Secret Formula: Going Once, Going Twice, SOLD!

How much would a secret formula in Fengshui worth? One of the notable Fengshui trainer informed that he had paid as much as 40,000.00 Euro for a script called, Jing Kou Jue or Golden Oral Transmission. Sounds very tantric. With this special weapon in hand, an academy was born. Interesting enough, his thirst for knowledge especially the exoteric ones are much admirable. It will not be too surprise to note that he is a much talk about Fengshui Icon in town and to my surprise he has many researchers who make him as a topic of dissertation, which include one in the FiveArts.net, which the old photos of apprenticeship in Canada or Singapore, not Hong Kong (again surprising!) had been included. Because formulas could be bought with money, there is no reason for a lineage to be held. So, the birth of non-sectarian, non-lineage school of Metaphysics was born.

School of this nature is practical, especially more to the English speaking communities. It doesn’t contain craps, although there is another one in town, propagating the crap philosophy as notice in the alter ego blog (drop me a mail and I will tell you which). It is even more practical when the arts of Fengshui have been dissected in parts almost piecemeal. The good thing is it is easy digestible but almost impracticable in application. It comes with a high price tag similar to the original investment put in by its proprietor. This is termed return of investment (ROI).

There is no guarantee whatsoever that the student would had master what was taught, although some of the tagline comes with the adjective of mastery. Given a normal distribution assumed hypothesis, 80% of the students would understand 20% of what has been taught in class. So it will be a hypothesis that most of the student is confused. No doubt, confusion is the path to enlightenment, so by the time the student engaged on the right track, one would have squeezed out of one’s last penny, for reasons that these courses were dissected in parts, by the commercially driven ones. Then, it becomes true that one has to be forgiving and compassionate to these schools of Fengshui. Anyway, who say Fengshui

study is a cheap hobby and it is a fact that it is a lucrative crossed border industries that in some instances, it may also escape the eye of the Inland Revenue department?

So, will there be secret formula offered for sale and at what price? There are many masters who are of a low profile. Because they understand that Fengshui is like a candle, sacrificing oneself to enlighten other people’s path. How many great grandmasters of Chinese Metaphysics of the olden days had a good death? These practitioners maintained a simple living conditions, some maintaining a simple blog or website, others don’t even know how to blog. They are good only in catching dragon spot. They may have secret formula for sale?

Usually these masters minus the bells and jingles in “clown-suits”, one would see in some Chinese websites, has provocative thought inserted in their articles, trying to salvage the “corpse” that had been sucked dried by the commercially driven schools of metaphysics, almost liken to the undertakers. Not surprisingly, for they too deal a lot with undertakers in their normal working arrangement. This reminded me of a Zen master saying, if it is not me who will be in Hell to salvage your soul, who else will?

Personally speaking, I would have reckoned that the time is running out for the better masters to depart what they knew before they are 6 feet under. It will also be of their Karma that they may not live long enough or rather burn-out for brightening up others path. The younger one or the cloned master with the involvement of even a semi professional called "marketers of Fengshui" have many time to re-invent themselves, with better courses, better excursions, better promises, or teamed up with the older and bushier white haired grandmaster and even better tag-line liked, Fengshui for.... whatever or Xuan Kong 1,2,3… Fa? Aged masters like these may have something to offer? It is going once, twice and fast selling…

So, next time when a drag net is sow in disguise as a class, seminar, course, module, packages, symposiums and talks by the commercially driven school, take notice of who are the “fishes”. It may be you and me, especially comes the New Year Astrological Prediction and promotions, some even comes as a complementary tickets to fill up the seats so that the picture will look impressive over its web pages. Do you think there is a secret formula offer for sales at these festivals of Fengshui?

It will also be quite a pity for those who do not read Chinese, but has the interest to master such Chinese art. The syllabus that laced these courses is most likely found in the Chinese written books of the same subject that cost almost 10% of the fragment for the entire course. Even better as the so called English Almanac (Tongshu) costs 300% more then the Chinese versions made available at the cost of RM10+ in most of the Chinese bookstore or Sundry Shop. By the same token, the so called secret formula that once famed with mystical names such as 6 punishment water, water dragon and white tiger Sha are nothing but created theories, so that more courses could be offered and even more money can be made. Ultimately, who’s Fengshui would have been better, the school’s or the students’?

The Disney movie called Kung Fu Panda has been screened at the right time for this article, for the dragon scroll contain no word. Similarly the secret formula is no formula. The validity again is in the application, not the formula.

This is my secret formula for sale. Any taker?

Ar. David Yek Tak Wai