邓豁渠与赵贞吉交游论考

A Textual Research into the Social Association of Deng Huoqu and Zhao Zhenji

邓豁渠中年时于家乡内江圣水寺礼师同乡赵贞吉学习阳明学。由于二人成长背景和志趣禀赋差异,邓豁渠与赵贞吉最终走上了不同的阳明学发展路径。赵贞吉虽对佛老思想有浓厚兴趣,但却始终坚守儒家教义和伦理纲常,以出世之心行入世之举,以禅入儒;邓豁渠自礼师赵贞吉后,便毅然决然地走上了一条崇佛自适之路,"只主见性,不拘戒律",弃儒归佛。不同的人生哲学立场,是导致他们师生关系最终破裂的根本。邓豁渠与赵贞吉由交好到分裂,亦反映出明代中晚期阳明心学衍化路径的巨大分歧。

In his middle years, Deng Huoqu took his country fellow Zhao Zhenji as his teacher in Shengshui Temple in his hometown Neijiang and began the learning of Yangming Studies. Due to the different growth background, interest and natural endowment, they finally stepped to the different development roads of the Studies. Zhao was strongly interested in Buddhist and Taoist thoughts, but stuck to the Confucian doctrines and ethics to the last. He behaved with the heart he brought when he had entered this world, and he studied Confucianism with the Buddhism as the beginning. Since his choice of Zhao Zhenji as his teacher, Deng had decisively stepped into a Buddha worship and selgease road. He did not stick to any disciplines. At last, he abandoned Confucianism and converted to Buddhism. The different life standing led to the break of their relationships of teacher and student. The change from their good relationship to its break has shown the great divergence in the derivation path of Yangming Studies in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.