Lillian Too giving the keynote address.
Dr Ho called on his experience
and knowledge as Hong Kong’s former Secretary of Home Aff airs in which capacity he came directly in contact with the widespread use of this Chinese art of placement, describing the many diff erent ways feng shui inputs were woven into the life of Hong Kong’s people. Dr Ho told the delegates that in this Special Administrative region of China, which used to be a British colony, few if any commercial and business decisions were ever made without solid feng shui inputs. Hong Kong, rather than China
today, is in many ways the ‘feng shui capital” of the world. It is on this tiny island where many of the world’s top practitioners live and work; and Feng Shui continues to be extensively practiced there. Feng shui continues to fl ourish and in recent decades has returned to China with a vengeance; this despite the occasional bad publicity generated by pseudo feng shui masters - an example being the late billionaire Nina Wang’s lover. In the 18th century, feng shui played a prominent role in expanding the fortunes of the powerful British hongs such as Jardine Matheson and the Hong Kong Bank. Today, almost all of the foreign banks and conglomerates that have branches or
representative offi ces here invite in the Feng Shui Master
to give inputs each time renovations are made to homes and offi ces. So feng shui in Hong Kong is not just a local thing. Feng shui is considered a very important input into management decisions, especially when CEOs decide on important product launches, transfers and special dates for making changes to company structure or strategy. But as Dr Ho so pointedly
and shrewdly observed, “As far as using feng shui is concerned, many people use it, but only very few admit to doing so.” Dr Ho even went so far as to describe some of these users of feng shui as hypocrites who outwardly condemn feng shui as superstition while secretly using its principles quite extensively. It was not surprising that when
I chatted with Dr Ho over lunch I discovered that while he very humbly professes to be “not much of an expert on the practice itself,” he is indeed very knowledgeable, and he is also an untiring promoter of its usage. He strongly advocates that City Planning and Architectural designing should take account of feng shui principles when mapping out layouts and land use. T is, he says, is what ensures that city buildings and usage would harmonize auspiciously with the natural surroundings, bringing
Grandmasters all, Tan Khoon Yong, Raymond Lo, Yap Cheng Hai, Lillian Too with President of the IFS Society Daren Ng.
prosperity and harmony to the city. Also at the Convention was
Raymond Lo, who is not only a paht chee veteran and author of several bestselling books on this subject, Grandmaster Raymond is also a very experienced and extremely knowledgeable representative of the feng shui industry. I took the opportunity at the Convention to catch up with topical feng shui gossip on the feng shui grapevine. It was also very nice to catch up
with Grandmaster Yap Cheng Hai, who is of course a very dear friend. I was so happy to see how well and healthy both he and his wife looked. He was very encouraging of my fi nally opening the door to Spiritual feng shui and in fact was quite praiseworthy of my decision to do so. Grand Master Yap, like other excellent feng shui masters of the old school is very adept in Spiritual feng shui and he is probably consulted more for this dimension of his knowledge, although he has kept most of his expertise of its methods, rituals and invocations quite secret. In the old days, we used to talk quite a bit about all three dimensions of feng shui, so I am presently encouraging him to pass on his knowledge and lineages of Spiritual feng shui also to his disciples as I am currently doing. From this perspective, the Convention was very fruitful indeed.
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