Painful Journey

Learning and practising the chinese metaphysics such as feng shui and bazi is an uphill task. The journey is very painful, agonising, frustrating and costly. Why? Because :

- the more you learn, the more you found that alot of things you don't know and hence need to know more.
- every master has his own school of thoughts. Thus, it contradicts with what you have learnt previously.
- every master tells you what he teaches is correct.
- almost every master hides some secrets. They only teach you 90%. The rest you have to split your hair to find out the whys.
- the subject is abstract. Need to think in 4 dimensions.
- need to read chinese classical texts or literatures or commentaries which are, most of the times, written in archaic chinese.
- need to pay high fees to top teachers (can do an MBA in an Ivy League university).
- need to pay for travelling and accommodation as the top teachers are based overseas.
- need to sacrifice social time.
- need to cajole your boss to allow you to take leave for courses.
- need to console wife or girlfriend and seek their understanding that you are not able to accompany them for a few days.
- need to verify the theories that you have learnt with lots of real case studies.
- need to have the perseverance if not will have to give up halfway.
- need to take MC and incur medical expenses after the course if it is too heavy and complex. The pace that the master teaches is usually very fast and you need to pay 101% attention.
- high level of analytical skill required which often messes up the wirings in my brain.
- it is a never-ending learning process because there are so many systems in feng shui to learn. It is analogous to a mathematic which not only have E, A, C and F maths but in it you also have to learn algorithm, algebra, applied mechanic, calculus and etc. At the end, you got to put them together.
- besides Feng Shui, in order to be a better consultant, one probably has to also learn about bazi, face reading, I-Ching, date selection and etc. All equally heavy weight subject and all are interlinked. This also translates to more investment.
- emotionally and pyschologically may be affected if you become more skillful in reading your future or anything related to your family.
- low morale when your feng shui does not work.
- angry when you found out your previous teachers did not teach the complete stuff.
- need to explain alot to people about the type of feng shui that I practise is classical vis-a-vis new age type...blah blah blah.
- need to get everybody's buy-in if not will run into the risk of kena ostracised.
- need to always explain that this is a science and not a supersition or religion blah blah blah.

So much sorrows and pains and then why am I still in it? Hmm, simply put, there is a calling.

Luckily, I think I have gone through the ordeal.

There is an immense satisfaction especially the things you predicted came true or you manage to help someone to improve on their quality of life.

I was being helped by feng shui too. If not, I do not think I can be sitting here doing up my blog.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank some of the wonderful teachers and masters who have imparted their precious knowledge to me. Without them, my skill would not have increased by quantum leap within such a short timeframe.