FengShui Basic - XuanKong Classics

The celebrated poem of XuanKong comes in 4 components as the following: -

1. Purple White Script (紫白诀)

2. Ode to Mysticism (玄机赋)

3. Ode to Flying Stars (飞星赋)

4. Secrets of XuanKong (玄空秘旨)

Hung HinCheong has written a series of marvelous translation on these 4 classics and is now available in the market. The notable gist of these translations was the appended commentary which is the summarized commentaries from the various Chinese sources available. Therefore, it is some sort of mass market knowledge available for consumption. The caveat is how reliable is this information as pertaining to true application of XuanKong? 

Take for instance, Purple White Script (紫白诀) which believed to have been the foundation of Flying Star. Shen JuRen 沈竹礽 school of thought uses only the Lower Scroll. Tan YangWu denounces Flying Star outright in favor of LiuFa 六法. Yet, not many people actually look at Kong ZhaoSu 孔昭苏 school of thought for an alternative. 

Ode to Mysticism (玄机赋) and Ode to Flying Stars (飞星赋) were written with an 8 mansion BaZhai (八宅) undertones, concealed as a Flying Star classic. So, misinterpretations are common. 

For example, Ode to Flying Stars (飞星赋) script 15: If one get infected by disease at a brothel, it is only because 7 and right assistant (9) are joined by Yellow (5); immediately we ought to think it is 7-9 with the monthly 5 visiting which will caused STD. How often would one get 7-9-5 with all the visiting annual, monthly and daily stars keep changing? This passage is only talking about 5 Ghosts in 8 mansions 八宅. 

There is really no rush about dwelling in theoretical FengShui such as these when the fundamental is missing. Ultimately, it is the fundamental that is working and while we can argued till the cow goes home, we learnt very little of how to receive ShengQi.