Is Feng Shui superstition or a science? I was taught that Feng Shui was people’s superstition when I was growing up. But for some reason, I was drawn by its mysteriousness. Upon the added experience in life, I’ve learned to think of Feng Shui as the wild western frontier to the established science.
In my opinion, if something cannot be proven by scientific methods, it cannot be rendered as superstition. In a scientific way, this thing is only unexplainable at the moment. Perhaps, at a later time, our science will have the capability to prove its validity. What really irked me is a lot of the so called science based people would simply dismiss the possibility that such item can ever be an object of science. I think such behavior is indeed an unscientific way of dismissing a lot of the future potentials. It is also a disrespect to our ancestors. Thousand-year-old practices such as Feng Shui has to have some validity to have many nations’ top scholars in the past to study and utilize in their every day practice. Call it a superstition is simply renouncing the way how our ancestors used to live!
Feng Shui is a science of the invisible “luck” element which is so visibly present in everyone’s daily life. Our ancestors discovered that there are ways to increase our chances of better fortune by aligning ourselves with the universe. One analogy I read about which I thought was quite astute describes the science of Feng Shui roughly as follows:
In driving, the red traffic light tells you when to stop at an intersection. In an average person’s life, there is no traffic regulations, one simply keeps on living one’s usual routine even if one is up against odds. Feng Shui helps one to navigate more efficiently and successfully through the streets of life.
Why there are a lot of people don’t believe in it? Because, a true Feng Shui master is hard to come by. What we see in bookstores, or most often we encounter a so called Feng Shui master, is not the genuine Feng Shui. Feng Shui science is too “holistic” or too complicated for everyone to understand. The true knowledge of Feng Shui cannot be learned by books alone. For those who blindly follow these kinds of Feng Shui, it is a practice of superstition.
