道家的活力心理思想探微

Chinese Traditional Taoist Thoughts on Vitality

活力是当前心理学的一个研究热点,与当代人的心理世界紧密相关。道家文化蕴含丰富的活力心理思想。在活力的内涵上,道家不止停留在活力的描述性层面,指出活力是一种创生能量、生生不息的生机状态以及具有"生而不有"、再始更新的特征。在活力的内容方面,道家的活力心理思想根植于"身心性命"之中。作为活力主体,道家的理想人格特征主要表现在朴、明、慈、游四个方面,并以"自然无为""致虚守静""柔弱不争"等修行作为活力心理的养成机制。道家活力心理思想对于活力的心理学理论建构、当代人的现实生活都具有重大意义。

Vitality,closely related to modern people＇s psychological world,becomes a research of common concern in current psychology. Taoist culture contains rich psychological thoughts about vitality beyond the descriptive level that attach importance to dynamism and initiative full of creative energy,life and recycle in nature. It is deeply rooted in mind and body,and nature and destiny. As the subject of vitality,Taoist ideal personality is mainly embodied in simplicity,clear inner experience,kindness and peripateticism,which lies in the mental mechanism of vitality involving natural inaction,emptiness and quietness and soft attitude to life. Taoist thoughts on vitality would be contributing to the theoretical construction of vitality and today＇s human life.