非守望则守望——《麦田里的守望者》禅宗思想探析

Not being a Catcher Is a Catcher:A probe into the Buddhist Zen thought in The catcher in the Rye

禅宗教诲世人要奋发独立自救,放下法执我执,皆因世间万物虚则实、实亦虚。《麦田里的守望者》主人公霍尔顿·考尔菲德很好体现了这种悖论——非守望则守望,他想成为一个对社会负责的人,去指引和保护那些比他年幼者,但他没有去实践。当我们这个世界已变成一个机械的、科学的、二元论的世界时,我们内在的精神日见迷茫。在此境遇中,《麦田里的守望者》所体现出的禅宗思想,无疑是一种找回失落精神家园的重要途径。

The Buddhist Zen thought gives us the teaching：work out your own salvation with dili-gence,extinct the self and worldly desires as in the whole world that that is not,is;that that is,is not.Holden Caulfield,a protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye,well represents such Buddhist para-dox：not being a catcher is a catcher,and he wants to be a responsible member of society,to guide and protect those younger than him.When our world has become a mechanical,scientific and dualis-tic one,in this condition,the Buddhist thought presented in The Catcher in the Rye is surely a major way to find the lost spiritual garden.