《庄子·养生主》的在世修养与中道调节

Cultivation in the World and the Middle Way from“The Primacy of Nourishing Life”in the Zhuangzi

《庄子》对养生的思考,在这个全民注重健康的新时代,能够再为当今的养生风潮提供什么启发?在现代人所关怀的养生营卫这一课题上,《庄子》养生哲学也能开启当代意义。《庄子》的养生精华,既不在延年益寿的个我保存,也不在呼吸导引一技一艺的养生偏方,而是关涉整个主体或自我的彻底转化。然主体转化的复杂性,正如庖丁所面对庞大牛体之错综结构与迷宫内里,无法简化处理,也无法技术解决,因为处理“主体(自我)”转化的在世养生,也意味着要处理“主体我”与人间世各种人我关系、伦理情境的共构性课题。

Would Zhuangzi's thought on“nourish life”become significant and inspiring in the modern time when everyone is just concerned with health?I have long been engaged in the disclosure of the new meaning of the classic Zhuangzi,and hope to attempt to consider the possible contemporary meaning of Zhuangzi's philosophy of“nourish life”.In my opinion,Zhuangzi is not only the folk prescriptions of self-preservation to lengthen one's lifespan or techniques such as breathing guides.Zhuangzi's health cultivation involves the complete conversion of the subject transformation.The complexity of subject conversion is just as Cook Ding faces the complex structure and labyrinth of the large bull,which cannot be simplified or technically resolved.We can say that dealing with the health cultivation issue of the“subject(self)”is the same as handling the complex issues of coexistence between“the subject I”and ethical relationship and social situation of the everyday life.