略论阳明心学的禅宗色彩

A Brief Research on the Zen Color of Wang Yangming’s Mind Study

王阳明是有明一代最为重要的儒学思想家,他一生历经出入佛老、龙场悟道、天泉证道,开创了一条与程朱理学截然不同的道路。研究者多认为阳明心学渊承自孟子并受到陆九渊的直接影响,而阳明心学与禅宗之间的联系,却似乎被有意地贬抑或视而不见,然而难以回避的是,无论禅学给予阳明何种程度何种性质的影响,阳明心学中的“心即理”“致良知”“四句教”等主张带有鲜明的禅宗色彩。

Wang Yangming is one of the most important Confucian scholars in Ming Dynasty.His life has gone through many aspects,such as Buddha-Lao,Longchang and Tianquan,which created a completely different road from the Neo-Confucianism of Cheng-Zhu.Most researchers think that Yangming's mind-learning originated from Mencius and was directly influenced by Lu Jiuyuan,but the connection between Yangming's mind-learning and Zen Buddhism seems to have been deliberately deprecated or ignored,but it is hard to avoid it.No matter to what extent the Zen influences Yangming's mind study,some minds of Yangming have distinct Zen color,such as"mind is reason","to conscience","the four sentences teaching".