蕅益智旭视界中的“太极”

On the Primal Chaos in the View of Ouyi Zhixu

关于儒学"太极"概念,蕅益智旭以出家人特有的方式进行诠释。智旭认为,太极是天地万物之本原,这一本原具有阴阳之理,阴阳变化之神妙过程中化生万物;同时,太极和万物之间是一种体用关系,太极为体,万物为用。在无极与太极的关系上,智旭表面上赞同周濂溪,暗中又借鉴朱熹的观点。智旭还提出"太极妙理"说、阴阳善恶观等。智旭是站在佛教世界观的立场上诠释儒学理论范畴,其本义是在介绍佛学,藉儒说佛,会通儒佛。

Ouyi Zhixu explained ＂the primal chaos＂, the concept of Confucianism dhist way. He believed that the primal chaos was source of the world myriad ple of things things in the unique Bud- , which had princi- the masculine and feminine elements changing in the wonderful process of the metaplasia myriad ; simultaneously the relation between the primal chaos and the myriad is one like that between body and use with the primal chaos as the body and the myriad things as use. As for such a kind of relation, he seemingly approved of Zhou Lianxi, but took advantage of Zhu Xi＇s viewpoint in se- cret. He also proposed such views as ＂the wonderful principle of primal chaos＂, the good and evil of masculine and feminine elements and so on. He took the standpoint of Buddhism to interpret the anno- tation of Confucianism theory category, whose aim was to introduce Buddhist studies and communicate Confucianism with Buddhist studies with it.