中国佛教的和谐理性模式——从“心”开始的功德本体论

The Harmonious Rational Mode of the Chinese Buddhism——The Merit Ontology Beginning from the "Heart"

中国佛教从“心”开始,讲求的是一种方法论,构建一种心心相印的和谐理性模式。它强调的“同其心而和合为尚”的“价值关联模式”,能够为不同的国家、民族和宗教信徒,提供一个处理国家、社会、个人和群体之间的基本理路。它能够从自心净化到心心相印,从心心相印到心系众生、回报社会。在此观念和信仰体系之中,既有本体观念,亦有公共逻辑,两者的整合,建构了从“心”开始、功德为本体的价值规范,构成了本文提出的“功德为本体的公共逻辑”。

Beginning from the ＂heart＂, the Chinese Buddhism is seeking for a methodology to construct a harmonious, rational mode of the heart-to-heart communion with each other. And the so-called ＂mode of the interrelated value＂ of the ＂friendly mind and harmonizing first＂ supplies different countries, peoples and religious disciples with the fundamental rationality dealing with the relationship among the state, society, individual and collective. From the ＂purifying oneself ＂ to the ＂heart-to-heart communion＂ and then to the ＂heart tied to all mortal beings＂, all these set up an ethical order that takes the Buddhist believing as the core. In the system of the doctrines, there are both ontology and public logic. And the integration of the both constructs valuable norms that begins from the ＂heart＂ and takes merit as ontology, that is, the ＂public logic taking merit as ontology＂ put forward by this essay.