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In 1986 when I met Frank and first heard about his fengshui teacher Lok, I asked Frank to introduce Lok to me.

Frank told me that Lok was sick and he would not be able to see anybody for another two and a half months. I asked why. Frank simply said Lok had to be sick for three months. I retorted, how could anyone know for how long he’s going to be sick? Frank said Lok knew he was going to be sick for three months.

And this is the story I was told.

Lok’s sister was married to a rich man’s son living in Hong Kong who originally came from a village in Kaiping County. About six months earlier, his sister’s father-in-law, the rich man, got sick and went to the hospital for a check up. They were unable to diagnose the cause of the pain in his stomach. This went on for several months; the rich man visited many famous doctors yet no one and nothing could cure his pain. His business was affected by his health, and so his son worried. Lok’s sister finally suggested that maybe there was something wrong with the family grave at home in Kaiping. As a last alternative, they called Lok and asked him to go and take a look.

Lok went to see the rich man’s parent’s grave and found that it was a very good spot except that one side of the grave had recently been washed away by water and sand from the top of the hill. He did some calculations and reported the result to his sister and her father-in-law. They were given two choices. One was to remove the grave; then the pain would stop immediately, but there could be a problem finding an equal­ly good spot. The other was to leave the grave alone; the pain would continue for another nine months to a year and then everything would go back to normal. The rich man, of course, did not want to continue his suffering. They begged Lok to find another good spot and remove the grave.

Lok spent some time looking and eventually found a suitable spot. This spot, however, was a danger­ous one – whoever did the burying would get sick for three months. Lok thought of hiring some other fengshui master to do it, but in the end, he was afraid that someone else would botch the burial by doing it at the wrong moment or to the wrong depth, and that would defeat the purpose of having a good spot. Finally he did the reburial himself and went home and got sick.

A couple weeks later, his sister’s father-in-law recovered.

At the time when I asked to meet him, he had been sick in bed for two weeks. And that was the reason I missed the opportunity of meeting him in 1986 when I went to Kaiping.