FENGSHUI MIX RELIGION OR SPIRITUALISM?

Question:

My brother brought in a FengShui master, draped in a similar “Chinese Opera” costumes with YinYang symbols. He even has his eye-brow painted exactly like those from the opera. He uses a LuoPan but he seems not to use is to measure. He feels his way through the house liked he knows everything and the moment he spotted our Beemer, he said this to my brother that the house does not bring luck to the male occupants but to the female siblings. He continued to say that many things have to be modified including the ancestral tablet. Has FengShui got to do with Daoism Practice or Religion?

Answer:

The “master” that your brother has engaged are most likely from the Temple. They are mediums who can communicate with the paranormals, which we sometimes referred to as gods (small G). These are intuitive FengShui that based solely on paranormal means beyond our day to day logics. We do not doubt their efficacy and results. Neither do we question their abilities. However, we only keep in view of their ability for other means beyond the call of the five elements, for example, ghost busting, initiation of the altar and the statutes of the deities, prescribing talismanic cure for paranormal events in poltergeist and others. We called this services pertaining to the Dao of the Deities. We also use these services for house cleaning and so on, which we shall not discuss in detail, in this blog.

However, true FengShui practitioners, does not need to be: 

1) Transform into an opera “singer”
2) Uses the LuoPan as an ornament, not a tool.

As we do not investigate your brother’s house FengShui, we reserved to comment on this aspect. But rest assured that FengShui and BaZi, do not involve religion or the practice of Daoism, spiritualism or medium. It is purely an art of the 5 elements so as similar to what being practiced in the Chinese traditional medicine or Chinese painting and calligraphy. However, in our case, the living environment becomes our canvas.