Feng Shui Lo 卢恒立 走遍江湖谁敢踢馆？

Originally published on Nanyang.com on 2008/04/20 13:47:35
报道：吴梅珍 摄影：王宥文

Feng Shui Lo，不是风水佬。
“作为一项沿袭几千年的民俗，风水一直没有离开过中国人的生活。” -->-->王鲁湘《文化大观园》风水篇里有这一段话，叙述风水及华人的关系。似是而非的观点，看似点出了中华人民的生活形态，可是，隐约中，又觉得这个观念有些出入。 风水……，活在华人的生活，但在风水研究上，外国人或者可以说是受英文教育的那一群人比华人还热中。 在书局工作的友人发现一个现象，本地英文著名风水作者Lillian Too的风水藉书，一个月总要不定期的补货，反之，中文版的风水书就乏人问津。 为什么换了一个语言，有心学道者日益壮大？ 一些著名的大公司总裁如微软的比尔盖茨到中国租房子，要先请风水先生帮他看过，才敢用。 大马也有一些以英文为媒介语的风水师红到美国去，而登上本周《人物志》的——卢恒立，就是英文派的风水师，扬名国际的Feng Shui Lo。新年，他是一众英文电视台如CNN的指定测流年运程的Feng Shui Lo。 外国人都有民族骄傲，而且世界上的许多国家，包括美国最著名的伯克利大学在1973年就开始招收风水博士班研究生了，由此可见，外国人对风水的钻研并不逊于华人，卢恒立以黑头发、黄皮肤的姿态脚踏在异国教风水，多年来，难道没有外国风水师到他的课堂上踢馆吗？ 微怔，可能因为是记者的问题有些唐突。 请原谅我是受中文教育的。英文世界的景物、花草，犹如隔了一重山，这位“传闻”在英文界很红的Feng Shui Lo，没有听过，何来“红”之说。 卢恒立朗声一笑。 “这就要看江湖地位了。外国人听到我的名字，都不敢来踢馆。哈哈——”（注解：卢恒立洋名Raymond Lo。更多人爱叫他：Feng Shui Lo/广东话译为：风水佬）

中文领域对他陌生

卢恒立曾在国际著名电视台如BBC、ABC、探索频道、CNN、澳洲电视台曝光的熟面孔，是洋人电视台爱用的风水“佬”，也是中文领域对他陌生的主要因素。因他都是在英文媒体平台上出现。 他也是第一个在网上设立英文风水网站的风水师。（CNN曾就这个课题访问过他）。 比其他讲英语的风水师多了一个优势是卢恒立是香港人，他懂得广东话。 香港人，用英文走遍、俄罗斯、日本、新加坡、澳洲、德国、越南、香港，然后声称没有人敢踢馆——这就是鸡和蛋的问题了！都不懂是师父沾徒弟的光，还是徒弟的光芒照拂了师父。（但，我懂，他的课程都是美金收费，每天课程收费是300美金。） 总之5千多个教学的日子过去了，卢恒立在国外播下的风水嫩苗，已茁壮成大树。 有者出书、有些开堂授课，有者受邀国际风水协会去演讲，其中一位杰出学生就是邻国的风水师Vincent Koh。 卢恒立是在1992年推出英文版风水书，陆续有人找上门拜师学艺。

八字决定风水路

走上风水先生这条路，无关祖传，只是从小对星座、算命特别好奇，大学时期才开始接触风水。 风水可以让“好”变得更“好”，坏变得“更坏”。 心想，如果我懂得风水，也要摆个“好”风水，让我变得有钱有名。于是，把心理的想法转问大师：“是不是风水令你这么红？” 明显的，卢恒立误解了问题，他答说：“除了这样，没有什么可以令到我出名的。” 他转弯，我煞车，转问他：“是不是你的八字决定了你必然是这条路呢？” 云淡风轻，似是不经思考，他淡然回应：“现在也觉得是。当时并没有想到会走上这条路。”所以在1997年，香港回归时，卢恒立的人生也有了很大的转折，他辞去了大公司管理层的工作，成了全职的Feng shui Lo。

如何分辨风水真伪？

分享一个人的学习经验，有时，诚如一个旅人在沙漠中口渴了，遇到经验丰富的商旅带你去寻找泉源……卢恒立学了3年风水，犹然飘游于风水是真假的浮盘中。 如何分辨风水中的真伪，风水师是否有料？ “风水很容易骗人，八字是不能骗人的。”大师的定论，要听。 “风水先生叫你怎么摆，你不懂风水的真伪，你不能指斥说他不对；但八字，你可以指出他的误谬。八字多多少少都会说到你的过往、健康，他一帮你批命，你就知道那位师父是不是有料的。”

风水师必然会八字

风水和八字有关？
“一个人纵然对风水没认识，但总有常识，你应问师父为什么要这样做。 风水离不开逻辑推理、阴阳五行的理论，所以你要问师父，直到他的理由让你满意，你才可以相信。” 判断一个风水师的“可信度”，卢恒立教说：“一个风水师必然会八字，如果某些风水师是全然不懂八字的，纵然懂风水，也是皮毛；反之，一个风水师，看八字很准，风水相信也差不到哪里。” 一命二运三风水，很多风水理论都是在命理中显现的，卢恒立的风水师必然懂八字推理就在于此。 八字透析 健康密码 遇到一个相师，必然会请他指点迷津，接着就会问：“准不准？” 准不准。 有时会想，重要吗？ 重要的不是在算命过程中吐露的“讯息”吗？ 3月及4月，无预期的遇到了两位相师，一位是CNN，还是很多国际著名英文电台曾经采访过的港产风水师Raymond Lo（卢恒立），还有一位是本地印度星象学家Dr Krisnan，不要问：准不准的问题。 譬如我将卢恒立的2009年是癌症年的说法拿去问Dr Krisnan，他说明年的健康运的确不好，非典型肺炎还有借水传播的病都会卷土重来。

八字如何减肥？

在《四柱八字保安康》中文版（卢恒立著）的引言中提到，八字可以减肥？真的吗？ 都是文字的误差。卢恒立说：八字不可以减肥，而是通过八字明白自己怎么去减肥。卢恒立引用了很多风水术语，火、水、土的……统统不重要。重要是的他说：2008年及接下来的年，是旺减肥者年；还有要小心食物中毒。

水旺是癌症预兆

2009年则是癌症高峰期。所以奉劝各位今年起要留意生活起居、饮食等习惯。因罗马不是一日建成、疾病也不是一日养成。要减少压力、多吃抗氧化食物，总之是预防胜于治疗。 每个人都有自己的健康“八字”，意思就是从一个人的八字中就能渗透出此人的健康密码，卢恒立简称它为：“人体健康报告书”或者是基因体，你相不相信，单从个人八字，就能预知一个人未来哪个器官较容易出现问题，加以防范，在还没恶化前就抑止“恶讯”发生吧！

如何逢凶化吉？

“大师，我行衰运？怎么办？”……卢恒立打了个比方。 一个人行衰运，必然是五行不平衡，而五行不平衡最先会打击到的必然是健康。 没钱不要紧，但没有健康就怎么都不行。 所以，卢恒立会教导的方法有三： 一个人走衰运，第一个要注意的事就是怎样保持健康。 第二，走衰运是五行不平衡，平衡的方法就是找一个人和你“合”。也就是找一个老公、生意伙伴或者是一只八字和你很合的宠物，五行欠水，可以找一只多水的狗。（啊！宠物和老公……卢恒立说：现代人对着宠物的时间可能比与老公相处的时间还长，所以宠物效应可能更强。唉！社会的悲哀） 第三是风水。“运气越差，越要靠风水。”大师将风水比喻成人体的免疫系统，当你的运程很好时，不管你的睡房风水怎么不好，你也是少感冒少病；但当有一天你的运程离去，你的免疫系统被攻袭了，小小的风水问题都会致命，所以当一天走衰运，更加要注意风水。 用玄学的方式去帮运，要做的就是这三大步骤。

Complains about Feng Shui Masters

I was going through the Internet today and stumbled upon a few posts on separate forums of clients complaining about the Feng Shui Masters that they have consulted. These Masters are actually very famous in Singapore and one even came from a family feng shui lineage. Thus, it comes as a big shock to me what their clients commented:

Posted by ANDREW1936 on February 13, 2005, 03:52:09 AM
“Hi, I just come across this website. I know I'm a bit late but would like to share my experience. A very bad experienced. Like you said, he charge expensive, I paid about $6K to $7K for my 3 storey terrace, guess what, I’m a bankrupt now. And he charge $288 each for my wife and my bazi, guess what, we’re divorced now. After moving in 1997, the very Chinese new year eve, I saw one of my 3.5m tall red bamboo tree turned black, I was terrified knowing it might be a sign of bad luck coming and guess what he advised? Just replace the tree. The very year my luck went down all the way and within the 3 years, everything are gone, lost about 3million and I'm a bankrupt now. I don't blame him totally, but this is what I got from his fengshui advised. I really puked and regretted and have only one sentence for you. NOT WORTH FOR THE MONEY PAID EVEN NOW HE PAID ME FOR HIS SERVICE.”

Posted by 3RLau on January 18, 2008, 01:25:02 PM
“Hi everyone. When I read the 1st posting on (Name of the master removed), I thought I was too late to advise/comment. U guys just relived & reminded me of (Name of the master removed). After reading, I felt I am a lesser fool. I paid less than $100 for him to advise me what types of career I am suitable & what to avoid. I got this deal through his sales promotion in 1987. I took the opportunity to evaluate him B4 I actually engaged him to set fengshui for my new house. Of course, I didn't buy his service eventually. He spent less than 10 minutes giving me less than 5 advises. When I requested him to explain 1 of the advices, he "tsk" and tell me I don't need to worry too much. Again, when I asked him how to improve my career luck, I’m not sure whether he had heard me or not, he didn't respond, gave me the face! As though I owed him a living. Then, he told me that was all he could advise. Oh, I have forgotten to mention, his bunch of girls in red, were also less friendly to be customer service. Mine was an appointment and I waited for almost an hour. But I didn't see anyone coming out of his room. If he reads this, perhaps he can use my/our comments as fengshui guide to see why he failed his business. Unfriendly, insincere, not enough knowledge, no business acumen is just some. No need fengshui 1st. Let's talk about business in the real world. You can't meet the 1st 2 quality, how r u to maintain friends, let alone customers. To him, this is my advice, is F.O.C.”

Posted by zookeeper (zookeeper) on Monday, November 26, 2007 - 12:23 pm
“Hi all, I would like to complain. Condemn this so called reputable fengshui master in Geylang. (Name of the master removed)! Even though this has happened for 3 weeks already but I’m still fuming mad as that idiot has given us the WRONG DATE! He actually wrote the wrong date on the consultation paper for us and silly us for believing him we happily booked our wedding dinner on that date.

My Future Mother in law went to see him before the tong shu was supposedly out. We immediately went to book the hotel that we like and a couple months later when the tong shu was out, I went online to check out of curiosity to see if the dates he has given us is good. And I was shocked to see that 20 Jan 08 is actually a very lousy date for marriage. It specifically said "Bu Yi Jia Qu"... so I went to ask him during our second visit as we need him to give us the timing to leave house etc.

I asked him how did he come up with the dates. He snapped at me very rudely immediately. Accused me of not trusting him but I said its weird that the tong shu will say that its not recommended for marriage, only then did he look at the piece of paper with the dates that he has written for us. He simply said, “oh I wrote wrongly”. And asked how come we didn’t check!!! At that point of time I jumped and yelled at him.
And he refused to apologize, insisted that its alright and he will pick a good timing for us. What kind of crap is this? Who wants a good timing on a lousy date? He rest assured me saying that don't worry I guarantee your marriage will be fine! I was farking mad at this point of time already. He’s already so old and 1 foot in the coffin. What can he guarantee? I didn’t mean to be nasty but his f#$% up and irresponsible attitude really made my blood boil. The last straw was when he told us not to be so pantang... if we are not pantang why would we pay $200 to go see him... he's ridiculous!

Forgive my ranting please but I think his actions needs to be highlighted here as I dun think he respects us as his client and he has no professionalism at all!”

Decoding Destiny With the I Ching

By Shoba Narayan
How to use this ancient Chinese divination tool to glimpse the future - and to better understand where you are right now.

Who wouldn't like to know what tomorrow holds? Every ancient culture, it seems, has devised methods to foretell the future. Europeans had their tarot cards, Native Americans had their cowrie shells, Japanese looked into tea leaves and the Chinese depended on the I Ching or the Book of Changes.

I was exposed to The I Ching as a young girl and remember being shocked by the accuracy of the answers. My question had to do with a boy I was attracted to. Would he ever like me back, I asked? After throwing a die, I was referred to a certain page which offered an answer, albeit a cryptic one: Wherever the sister goes, the brother follows. It was true. I befriended the boy's sister and soon enough, he became my boyfriend. I have been a fan of the I Ching ever since.

Written over 5000 years ago by a Chinese sage named Fu Hsi, the I Ching is based on eight trigrams, which look like three rows of three lines (---) one below the other, each of which means a different thing. Fu Hsi developed these trigrams based on his observation of nature and the correlations between different parts of the universe-heaven and earth, fire and water, wood and metal, yin and yang, creation and destruction. And therein lies the first lesson of the I Ching: Everything is interconnected.

Much of Taoist philosophy is based on this interconnectedness. The great Taoist scholars and sages could foretell events by observing seemingly unrelated elements. For instance, a crow's incessant cawing could indicate that a visitor was approaching. In the modern world, we call these omens and pay little attention to them. But as Chinese fortunetellers will tell you, "Just because you can't see the sign doesn't mean that it isn't there."

And therein lies the second lesson of the I Ching: In order to see the future, you have to have be deeply rooted in the present. In other words, you won't see any signs if you are haring around, all stressed out and overscheduled. You have to slow down a bit, observe the world around you and gauge what you see. You have to pick up on subliminal signs and allow your unconscious thoughts to flow through. As Carl Jung writes in his brilliant commentary on the I Ching, "I would sit for hours beneath the hundred-year-old pear tree with the I Ching beside me, practicing the technique by referring the resultant oracles to one another in an interplay of questions and answers. All sorts of undeniably remarkable results emerging alongside meaningful connections with my own thought processes which I could not explain to myself."

This point was driven home to me when I met Master Raymond Lo, an expert on the I Ching. Based in Hong Kong, Raymond Lo or Master Lo as he is called has written books and gives classes on feng shui, divination, and the I Ching all over the world including Singapore, Hong Kong, and the U.S. A smiling man with a gentle demeanor, he met me early one morning before going off for a day of private consultations. After we discussed the I Ching, he asked if I had any personal questions that I wanted an answer for. It seemed like an opportunity too good to pass up.

My husband and I had been talking about moving towns for a long time. We liked where we lived but wanted a few changes. We wanted to live closer to our parents because they were getting old, and offer our children a different school system. When prompted for a personal question, I immediately blurted, "Will we move?'"

Instead of divining, Master Lo smiled and said, "Let's try to improve the question, shall we?"

I nodded, wondering exactly what he meant.

"When you ask if you will move, do you mean that you want to move within the next one year or the next five years?" he asked.

"Within the next one year," I replied.

"Are you moving to seek an improvement or to escape a bad situation?" he asked.

"To seek improvement," I replied.

"Do you desire this move or is it being foisted upon you?" he asked.

"No, it isn't being foisted on us," I said.

"In other words, you desire to move to a new location within the next one year but want to know if the move will improve your situation or not," Master Lo said.

"Exactly," I replied.

In divining, whether it is through the I Ching, tarot cards, or tea leaves, half the answer can be had by simply framing the question to accurately reflect your circumstances. When you run into a psychic or a fortune teller next time, don't jump to ask the question. Reflect on your circumstance and figure out exactly what it is your heart desires.

Once I asked the question, Master Lo asked me to roll three Chinese coins three times and noted how they fell-heads up or tails up. Then he began an elaborate process of giving each combination of heads and tails a Chinese character with a yin and yang connotation, allotting each character with a specific element (there are five elements in Chinese philosophy; water, earth, fire, metal and wood) and doing some mathematical calculations to deduce which of those elements 'conquered' the other.

Ancient I Ching texts explain that this time taken to formulate the answer allows the subliminal subconscious elements to flow through. Many English I Ching translations advocate using bamboo stalks just like the ancient times rather than the quicker coin method. The idea behind it all is to tap into the intuitive, unconscious part of one's self in order to achieve the answer. This slow process of calculation also makes one open to the universe and its suggestions, they say.

Whatever the reason, Master Lo's answer to my question resonated with me. It was specific, and it offered reasons and solutions. You will not move house, he said, because you will lose money and are more attached to your current property than you think. All of which were true. We knew we would lose money with the move but wanted to do it anyhow. I knew I was attached to the current property which was why the move remained a decision we agonized over rather than merely execute.

I asked Master Lo if he referred to the I Ching to ask personal questions himself.

"Not often," he said. "The I Ching is remarkably accurate and one has to have the strength to stomach what it says because it may not be the answer you want."

My sentiments exactly.

It is possible to practice the I Ching anywhere in the world. You don't have to travel to China to use this particular oracle. There are excellent English translations available at almost any bookstore, so you can do the practice yourself in the comfort of your own home. That said, interacting with Chinese master like Raymond Lo taught me several invaluable things.

1. Take the time to formulate a 'good' question. Be specific about time frames (whether it is one month or one year or five years), about what it is that you desire (money, family, power, health, wisdom). As Master Lo explains, some questions ask one thing but imply another. When a person says, "Should I sell my house?" what he is really asking is whether he will make money on the transaction.

2. Follow all the steps explained in the book to get your answer. If possible, take the harder route, i.e., procure and use bamboo stalks rather than the easier coins as part of the process of getting answers. It will allow your mind to settle and your unconscious to simmer through.

3. Be prepared for the answer. It may not be the one you want. Test the answer to see if it works.

These three things will set you on the road to viewing the I Ching as a collaborator rather than as a mere book. They may get you started on the road that Carl Jung took when he came into contact with the I Ching. As your familiarity increases, you may choose to use the book every morning just to get in touch with your inner self, your psyche. Rather than using it to foretell your future, you may end up using it as a vehicle to get more in touch with your present. And that, as any Taoist monk will tell you may not be a bad thing.

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