Gen Saint And Outside The King's Double Pursuit

The study of "internal sage and external king" is one of the core propositions in traditional Chinese thought, which reveals the fundamental culture of the entire Chinese nation. The road of the "internal sage and external king" is the way where traditional Chinese intellectuals and even the way people today want to settle down, also, it is the heritage of Chinese civilization stretches, a powerful spiritual pillar to our sustainable development. To the nation and the country, the road of the "internal sage and external king" is about the livelihood of the adjuvant for the country; to the individual citizens, it can be the source for our existence and prosperity. And, this paper aims at such direction, mainly focus on learning one of the two traditional research, and in the way of the "internal sage and external king", how can individuals settle down and get on with their pursuits, and before people realized that their own life's empathy, self-management of learning dialogue to explore and prerequisite to the combing of the moral principles has been realized, in the moral life of the school to have real Fulfillment.Firstly, this paper investigated the Ideological Origins and Development of the "internal sage and external king ". This word is put forward by Zhuangzi for the first time, but in the language environment of Confucianism, the " internal sage and external king " is created by the Confucius, which is the mode inherited by the later generations. The Confucius'mode of the "internal sage and external king" holds the standpoint to benefit and stand up to the other people, with this standpoint; they start from the individual's self-cultivation and legislation, so "Cultivating Oneself to security people" is the inevitable end. Starting from the habitat of humanity, then the Confucius starts to regulate the family and rule the whole world. Such mode becomes a basic road and law which has deep impact on the traditional Chinese society for more than two thousand years.To the Song and Ming Dynasties, around the nervous tension between "to be a sage" and "to be a king", the sense that "internal the sage" is the foundation of "external the King", both "internal the sage" and "external the king" are all important were established. The mode "external the king" and"get the king and practice the Tao" got the chance to be practiced, but it failed as a result, along with the study of "internal the king" shifted, the study of Confucius classics turned into Neo-Confucianism. Since then, Neo-Confucianism becomes the famous school and affected Chinese traditional thoughts from the Song and Ming to Qing dynasties. Until Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind raised, the study of the internal the sage was sprung again, in contrast to the political ecological background to Song dynasty, the upper path of "the outside king" "get the king and practice the Tao" was of little hope, meanwhile, the folk way of" enlighten the populace and practice the Tao "was in fashion.As a disciple of Wang Yangming, Wang Gen inherited the mind philosophy's tradition of "internal the sage", and practiced Wang Yangming's lecture campaign, he based on the cultivation of civil actively lectures to see the world. In the mode of the " internal sage and external king ", he got rid of the stale and brought forth the fresh, explicated the study of conscience of Yangming, begreifened "the humanity of unifying interconnectedness", proposed the sense of "Common People's Daily Life was Confucianism", explicated the view of "Investigating Things in the South of Huai". He put the view "establish myself, establish everything" as the purpose, inherited the study of Confucius and Menci in the road of "internal the sage", determined in the succession of teachings from masters to disciples. In the road of the "external the king", he practiced filial piety and fraternal duty in his daily life, participated in the local social affairs, propagated his teacher's study and gave many lectures. On such base he initiated Taizhou school, advanced the development of Yangming's philosophy of mind. So, we can say that Wang Gen and Taizhou school played an important role in the change of late Ming dynasty's academic and ideology and social customs.In the mode of "Internal Sage and External King ", the paper firstly analyzes the quest to the internal sage. By this questing, we will investigate how Wanggen learned by himself from begreifening the "Benevolence in Everything-as-one", from the learning of "self-gain" to taking Yangming as his teacher, he developed Yangming's study of conscience, at last,he constructed his theory system in the basic of the philosophy of mind. His famous viewpoints are:"Common People s Daily Life was Confucianism", "From Object-observing to Knowledge", "be worldly-wise and make oneself safe", "to be a guide both in and out", etc, exploring the study of the "internal sage" in his life course and everyday life.Secondly, this paper analyzed Wang Gen's pursuit of "external king". By examining how Wang Gen practices filial piety and fraternal duty in his daily life and lecture actively, carries out Yangming's easy teaching method. Facing the ignorance of the populaces, he made the folk way of "enlighten the populace and practice the Tao" prosperous. In the guide of the internal sage, practicing actively; in the cause and contribution of external king, practicing the study of internal sage constantly.Finally, this paper integrated Wang Gen's pursuit of both internal sage and external king together. Making a general survey of Wang Gen's life, as he said in his old age, he acclaimed that knowing Yangming's study of conscience and lecturing Yangming's thought is the foundation of his settling down and getting on with his own pursuit. Establish myself; establish everything is his final home to return to. The study of internal sage which Xinzhai inherited is Yangming's study of conscience and his own study, the view "establish myself; establish everything" is to clarify this thought. "Internal sage" is the basic of "external king", and "internal sage" realizes itself in the real success of "external king'. So, "establish myself; establish everything" is the portraiture to his whole life. However, the view "establish myself; establish everything" leads to the falsehood of "to be a teacher both in and out", which determined their minds to inherit the Confucian orthodoxy. In Wang Gen's thought, it can be said that the dual pursuit to internal sage and external king is perfect. From a salesman to a businessman, finally, as a cloth Confucian, he digged into academic, lecturing abroad, enlightening the coward and finally initiated Taizhou School, pushed forward the spread of Yangming's philosophy of mind. Also, the successor of Taizhou School has important impacts to the social of late Ming dynasty.