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Yesterday, one of my relatives called me up in the afternoon, asked me to join him for tea with one of his friend from mainland China. According to my relative, this person also has an interest in Chinese Metaphysics. Having a couple of hours to spare before bringing my kids to play outdoor, I decided to meet this person.
When I met Mr. Leung (in his late 40’s), he told me he is from Hong Kong but now residing in Shanghai. My relative decide to de-tour to his newly bought condominium, I thought he was showing Mr. Leung some investment opportunities in Penang.
When we arrived at the condo building, my relative said “both of you can help check out the Feng Shui of my new place.” Mr Leung said he did not bring his compass. My relative point to me and said he got it in his phone. I reluctantly bring out my iPhone and check the reading. Mr Leung was very surprised with capability of the iPhone (in my daily work, I still use the Luo Pan, I think clients would not pay me my high fees if they see me using iPhone to do audit).
I decided not to say anything about the Feng Shui of his condo, because I am not working and it is a de-tour scenario. And when we got back in the car, Mr. Leung start to ask me some background questions about Feng Shui, the conversation goes something like this
Mr. Leung: How did you study Feng Shui?, you study it yourself from books?
GK Ham: I study under Grandmaster Lau on San Yuan Feng Shui. San He under two different master, and QMDJ from Master Ho in Hong Kong.
Mr Leung : Oh, San Yuan, you use Xuan Gong Flying Star?
GK Ham: No we don’t use Flying Star. Mainly San Yuan.
Mr. Leung: So San Yuan, you subscribe to the principle of changing to period 8 on 2004?
GK Ham: Actually we are not worried about the period. We are more concern about what is the qi structure of the property, exit of qi of the property and using Useful God in BaZi to match with the person’s allocation.
Mr. Leung: Then do you meddle with Ba Zi.
GK Ham: Of course.
Mr. Leung: It is actually good you have studied about San He. So that you can have a more broader outlook on Feng Shui. Just San Yuan alone would not be enough.
GK Ham: (obviously you do not know what you are talking about, if you study 2 system completely you would not be making this statement. San Yuan is a complete system and San He is a complete system, I’ve decided to dedicate my career on San Yuan, case close)
After these few Qs and As, in my mind, I thought Mr. Leung just has an interest in Feng Shui, so it is natural for those who are not in the field to make self and wrong assumptions about different systems or try to create hybrid systems.
When we reach his hotel, my relative asked me whether want to join them(Mr. Leung’s old friend Mr. Liu who is from China doing investment in Penang, and Mr. and Mrs Tan and their small daughter) for drinks, since it is still early, I have decided to join in.
When we sat down, Mr. Liu told my relative that Mr. Leung had helped a lot of people become rich in China. My relative was introduced to Mr. Leung a few days ago through Mr. Liu due to their business relation. Instantly it hit me, that Mr. Leung is also in Feng Shui consultant and Mr. Liu was trying to recommend him to my relative. I have become a human shield because most likely my relative find it hard to turn Mr. Liu down and thus bring me into the picture.
Anyhow, since I am stuck in the position, I might as well enjoy the afternoon tea. Then I saw Mr. Leung bring out his Chinese 10,000 years calendar and a note pad. Mr. and Mrs Tan wanted Mr. Leung to do BaZi analysis for their daughter who is having some illness. After Mr. Leung write up the BaZi, I had a brief glance on the BaZi as I was sitting next to him.
Mr. Leung decided to start his BaZi analysis on the Mr. Tan daughter, “Your daughter belong to water element, water strong like the sea.” (Because his daughter is strong REN壬 Water) “ Her illness will go away when she is 11, she will somehow find some doctors or person that will help her, when she reach her that age. Currently her strong water is being block by Earth, therefore the water cannot run smoothly.”
The young girl is Strong Ren Water, going through XU戌 Earth luck( which later when I go through my calendar, actually she is going through YOU酉 luck, apparently he made a mistake when writing up the young girl’s chart).
Plus her Ba Zi chart has an inherent SI巳, WU午, WEI未 forming Fire in the bottom. Using just a Yi 乙 Wood to prevent both fire and water from clashing. When she was born 7 years ago , the illness is not evident because year is GUI WEI癸未, followed by JIA SHEN甲申 and then YI YOU乙酉. All of it has wood, therefore the evident clash is not there at least until 2006.
The inherent clash, surfaced this year because GENG YIN 庚寅 year, Geng 庚combines with Yi乙 wood and thus inherent fire beneath clash upwards with the water, desease related to the blood. She suffers from Lupus.
(If you got lost in the above explanation, in brief his interpretation of the chart is not detail enough to get to the root of the problem)
Mr. Leung knowledge level is obviously not ready for him to go into this profession full time. Writing up BaZi chart and does not know the difference of Jie Qi 节气 for entering the month is not qualified to be giving advice to others.
I have no idea where he learn his BaZi or Feng Shui, anyway I am not interested to know. No wonder this field is being shun by some parts of the general public, it is these standard of “consultants” going around giving others advice on things and knowledge they thought they knew it inside out. Which in actual fact, what they are doing is just giving Chinese Metaphysics a bad name.
My advice is, if you learn it for own knowledge, you can consult your own family members and friends while maintaining a good feedback relation with your master, at least they can tell you when you make a mistake and correct you.
If you are doing it full time as a career. Thinking learning from books and some short talks by Feng Shui master, then you are trying to take a short cut and not doing your dues. The law of karma always catches up with you when you have done a string of damage through your advices to countless families and businesses. Which in reality their life would be better off not taking up your service in the first place!
And if you are doing it full time and try to wing it, one day there might be someone like me who just happen to sit next to you when you are doing your consultation and write up on his blog about it.
