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Black Sect Tantric Buddhist Feng Shui
as taught by Professor Lin Yun
A Calligraphic Blessing By Grandmaster Professor Thomas Lin Yun
As I lecture and travel around the world, I have the pleasure of witnessing the rapid “globalization” of Black Sect Tantric Buddhist perspectives on Feng Shui, with its sympathetic practitioners found among people in villages, towns and cities across national, cultural and religious boundaries. The increasing popularity of the Black Sect Tantric Buddhist School of Feng Shui testifies its ability in adding a transcendental dimension, based on modern interpretations of traditional Chinese folk wisdom, to our mundane everyday life.
I owe my appreciation to many of my disciples who have written many books to make my theory on the Black Sect Tantric Buddhist School of Feng Shui more accessible to various circles of the western public. An experienced Feng Shui consultant, Michael Silverman, is adding another valuable volume to the literature. He is uniquely qualified to demonstrate in this book why the Black Sect Tantric Buddhist School of Feng Shui is easier and more productive to use than other traditional schools. By combining theories from Yi, Ling, and the Black Sect Tantric School of Feng Shui, this book makes useful contributions to both beginners and seasoned Feng Shui consultants alike. I sincerely hope that Michael Silverman will write a sequel to systematically compare the theories and practice of the Black Sect Tantric Buddhist School of Feng Shui and other traditional schools.
I reiterate that I do not reject traditional schools on Feng Shui; my own theory is embedded in tradition and yet not unduly bound by it. Two points are noteworthy. First, while the Black Sect Tantric Buddhist School of Feng Shui incorporates traditional emphasis on the shape (Xing) of an object, it also further accentuates the spiritual visualization of ideas, wishes and intentions (Yi). The wholesome synthesis between Ying (Yi) and Yang (Xing) makes the Black Sect Tantric Buddhist School of Feng Shui more powerful. Second, while Black Sect Tantric Buddhism represents a reformist sect of Buddhism, its perspectives on Feng Shui does not give particular primacy to religiosity. The Black Sect Tantric Buddhist School of Feng Shui develops practical applications from the Book of Change (Yi) and from traditional geographical surveying, but inasmuch as such benefits are too pressing and plentiful to wait for a life-long scholastic study of the Book of Change itself, we have sought to bring out as many practical applications as our understanding allows. Since we are not rigid about religiosity, practitioners are urged to visualize their own deities where religious aspects are involved.
As Chinese tradition of respect for teachers is gradually receding in Greater China, I truly appreciate the strong loyalty that many of my students and disciples all over the world, including Michael Silverman, have shown me. They embody two Chinese proverbs: “The green stems from and is better than the blue”; and “They think of the fountainhead when drinking a drop of water.” Even though many of them have become established authors, they have been so gracious as to give my theory much credit. They have shown us the Chinese way (Tao), a virtue being lost in its homeland. I congratulate Michael Silverman for his achievement.
Lin Yun
July 2001
Written at Zi Hong Sun (or Purple Rainbow Study – the private study of Ms. Crystal Chu, CEO of Yun Lin Temple and Lin Yun Monastery), Berkeley , California
Translated by Professor Lee Jin-chuan
Did you ever go into a home or office and felt that the room didn’t have any energy?
When you enter an office for a meeting and sit down do you ever feel uncomfortable?
There could be an answer, and that answer can probably be found in Feng Shui.
It is important to try to feel this Feng Shui. To do this, we need to know something of the where, what, and why? Why what? I don’t know.
Feng Shui (pronounced fung shway) is the ancient
Chinese science of geomancy, a science that tries to help us live in harmony
with the environment in order to derive its benefits.
As a tool, it’s been in existence for nearly 5000 years -- about as long as
people any where in the world have lived in houses.
It teaches how to find the benefits of an environment, improve the good influences,
choose your most comfortable place, while training you to slow down – or ward
off -- the harmful elements present.
It’s been said, recently, that if you could understand the coincidence in life, we would understand everything; all the secrets. I don’t understand the coincidences, no one does. What can be seen is the connection, the action, not the force that produces it. What we’re talking about here is noticing the connections. After close to 5000 years of following the connections, with periodic adjustments, Fung Shui still works.
Feng
Shui literally means "wind - water," and is said to have originated about
4850 years ago by China’s first legendary emperor, Fu Hsi (2852 BC). The legend
says Fu Hsi was sitting on the bank of the Lo River, and a tortoise emerged
from the water. The tortoise’s shell was divided into eight sections, and there
appeared to be a symbol in each section.
According to Chinese myth, these symbols became the original eight Trigrams
of the I-Ching, the book used for recommending a path in life to follow. About
3000 years ago the order of these trigrams were changed by King Wen, a great
philosopher and the founder of the Chou Dynasty, and that began the Later Heaven
Sequence.
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