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United we stand, Divided we fall!
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Penn & Teller show – Feng Shui
Chinese Metaphysics, or what layman know as Feng Shui, is often ostracized by non-believers for instigating people to believe in superstition and supernatural when scienctific explanations would have been much more convincing. As such, it has led to a plethora of attacks on the Feng Shui practice, like what the TV hosts Penn & Teller has sought to achieve in their show.
It is very easy to discredit a practice like Feng Shui because Metaphysics is defined by Wikipedia as “investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science”. When it transcends science, how many mortals can understand it and explain it convincingly to detractors?
Feng Shui is not superstitious. It merely looks superstitious because it is beyond science and hence science cannot explain it and neither can humans. How do you expect a kid to explain the action of his parents? Since Feng Shui transcends science, one cannot get a satisfactory explanation of Feng Shui using scientific principles.
Furthermore, the development of the Feng Shui practice has not been helped by its followers. A lot of the followers of Chinese Metaphysics and Feng Shui are Chinese themselves. Throughout the history of China, Chinese has demonstrated a streak of selfishness and tendency to fight within themselves. For example, Chinese Medicine has a history of more than 2000 years old which is several times older than that of Western Medicine. Yet, the world has embraced Western medicine as the defacto source of cure and they cannot envisage that Chinese Medicine has cures that even Western Medicine do not possess.
Another example of this self-destruction among Chinese is the penchance to try to outperform or discredit fellow enthusiasts or practitioners in the field of Chinese Metaphysics. Frequently we see incessant criticisms and attack by a person on another person or group practising or following another method which he viewed as as a rival faction. Like the Penn & Teller show, it is too easy to find an obscure example or clever manipulation of the environment or parameters to discredit a Feng Shui practice.
If even Feng Shui enthuasiasts and practitioners can be going all out to discredit someone with the same beliefs, what more outsiders who are like Penn & Teller? Sometimes I wish fellow enthusiasts in Chinese Metaphysics wisen up and not be the proverbial “divided loose grains of sand”. If we help each other in this interest group or profession, Chinese Metaphysics & Feng Shui as a whole stands to gain. We as enthusiasts and practitioner of the same field stand to gain too. After all, one famous Chinese saying by the victimized Cao Zhi in the Romance of the 3 Kingdom goes “Why cannibalize one that is of the same family?”
How can we help each other? By treating fellow practitioners and enthusiasts as allies and suggest areas of weakness as points to consider for improvement. By not treating fellow practitioners and enthusiasts as rivals and going all out to attack one perceived point of fallible practice or advocate.
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