服食异物:以葛洪为例看修行者与自然的关系

Ingesting the Marvelous: the Practitioner's Relationship to Nature According to Ge Hong

通过彰显葛洪对自然的复杂态度,作者认为不管是自然环境,还是社会环境,葛洪及其信徒都不可能超越这个世界,最多是短时间摆脱尘世。相反,在向其目标迈进的每一步,都要感谢这个世界。所有超越这个世界的道路都只能在这个世界找到;通向彼岸的路始于此岸。由此,我们解除生态危机的最大希望是在政治行为的指导下,谨慎、周密地使用技术,从而折回到把我们带入这场危机的道路上去。

Through showing the complexity of Ge Hong＇s stance toward nature, the author thinks that Ge Hong＇s practitioner cannot transcend the world, and at most he just leaps clear of it in a single moment. On the contrary, he should be grateful to it at every turn as he labors toward his goal. All of the tracks leading beyond this world are to be found in this world; the only way to get There is from Here. Therefore, our best hope for a way out of the ecological crisis is to retrace the path that led us into it, relying on careful, thoughtful employments of technology guided by political action.