Divination and Guidance
Is learning Chinese chess divination only for telling other people’s fortunes?
English translation draft · Based on the Chinese article. This is not a word-for-word translation approved by Master Shengyuan.
Learning Chinese chess divination can help you too. When you encounter a problem, feel stuck and do not know the next step, I hope it offers a direction for understanding the situation. It can help you learn to judge whether to advance now or first hold your position.
Early on, I simply gave readings for others. Later, as perceptions and understanding developed, I also organised the messages, representative figures and deities associated with each piece. This work aimed to help people learn principles of spiritual practice through chess divination. Practice has no end to learning. As life advances, new problems still arise and require continued study.
That is why I value explaining complex things clearly and simply. Once you understand the pieces and can read and judge for yourself, you need not wait for someone else to tell you what to do about everything. Learning the ability makes it genuinely your own skill.
Understanding naturally also accumulates through experience. What you learn from going through situations yourself cannot be taken away by others. This is why I hope chess divination develops educationally. Beyond answering others’ questions, I want people to learn from it and use it to face their own lives.