慧能禅法思想意蕴初探

The Connotational Analysis of Patriarch of Zen Thought

慧能创立的南宗禅法,围绕成佛的依据与途径、禅修的方法、禅法与日常生活的关系等方面,提出了识心见性、自性自度、顿悟说等一系列崭新的思想。这种重视自性、提倡自修自悟实现内向超越的思想特色,改变了以往传统的禅修方式,将佛性真如根植于众生的自性中,将修持实践融合于日常生活的体验中,适应了下层平民百姓的精神需求,凸显了中国佛教的特色所在。

The Southern Chan Sect Buddhism, founded by the Sixth Patriarch Huineng, proposed behold the Buddha -like nature within oneself, rely on oneself, epiphany thought and a series of new thinking, is rounded by the Buddha basis and approaches, meditation methods, meditation and daily life relations. The ideological characteristics about paying attention to the nature of the self and promoting self - study achieve introverted beyond changed the way of traditional meditation. It made the Buddha nature rooted in the people nature and blended praetice of meditation in the daily activities. Simultaneously, adapted to the spiritual needs of the civilian population and highlighted the characteristics of Chinese Buddhism.