Briefly Analysis Of Cheng Xuanying's Thought Of Chongxuan

Chongxuan thinking way can be tracted back to the philosophical propositions by Laozi and Zhuangzi before Qin Dynasty. Just as Laozi holds that one must get rid of obstinacy in order to pursue Tao, Zhuangzi regards that Tao is no Not-being. They both embody a kind of negative thinking. Wangbi inherited this method and interpreted Xuan as Not-being. He thought that the abstruse character of Tao can be understood only if one treated it from the perspective of double Xuan. Guoxing clearly put forward a concept called Double Negative, with actually is the core of the thinking of Chongxuan. Later, Sundeng, Luoshi and Sunzhao employed Chongxuan to interpret Lao Zi or Zhuang Zi. In the times of Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, a senor monk named Jizang made good practice of Chongxuan thinking method. Scholars about Taoism not only employed Chongxuan to annotate Lao Z\ but also based on Chongxuan and wrote some classics about Taoism work independently .One of them is Ben Ji Jing, which laid down the basic theoretical formwork of Chongxuan study of Taoism .Cheng Xuanying accumulated the quintessence of those thoughts by former scholars and defined Chongxuan.He combined Zhuang Zi with the propositions of Taoism and laid a sold foundation for the in-depth development of Chongxuan study.In his Chongxuan study, Cheng Xuanying employed reason to interpret Tao and turned it into reason, which is not Being or Not-being but a well-recognized truth. Its wonder lies in that it can make everything live naturally while it natures them. However, this Tao is not the highest truth, which means the truth of Chongxuan and the ultimate essence of the living things. Cheng Xuanying borrowed Zhongdao thought from Buddhism to construct his thought about Chongxuan, which is closely related with nature different from Zhongdao, whose essence is emptiness. Though Tao of Chongxuan seems to be superior to its counterpart of living things, it is closely mixed with Tao of living things. Tao regards nature as the ultimate essence but nature doesn't exist as substance. Then, Tao seems to have no basis for its being as it bases on Nature. However Cheng Xuanying doesn't want to deny the substantial nature of Tao. He put it in the inner heart of people .In so doing, cultivating doctrine can help...