《道德经》对内丹的指导意义

The Guiding Significance of Dao De Jing to Inner Alchemy

《道德经》是内丹的重要思想源头,后世内丹家们在《道德经》哲理的指导下,把内修技术发展成为内丹术,进而提升为内丹学,成为中华民族传统文化中一颗璀璨的明珠,为中华民族的生命健康立下了巨大功勋。具体地说,道的本体论确立了丹的基本内涵,并转化为价值观,为伦理观、性的概念和性功奠定了基础。道的本源论为功夫论奠定了基础,修炼即本源论的逆用和丹的生成。《道德经》的辩证法为内丹修炼中先天与后天、顺与逆、颠倒等概念提供了理论框架。《道德经》有关生命和理想人格的思想则对内丹生命观和仙真的修炼目标观提供了思想源头。反过来说,内丹具体地演绎了《道德经》的哲理并从人体生命的保护、滋养、提升、改造的角度证实了《道德经》哲理的正确性和思想的指导性意义。

Under the guidance of the philosophy of Classic of the Way and Its Virtue,the important ideological source of inner alchemy,Taoist alchemists develop internal cultivation into inner elixir,a bright pearl in the traditional culture of the Chinese nation,and make a considerable contribution to the life and health of the Chinese nation.Specifically,the ontology of Classic of the Way and Its Virtue establishes the basic connotation of elixir and transforms it into values,which lay the foundation for ethics,the concept of sex and sexual drive.The origin theory of Dao lays the foundation for the theory of Kong Fu.Cultivation is the reverse use of the origin theory and the generation of elixir.The dialectics of the book provides a theoretical framework for the concepts of the innate and the postnatal,harmony and opposition,inversion and so on.The thought of life and ideal personality in the book provides the ideological source for internal elixir’s view of life and immortals’view of cultivation goal.Conversely,internal elixir specifically interprets the philosophy of the book and confirms the philosophy of the book from the perspective of the protection,nourishment,promotion and transformation of human life.