道禅语言观与中国诗性精神之诞生

Language Views of Taoism and Zen and the Birth of Chinese Poetic Spirit

在中国哲学关于语言的探险中,没有谁比道家和禅宗走得更远。本体之道和佛法大意的不可说,使沉默的价值得到彰显。但这种沉默并不是彻底放弃语言,而是企图最大限度地拓展其能指的边界,以实现对道境或禅境的逼近。但是,就这种语言探险的绩效而论,它给人留下的依然是一个思想的残局。在此,知识与真理、语言与对象之间的距离与其说被充分拉近,倒不如说使两者的分际变得更加明晰。道禅的语言之思,给人昭示的就不是科学意义上的真理,而只可能是一种"一言难尽"的诗意图景。诗性精神也因此成为中国哲学的基本精神。

In the history of Chinese philosophy,there are Taoism and Zen which make notable theoretical contribution into the relation between language and truth.The silence is the most sacred choice because we can not say what is Tao or Buddha.In the meantime,they try to find other ways to speak the truth,such as transcendent language,natural language,and image or corporal actions as symbols,although the being is still a secret to man.It goes to show that the ways what the Taoist and Chan master provide can not give us scientific truth,but only a poetic illusion of the world,and hence the poetic spirit is the basis to Chinese philosophy.