意义重估与禅学思想体系的确立

Re-estimation of Significance and Establishment of Zen

相对于传统佛学,禅学完成了两大转变,第一是由义学走向心学,第二是由出世走向入世。这两个转变彻底改变了传统佛学的发展方向,但其整个过程又显得顺理成章,符合佛学发展的内在逻辑。其中,禅学特有的思想方法发挥了重要的作用,这就是意义重估。一方面,在生命主体和世界的关系方面,禅学坚持了传统佛学强调意义把握的基本走向,并且贯彻得更为自觉、彻底,最终确立了主体在意义把握中的本体地位,突破了传统佛学非本体化的哲学倾向。另一方面,禅学也更为彻底地坚持了般若扫相的中道方法,最终完全肯定了现实世界和人生的存在意义。

In contrast to traditional Buddhism, Zen has experienced two major shifts. The fast is from Buddhism doctrine to study of heart and the second from “into the world” to “out of the world”. These two shifts have changed the direction of traditional Buddhism though the whole process is sound and reasonable, conforming to the inner logic of Buddhism development. During such process, the methods in Zen have exerted great influence-the re-estimation of significance. For one thing, in terms of living body and the world, Zen, as does the traditional Buddhism, adheres to the principle that significance decides direction. But it practices the principle more voluntarily and thoroughly so as to establish the noumenon status of subject in grasing significance, abolishing the tendency of non-noumenalism. For another Zen has insisted the golden mean of Buddhism, confirming the existence significance of real world and human.