Not Admitting Existence or Non-existence and Studying What is Near at Hand and Aspiring to What is Lofty——On Zou Shouyi's Way of Working
Since Zou Shouyi dreamed of Zhu Zi in Qingyuan,he realized that the way of self-cultivation of Post-Yangming School had two drawbacks:"studying what is near at hand"does not endow people with the"aspiration to what is lofty";"as-piring to what is lofty"cannot understand the"the study of what is near at hand".Zou then adopted the unique way of not ad-mitting existence or non-existence to make a compensation:He considered"the Being"which exists before any physical things as the foundation of these things.He used this to correct the former drawback mentioned above.He also criticized Zhu Zi for his pursuing the outer Li of physical things and getting far away from one's inner mind.Zou advocated no attachment to the outer existence,rather the return to the self-knowing in the realm of non-existence in which accidental justice might be avoided under the scrutinization of one's conscience.Besides,he abided by the principle of"introspecting oneself even while practicing daily routine and observing the Being before the generating of any physical things."The principle was insisted to rectify the thought by Wang Ji that Wang entangled himself in only experiencing the metaphysical and advocated that he should not be trapped in Nothingness,but should make efforts to cultivate oneself from the daily routine.By doing this,Zou finally link up"studying what is near at hand"and"aspiration to what is lofty".The rectification on the study that only deals with"the things at hand"without noticing the"aspiration to what is lofty"helps scholars realize the difference between the study of Mind and the secular studies,pointing out the right way for scholars to practice.On the other hand,his rectification on the study that only focuses on"the aspiration to what is lofty",ignoring"the things at hand"helps to reverse the tendency of scholars to talk endlessly about metaphysics.Zou proposed the idea of starting with from the"the things at hand"find,cultivate and expand conscience,which embodies the superb wisdom of the Middle Way and is helpful to the spread of the thought of Post-Yangming's School.
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