刚柔与中国古代的身道

"Hardness and Softness" and the Body′s Tao of Ancient China

正如《周易》以"刚柔"来指称阴阳那样,"刚柔"无疑是中国哲学极为始原也极为重要的概念。然而,要对"刚柔"思想有真正的认识,就在明确"刚柔"的触觉的"身体觉"性质的同时,必须"刚"与"伸"对应,"柔"与"屈"对应,最终回到亦屈亦伸的身体。正是在亦屈亦伸的身体里隐含着"刚柔"的真正秘密,才使以刚柔立本的《周易》推出"屈信相感而利生焉"的命题,在屈伸的相感之中发现了生命生生不息的真谛;才使中医的阴阳、表里、寒热、虚实的"八纲"得以实际的成立,其中的每一纲都可视为亦屈亦伸的身道的生动展示;才使中国哲学在身的屈伸的亦此亦彼、莫得其偶之中消解了人类哲学的种种二分对立,并标志着与思维的"同一律"法则不同的身觉的"感通律"法则在理论上的真正挺立。

As the book of YiJing refers to Yin and Yang as hardness and softness,hardness and softness are undoubtedly the very primary and the most important concept of Chinese philosophy. However,to approach a real understanding of the hardness and softness, we should illustrate the body consciousness of touch of hardness and softness,meanwhile we should correspond the hardnesss to Shen, softness to Qu,and eventually return to the body with both of Qu and Shen. The real secret of hardness and softness lies in the body with both of Qu and Shen and that makes Zhou Yi launch the proposition that Qu and Shen＇s interaction is conducive to life and find the true meaning of life. Hence the eight principles of Yin and Yang,Biao and Li,Han and Re,Xu and Shi are actually established,and each of the principles can be regarded as a vivid display of the body＇s Tao with both Qu and Shen; by the same token, the Chinese phi-losophy dispels all sorts of binary opposites of human philosophy in the context of both this and that of the body＇s Qu and Shen,and it marks that the law of GanTong of body consciousness is established as a theory which is different from the law of identity of the thought.