fengshui – 1
July 30, 2008
i was listening to a whole half day of fengshui, ending the day with mixed feelings. In my mind, i was comparing fengshui (ie. external elements/environment) and inner work (ie. inner sense of self-will, consciousness). I couldn’t quite make up my mind which one has a bigger influence over which one. Maybe it’s the chicken-egg-puzzle — Mind controls our life more? or Environment more?
Though we always say both inner and external reflect each other, the question is, to change mindset first or change furniture/move house and let external change us? What if we choose to be ignorant about fengshui, and just concentrate on inner work? What if the pace or progress of our inner work is influenced by fengshui ???
Though the fengshui teacher never ‘anyhow’ suggests move house as a solution to a fengshui ‘problem’, many of our impulses prompt us to. We want a perfect house with perfect fengshui. Back to the habit of wanting ‘instant’ fixes.
People say Life/destiny is not fixed, and many paths of changing life bloom. Palmistry, oracles, fengshui, whole-foods supplements, healing gadgets, all sorts of psychotherapy, meditative trances, bioenergetics…
At this point of exposure, i can’t help standing a step back, and watch. Are we making more roundabouts in the supermarkets of healing tools, not anywhere getting nearer to the goal? Instead of being obsessive with mundane products, we ‘upgrade’ to obsess about supramundane products, but still with a mundane confused mind?
