柳宗元的“有我”之禅

LIU Zongyuan and His Zen

因时代与个人的风云际会,柳宗元不仅精通佛理而且将佛禅思想融入文学作品之中。因“永贞革新”的失败,他在贬谪地度过了自己的余生,自然环境的恶劣使其顿生寂寞之感,其诗借苍鹰、跂乌等形象比喻自己所遭受的政治迫害,并表达“猛志固常在”的精神。寂寞的贬谪生活中,柳宗元用诗歌表达自己对故国的眷恋和对故人的思念,这正是南宗禅“自性”的体现,亦即“有我”之禅的深层内涵。

LIU Zongyuan not only is proficient in Buddhist doctrine, but also integrate it into his literature creation. Because of the failure of Yongzhen's Innovation Reform, he spent the rest of his life in Yongzhou and Liuzhou where were poor in natural environment. His uses the images of eagle and raven to describe the political persecution he suffered, and express his spirit of “Tiger”. In his lonely and relegated life, LIU Zongyuan expressed his homesickness by poems, which is the embodiment of the “self” in South Zen and the deep connotation of Zen with “self”.