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My Feng Shui researches 5 - Master Yau Sick Yum尤惜陰


Master Yau Sick Yum尤惜陰 was born in around 1872 and died at 1957. He was a teacher and writer before he became as a monk. “The new case study for house Feng Shui” was the name of his Feng Shui book.



In Feng Shui History, he was the first master who organized many case studies of house Feng Shui in a systematic way. He collected a lot of Feng Shui cases and used flying stars to explain the case. It was an important reference for the Feng Shui field. Many non-lineage masters have the confidence to claim themselves as a Feng Shui master after reading his book.



Master Yau was under the lineage of Master Tam Yeung Ng, this linage was carried on 4 generation by Master Francis Leyau in Malaysia now. 70% of famous Feng Shui masters were learning from Master Leyau in Malaysia. Even the top Feng Shui Masters in the western world, they are either direct or indirect learning from Master Leyau.



I met Master Leyau on 1991, although we were not in the same lineage but when we first met in Malaysia, he spent the whole night with his students to chat with me and my students in my hotel room. We exchanged some of our point of views in difference Feng Shui Theories. We also did some research together in Malaysia and Hong Kong in the past. Even his students graduated, he invited me to sign the certificates as the witness. That is the common issue for a lineage graduation.









Since Yau Sick Yum尤惜陰did a lot of research in Feng Shui, more or less it affected Master Leyau, he also did a lot of research himself. You can see most of serious Feng Shui Master would not sit in the office to do their research; they do it on site.



The temple we visited was the last destination of Master Yau Sick Yum; his Buddha name was Yin Poon. He lived in the small house where we were. His signature was still in the outside of the house. The house was backing on the mountain and overlooks the temple.





Inside the temple, there is the memorial hall of Yin Poon. Although Buddhism was not encourage talking or using Feng Shui, but a lot of temples was fit for Feng Shui Theory. If Yin Poon was a famous Feng Shui Master before he became as a monk, do you think that he would not use Feng Shui to help his temple? Therefore study the temple was studying his knowledge.



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