从中医角度论帕坦伽利《瑜伽经》的养生价值

On Health-Cultivating Value of Pata jali’s Yoga Sūtra from the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine

养生作用并非帕坦伽利瑜伽之初衷,然今天广大民众习练瑜伽(其中包括帕坦伽利瑜伽)多为健身美体。西医对此做了大量的临床实验证明其康养作用。《瑜伽经》将瑜伽定义为对心之制约,而中医理论又充分肯定心在人体生理活动中的主导地位,因此,二者之间存在彼此沟通的桥梁。本文从中医养生理论角度,对制心手段瑜伽八支进行详细分析,发现瑜伽八支能使忠实的习练者内心澄明,不役于物,自足常乐,机体气血运行更加畅达,尤其随着制心活动到达至极状态(心之活动停止,中医称之为至阴状态),依据中医阴极阳生的理论,作为生命之火的阳气会得到进一步的增强,机体的生理机能也会因之得到进一步的提升。所以,尽管帕坦伽利瑜伽并无养生考量,但习练过程中确实会产生实实在在的养生效果。

Although Pata jali’s Yoga did not aim for cultivating health,most people of today do such practice for keeping fit and beautifying body.Western medicine has carried out lots of experiments to prove its significant role in rehabilitation and health cultivation.In Yoga Sūtra yoga is defined as the constraint of heart activities,and traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes greatly physiological functions of heart in human body.Therefore,these two share the bridge for communication.The detailed analysis of eight accessories of yoga as the means of constraining heart discovers that these eight accessories enable the faithful practitioners to achieve their inner peace,freedom from possessions,self-satisfaction and lasting bliss,(which can promote qi-blood circulation of the body)and as the heart restraining goes further to its extreme where the heart activities cease(the extreme yin state in traditional Chinese medicine),according to the traditional Chinese medicine theory of extreme yin transforming into yang,yang qi as the fire of human life will be further strengthened,and physiological functions of the body can be thus improved.Therefore,although Pata jali did not aim to produce health-cultivating effects in yoga,its practicing does create such effects.