Wang Yangming's Theory of Mind State and Its Contemporary Significance
The mind state constitutes a new perspective to study,understand and apply the heart-mind theory of Wang Yangming.The discussions about mind state indicates that Wang Yang-ming not only has a distinct and systematic understanding of the subtlety,complexity,and diversity of mind state,but also reveals the negative consequences and original causes of negative mind state.Then Wang Yangming creatively constructs a methodology,which is based on the extension of inner knowledge and includes a systematic methods like making up mind,focusing on goodness,tracing the highest principle,'all in one'theory,to remove the negative mind state.Wang Yangming's discourse of mind state contains many profound and characteristic psychological ideas,which is im-portant in the history of Chinese philosophy and psychology,and becomes an important resource to construct China's independent psychological knowledge system.At the same time,it also has spe-cial instructive significance and practical value for easing psychological state and resolving negative mind state of people.
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