The more mysterious, the more interested, and the more I want to explore. This is human nature, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign. The year before last, an American friend who was interested in China culture, I forgot his name "Ke" or "Si", made a special trip to Shandong to explore the mysterious culture. I visited Master Hong En in Lingyan Temple and Zhang Daochang in Taishan, and then exchanged views with me on Zhouyi and Feng Shui in Jinan for an afternoon. Please also ask me to give a live demonstration, make a divination for him, and approve the eight characters. It's amazing. It's amazing. You can see a person's life as soon as you are born, and you can see good or bad by shaking three copper coins. In his view, it is simply inexplicable and incredible.
No wonder. Knowledge such as feng shui fortune telling was previously called metaphysics. Metaphysics is the study of metaphysics. It has a long history and mysterious significance. Zhouyi, Laozi and Zhuangzi are called "San Xuan". Nowadays, many parents who like traditional culture let their children recite Zhouyi and Laozi when they are young. I have always opposed this practice. Why? It is easy to lead children astray. Because such books are impossible to understand without a certain amount of knowledge accumulation and life experience. Kong Old Master Q said: If I spend a few years, I can learn it easily at the age of 50. It's no big deal. He never said "learning is easy at the age of five". Why? It doesn't make sense, just like your doctoral program can't teach children a truth. Most of the so-called Chinese studies classes in society are tinkered with by people who don't understand Chinese studies. The purpose is to make money, and I don't know how to enlighten children in Chinese studies. At best, this practice is misleading children, at worst, it is life-threatening.
All words carry specific information. These metaphysical information enter the child's brain and will disturb his cognition. It has a bad influence on the formation of normal ideas. It is precisely for this reason that Confucius emphasized in the Book of Rites that "it is easy to teach and lose a thief". Using the Book of Changes to educate people and children, if we can't understand it correctly, it is easy to make people feel guilty and shortsighted. I've been thinking, I've been thinking. We often see some people who study Zhouyi, Feng Shui and fate in the society, who are nervous and don't pull a few evils. Don't look people in the eye. You always squint when you're not looking. This is a typical "theft", which is biased in learning and wrong in use. Zhouyi is the avenue of heaven and earth, and geomantic fortune-telling is the human Buddhism. Learning the true scriptures and making good use of them can benefit mankind, otherwise it will be a disaster, and cheat people will do harm to others.
"Mountain, medicine, life, physiognomy and divination" are collectively called "Five Techniques of Metaphysics". Mountain refers to alchemy and cultivation of immortals; Medicine, that is, Chinese medicine; Life, that is, pushing life, includes the number of eight characters and the number of Chinese characters; Phase, including the name, face and place are equal, and the place is feng shui; Divination is divination. I once had dinner with a Chinese doctor, during which I talked about how his teacher used magic to treat patients. He said he was always curious. "As long as you say a few words to the patient, the disease will be fine. It's incredible. " I told him that this is called "You Zhu's technique", which is an ancient branch of Chinese medicine. Desire is a spell, and reason is a reason. Nowadays, people call for the souls of their children and put up posters on the street saying, "The emperor is in a panic, and there is a crying lang in my family." On the way, the gentleman read it three times and slept until dawn. "This practice belongs to You Zhu Shu. He listened with an epiphany. Lian said: That's strange. I studied Chinese medicine, and I didn't even know there was such a secret technique. I said, this belongs to magic. After 49 years, it was listed as superstition, and no one dared to teach it. In fact, not only the "You Zhu technique" of traditional Chinese medicine has been lost, but foxes and weasels also dare not practice because they are not allowed to become immortals, so they can only steal chickens to eat.
People think that Feng Shui is mysterious because it has a mysterious way of expression and operation. Such as the feng shui trend of Yin and Yang, Five Elements, Eight Diagrams, Four Elephants and Dragon Point. Without special efforts, these terms alone make people dizzy. Coupled with some folklore, Feng Shui is so mysterious that it seems omniscient and omnipotent, which leads to this view.
In fact, you will understand the origin and principle of Feng Shui. Although feng shui is mysterious, it is not as mysterious as the legend. Just our understanding and application of the living environment.
The environment itself is amazing. If we understand and use it correctly, it will be beneficial to people, otherwise it will be harmful. Feng Shui coincides with modern environmental science.
There is a mystery between heaven and earth. However, it is the progress of human civilization that closes the channel of communication with heaven and earth. Yin Fujing: Heaven kills, but the stars are easy to stay. Murder, land of dragons and snakes. Man kills, and heaven and earth come back to life. Heaven and man are one, and everything is determined. Before major natural disasters, the stars will change, such as five-star alignment and comets. Snakes, mice and other burrowing animals will also escape early. Six months before the tsunami in Indonesia, it was said that the aborigines on a local island stopped fishing and moved to the top of the mountain. So most of the people swept away by the tsunami are tourists from developed countries.
Modern science has proved that everything carries energy, which can affect people. There are good and bad energy. Feng Shui is to keep people in a high-quality energy environment and stay away from a low-quality energy environment. For example, the earth's fault zone has scientifically proved that its magnetic field is abnormal, and the surrounding animals and plants have mutated. People who live in such places will mutate after a long time. China's ancestors knew thousands of years ago which places were suitable for human survival and which places were not suitable for human habitation. Of course, it was impossible to know that there was a fault zone of the earth. But they will distinguish the quality and distribution of qi according to the shapes of mountains, rivers, plants, birds and animals. So as to avoid evil spirits. There are a lot of bad qi around us now, but we no longer use the word qi, but often use magnetic fields and energy anomalies to express it. Electromagnetic radiation near high-voltage lines, transmission towers and substations belongs to magnetic field and energy anomalies. Living around here for a long time will be bad for people's health.
Of course, there are also some sensory problems that belong to us. In the face of half-stretching and half-stretching, the uneven broken wall is definitely not as comfortable as the lush water plants. Living in stinking garbage stations and ditches is certainly not as pleasant as singing birds and flowers. These are common sense, everyone knows. Once I went to a village in southwest Shandong, I found that there were more than ten families next to the flour mill, all of which were in disaster. The locals said that there used to be a Niangniang Temple here, and these families may have occupied the land in the temple and been punished. I said grandma Taishan was safe. How could it bring disaster to people? The real reason is the sound. From the perspective of geomantic omen, a bad voice is also an evil. The flour mill keeps the same tune all day. Living in the neighborhood for a long time will definitely drive people crazy. Anyone who has seen the movie Six Fingers on the Qin Devil thinks it is an artistic exaggeration. In fact, the decibel of music can kill people. Everyone has this experience, listening to cheerful music in a good mood, listening to sad music in a bad mood. If a person speaks without cadence, the person who talks to him will be upset; If a person speaks without punctuation and talks endlessly, it will be disgusting if there is no chance to interrupt. These all belong to the category of sound.
People often say that looking beautiful and feeling comfortable is good feng shui. That's true. Others say that if you have good ideas, there will be good feng shui wherever you live. That makes sense. But this is just the appearance of feng shui. Reflects people's good wishes. Feng shui is far more than that. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people who have taken great pains to study this subject.
Besides yin and yang and five elements, geomantic omen also uses gossip. Eight trigrams are eight classics in Zhouyi. Li Zhou Guan Chun Zong Bo: The method of three changes of Zhang's servant, one is to connect mountains, the other is to return to Tibet, and the third is Zhouyi. All the classics are eight, and the rest are sixty-four. Gossip is a shock to Gan Kun. This was painted by our ancestor Fuxi. When gossip is repeated separately, it becomes sixty-four hexagrams. Gossip is very useful in Feng Shui. It not only represents orientation, family members, but also various phenomena, energy and different parts of the body around it. In short, it's complicated. People who change easily change. Zhouyi talks about the way of change. People who believe in death too seriously can't learn Zhouyi. The same is true of Feng Shui.
Simply put, gossip is a common attribute, orientation and corresponding relationship with family in Feng Shui. Dry exchange belongs to gold, Kun root belongs to soil, true smoke belongs to wood, Kan belongs to water and Li belongs to fire. Do it for the northwest and be the father and the Lord; Kun is from the southwest, his mother and housewife; Earthquake is the east, eldest son; Xun is from the southeast, the eldest daughter; Kan is the north, the middle man; From the south, for women; Gen 20: 10 is northeast, and it is a boy; For the west, for that girl. In the five internal organs, it is dry to the lungs and large intestine; Kungen is the spleen and stomach; Shock is the liver and gallbladder; The barrier is the kidney, including the bladder, urinary system and reproductive system; Separation of heart and small intestine. There are many more, so I won't list them one by one. The five elements also represent different directions and things, that is, the east, the fire in the south, the gold in the west, the water in the north and the Wuji soil in the middle. Only by mastering these, many people feel that their heads are big.
But to learn Feng Shui, you must memorize it. Otherwise it will be very confusing to use.
When I give lectures, I often emphasize that buying a house must be square, because of these factors. A square house is not only balanced by Yin and Yang, but also balanced by the five elements, and each family member has his own place. Lack of a certain direction will not cause problems for members. Suppose there is an old couple, three sons and three daughters in your family. Then everyone's position is: the man is from the northwest; The hostess is in the southwest; The eldest son is the east, the second is the north, and the third is the northeast; The eldest daughter is from the southeast; The second daughter is from the south and the youngest daughter is from the west. These four corners belong to each other. The absence of the northwest is not good for the host, the absence of the southwest is not good for the hostess, and so on. The absence of any direction is not good for any member.
This is really mysterious. The reason is that I feel angry.
From a big perspective, the northwest and the west are gold and gold doctrine, and people in the northwest and the west are often more generous and loyal; Fire is the main ritual in the south, and southerners have a sense of contract in doing business; The east and southeast are wood, wood is benevolence, and Confucianism, also known as benevolence, was born in the east. One side of the soil and water support one side. You can also see it from the color of the land. The north belongs to water, water is black, and there are many black soils in the north; The Central Plains belongs to soil, and the soil is yellow, so there are many loess in the Central Plains. The south belongs to fire, the fire is red, and most of the land in the south is red.
The wisdom of our ancestors was gained after looking up at the sky, overlooking the geography, observing the traces of birds and animals and the earth's words. It was also accumulated over thousands of years. We can neither be blindly superstitious nor blindly exclusive. It should be treated rationally.
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