ERRORS IN COMPASS DATE TECHNIQUES.

Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem, Attacks Compass Methods

In the previous article it is noted that Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem, attacks the Compass schools' use of the 24 Mountains as a water method to determine the auspiciousness of a site.

The rejection of the Compass schools' 24 Mountains water method was made by a commentator about Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem

• More is believe different saying and foolish right word.
  So is produce new inauspicious and disappear own fortune.
  If not mountain auspicious water auspicious cave auspicious.
  Why have a lot of disaster.
  How can it be known year inauspicious month inauspicious day inauspicious.
  Violates it to deceive certainly.
  Comment to Xue Xin Fu Book 2, Chapter 5).

The passage relates to the Luan Tuo determination of the auspiciousness of the mountain, water and hsueh. However, people were adopting a different method which Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem regarded as a foolish method which can destroy the good fortune of the site. This dangerous different method involved the use of date selection, a popular technique in the Compass schools.

There are a wide range of "Date selection" methods in the Compass schools. Examples of those pertaining to the auspiciousness of the site are as described briefly below:

• 1. 8 Mansions: based on the birth dates, people are classified into East and West groups. It is claimed that houses with East facings will be auspicious for those of the East group while West facings will be inauspicious for them.

  2. Both Xuan Kong Fei Xing and Xuan Kong Liu Fa have different contradictory calculations methods to determine the auspiciousness of a site. There are the Fu Ma San Ban Gua series, Zheng Shen and Ling Shen, Fan Fu Yin, etc. There are differences due to different ways of calculating the Yun periods.

  3. In Yin Feng Shui, a narrowness as small as 1 degree can be used to determine installation dates to make a tomb site auspicious.

All these date methods are rejected by Xue Xin Fu, Snow Heart Poem as dangerous foolishness capable of destroying good fortune.

Continue Reading...

tags: Feng Shui
Countesy: Prof. Dr. Ong Hean-Tatt