Theories about "Nature" and "Practical Reflection" in Chen Bai-sha's Doctrine

Philosophy and Culture 31 (8):15-36 (2004)
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In this paper, Chen Baisha "natural", "contented" feature to explore the theme of thinking. White Sands was realized due to the nature of Heaven and the people was obvious and natural hair, Gu Yu in "Do not forget to help" the heart of efforts to go against the reason of the nature of this clarity, while the hair on the body to spend, to ensure the heart of this should be natural and reasonable thing. White Sands only emphasize that this is the heart of this point of Zhaoming Lang, is in their school stands for "Learning your contentment." White Sands so-called "contentment" of the school, covering the real meaning of the second floor, one for the main body for the pursuit of self-worth; Second, the main emphasis was the original mind fit and Heaven, heaven was. Pak to understand the "kite flying diving" is natural and full of Heaven, heaven naturally popular natural calamities, the school you in contentment, as the heart of this rationale in mind, and this quiet a guilty conscience that can recognize the body's movement popular with Heaven behavior of the follow, and then in Heaven with the natural, and attained the realm of natural contentment. This paper revolves around what marked Chen Bai-sha's ideas about "nature" and "practical reflection." Comprehending the natural presence and natural function of the heavenly way and the human mind, Chen intended to return to the natural clearness of the mind-principle in an insistent and indeliberate way, while in terms of the function of the entity, he had to make mind-principle natural and responsive to the world. With an emphasis on the obvious clearness of the mind-principle, Chen's doctrine advocated the "practical reflection as the key of learning. "His doctrine had two different meanings: first, the subject's pursuit of self-worth, and second, the emphasis on the correspondence between the subject's mind and the heaven's principle. Chen understood that the vivacious activities of things are the achievements of the way of heaven and the principle of nature, of which learning is reliant on practical reflection and the mind-principle. While the mind is empty, present, still, and pure, seeing the rules by which the heavenly way moved and rested, further identifying with the nature of the heavenly way, and reaching the status of "the natural" and practical reflection

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