For example, there was no electric tower, no
flyover and no subway one hundred years ago; but we have to deal
with these Feng Shui problems now. This is how the term
Contemporary Feng Shui comes.
The fact is: our society did not
change overnight. Feng Shui has been developed, expanded, modified
and improved to fit the changes of society in the past four thousand
years. It keeps on changing everyday and it is contemporary
already. If you study the Feng Shui nowadays and compare with
those in the ancient books, you will find that many theories have
already been added to it. The principles, however, are still the
same.
Some geomancers copied some
theories from Feng Shui without knowing its principles, added their
own stuff to it and called it contemporary Feng Shui. That is unacceptable. I came
across some geomancers who said it was not good to place a single
lamp post in front of a bed, because it meant ‘One Night Stand’;
which was not good for getting or maintaining a stable relationship.
They simply used the 'homophonic' words – ‘One Light
Stand’ to ‘One Night Stand’. Many people would find this funny and
accept the interpretation of it. I am not sure if such kind of
geomancy works or not, but definitely it is not Feng Shui. Did
the Chinese speak English four thousand years ago as their mother
tongue? Did the term ‘One Night Stand’ appear four thousand years
ago? Definitely not! There is no way such kind of
geomancy to be part of Feng Shui.
You may copy a Chinese character,
use it as a pattern, and write it in different fonts. You can even
change the character into a diagram in a way that the diagram is no
longer a Chinese character. People may admire this as a fine
art. However, you cannot use such diagrams to write a Chinese
essay. No one in the world will be able to understand such
essay except you. It is because the 'characters' you used are
no longer Chinese characters; they are the diagram invented by you.
The same logic applies to some of
the so-called contemporary Feng Shui promoters. Feng Shui is not a fine
art and cannot be changed that way. Those promoters just used a
small portion of Feng Shui concepts and called their 'new inventions'
contemporary Feng Shui.
For example, a Feng Shui
consultant uses Bagua to tell Feng Shui must also use Loupan to tell
the directions. Otherwise, it is like using a map to find roads in
the wild without using a compass. Unfortunately, there are many
‘contemporary Feng Shui’ practitioners using Bagua to tell Feng Shui
without using Loupan, saying that those are contemporary Feng Shui.
This kind of ‘Feng Shui’ will not be accurate and, even worse; it
may bring opposite or harmful effects to the people who use the
property.
To be fair to everyone - the genuine
Feng Shui practitioners, believers and general public, those
contemporary Feng Shui without the support of full Feng Shui
principles should not be called Feng Shui. They should be
called Geomancy Design, or Contemporary Geomancy, or any other name
but NOT Feng Shui.
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