History of Feng Shui - Thousands of Years Old

Feng Shui History – Began in Rural China

The history of Feng shui is a story founded in rural China thousands of years ago. According to the Book of Burial by Guo Pu, "Qi rides the wind (feng) and scatters, but is retained when encountering water (shui). The ancients collected it to prevent its dissipation, and guided it to assure its retention. Therefore, it was called Feng Shui. According to the laws of Feng Shui, the site that attracts water is optimum, followed by the site that catches wind. The Chinese developed and believed that buildings were affected by their surroundings of hills, valleys, mountains, water and so on but it is thought the origins and philosophies are older. In Feng Shui, a home and family were lucky if they were blessed to be placed in the most auspicious surroundings. The position of their home in relation to their surroundings had an affect on the wealth, health and relationships of the family members to others. The Chinese, through Feng Shui concluded that having balance and harmony in the environment one lives and works, would extend itself into abundance and prosperity. If you change the surroundings, you change your life. It was not always possible to have a home placed in an ideal location. When a less than auspicious placement occurred, Feng Shui cures were sought to change the flow of energy.

Feng Shui has taken on many schools of thought through the years using religion, philosophy, architecture, numerology, math and astrology, symbolism, superstition, and many more aspects of various cultures throughout the centuries. The history of Feng Shui begins at a very basic level of understanding how the world relates to the Universe as a whole and every living thing and object. Anyone that has researched Feng Shui history knows that this level of interaction between all things is the theory of chi. There have been Feng Shui masters for centuries but only in the last few decades has there been much written about Feng Shui. The masters would teach Feng Shui from their philosophical school to their students through the spoken word only. This has changed as Professor Lin Yun gave instruction to students to write about the teachings of Feng Shui. Professor Lin Yun brought Black Sect Tibetan Tantric Buddhism Feng Shui to the West. Professor Lin Yun learned traditional Feng Shui as a young boy in a monastery in China. He was taught Black Hat traditions and methods by a Tibetan Buddhist lama as well as other well-known masters. Practicing Black Hat Sect Feng Shui is easy because it is full of common sense ideas. Feng Shui has taken the path from India through Tibet and then to China. The theory of yin/yang, Taoism, other philosophical and religious practices encompass Feng Shui practices today.

The course of human life is that of a great river which, by the force of its own swiftness, takes quite new and unforeseen channels where before there was no current-such varied currents and unpremeditated changes are part of God’s purpose for our lives. – Rabindranath Tagore

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