《高级听力教程》 Unit 5 Part 4 Page 239

何为风水

对话：What Is Good Feng Shui?

What Is Good Feng Shui

F: When you walk into a building, are you able to sort of immediately sense whether is has good feng shui or not, a good flow of the chi?

M: Yes, and so are you. Anytime you walk into any room, you get a feeling about it, whether you feel good about being there or not so good. So everyone has experienced good feng shui. Anytime they've walked into anybody's home or even an office where suddenly they think, “Oh, this is pleasant. I feel good.” You know, may be their mood's a little pepper or maybe they're more relaxed, whatever. It's just a positive reaction you get when you're in the midst of good feng shui.

F: So, feng shui is exactly a way of ordering buildings, rooms, corridors in your life to keep out evil spirits?

M: Well, I wouldn't say to keep out evil spirits. That sounds so superstitious. But I would say, it's a system of arranging all the objects around you at home or at work in such a way that they are in harmony and balance with nature in the way that feng shui teaches us to do, then, therefore, you are in harmony and balance, and so is your life.

F: Now this is something that's very important in Asia. In fact it's part of the architecture of buildings, how the staircases go up, where buildings are aligned. But what is your particular interest in it? You sound as if you have a Scandinavian background. I mean, is feng shui something important in Scandinavia?

M: Well, there's a huge digression coming. My name is Scandinavian. I was named for a Norwegian opera singer. I identify as Irish, though. So I don't know it there is any feng shui in Scandinavia. But their designs are so clean. I would suspect so. Yes, feng shui is huge in Asia. I believe it's practiced widely in China, even thought it’s officially frowned upon as a superstition. But it’s also huge here in the building project without a feng shui matter than he would without a feng shui master than he would without a seismologist to tell him that the building would stay up in an earthquake. That’s because these observations that amount to feng shui have developed over thousand of years.

F: That’s quite true, as far as I know.

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