How to teach yourself Feng Shui?

Find a master, or you won't understand. Self-study can fool people, but you can't learn well. It is difficult to learn Feng Shui through books. Many people have the problem that these books are too painful to read and many sentences can't be read. Often there are more words you don't know than you know in one sentence. How to learn? Yes, I read it painfully, but I know why. Let's analyze why there is no way to popularize these traditional skills at present. As we know, the magic numbers handed down from China at present are basically derived from Zhouyi, a book of the Zhou Dynasty with a history of nearly 3,000 years. These books are what we ancient people called ancient prose. How can we ordinary people understand it? Secondly, the Book of Changes was handed down because of the protection of Li Si, the prime minister of Qin Dynasty, and was classified and preserved by divination books. In fact, I personally estimate that divination accounts for at most one-tenth of the Book of Changes, and Li Si should also know the meaning of this book, otherwise Li Si would not risk beheading for no reason to protect this book "only looking at houses and graves to tell fortune". Since the tricks come from Zhouyi, how can we easily find the tricks we want to learn from a pile of huge information? Simply put, can you draw a tiger easily by giving you a tiger tail? Therefore, if you don't understand the essence and theoretical thought of Feng Shui, you can't understand Zhouyi. Third, the Book of Changes has been annotated by experts throughout the ages, and various classics around it are endless, but experts are not gods no matter how high they are. Why should their labels be correct? All kinds of misleading must exist, so do we have the confidence and ability to falsify the truth? I can't anyway. Fourthly, we now have a translated version of Zhouyi, but it is also misleading, because ancient Chinese has many meanings. How to explain it depends on the translator's understanding. If the translator makes mistakes, what we have learned will be out of shape. How can I learn? Let me give you a small example: the first divination is to work for the sky.

Dry: Yuan, Heng, Li, Zhen.

Day 9: Hidden Dragon, no need. What do you mean, "Don't use the hidden dragon"? Most of the explanations in modern translation are "before the time is up, like a dragon diving into the abyss, you should save your strength and wait for the opportunity." Obviously, "no" here means "no". However, in ancient times, "no" had many meanings. You can find Shuowen and Jianzhou Banner by looking up Kangxi Dictionary. Such as its handle, there are three patrols, miscellaneous silks and half different, so it is interesting for the people, so it is called "don't". "Don't" here is the flag (pictograph. According to Oracle Bone Inscriptions, it looks like a tree flag. On the right is the handle and on the left is the ribbon. Original meaning: flag built in the state), the flag built by ancient doctors and scholars, half red and half white, is used to gather people, "in the state", and Duan Yucai's note: "in the state" means "scholar-bureaucrat".

Then "don't use hidden dragons" means: "People with morality and culture will gather people like a banner and get their support and love. And it can play a role as an example and guide everyone. " Is that all? Far more than that, let's look at Ji Yun (a book compiled by China in the Song Dynasty according to the phonetic arrangement of Chinese characters), "No, let's make it". It is also related to crops. "If you interpret the meaning of" don't "in Don't Use Hidden Dragons as" things ",it is very similar to what I understand. Later, it was verified in Zhengbian of Yuan Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty: "No, there is only this word in things, and later generations should add cows to distinguish it." "So, in my personal opinion," don't use hidden dragons "means" people who have the grace of heaven and earth and can understand the world will make use of everything to fully reflect the value of their existence. "Such examples are too numerous to mention in Zhouyi. Who do you think we should trust? How can we understand this wonderful book if we don't have a very solid foundation of China ancient literature, a very comprehensive condition and ability to collect information, and the ability to distinguish authenticity? Fifth, it is very important to learn from teachers. Originally, I didn't want to write this point, because there was a lot of pressure to write it, and there would be criticism of China at the core of this point, but if I didn't write it, my discussion on this issue would not be objective, so I would simply mention it. We must admit that although Chinese characters are extensive and profound, they still cannot accurately express the meaning in specific situations, such as: "You did a good job in this matter. "Different environments have different meanings. If we speak at the scene, we can hear the meaning, but we may not feel it after writing it down. A former Buddhist friend of mine once said, "Buddhist scriptures were not written by the Buddha, but recorded by his disciples." "But why is it difficult for future generations to understand the Buddhist scriptures? Because you didn't listen to the Buddhist teachings at the scene, you will unconsciously understand the meaning of the lecturers at the lecture site." I didn't really believe this statement at first, but then I thought about it carefully. For example, the same lesson preparation plan, different teachers attend classes, students' impressions and understanding will be different, and reading by themselves will be even worse. I dare not talk nonsense about Buddha. I believe his language appeal should be extraordinary. Learning Feng Shui is a very good thing, if you have a master to teach you. He can make you understand a lot of things unconsciously, but reading by yourself is another matter. At present, most of the major sects are taught by people, but it depends on luck to find an excellent master.