Intermingling of Daoism and Buddhism; from the Perspective of Mind-Nature

Philosophy and Culture 25 (12):1127-1139 (1998)
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Abstract

Buddha on the Road, the interactive nature of mind is the history of Chinese thought the major issues. From the Taoist Tao article focuses, naturally, doing nothing and everything, observing, seeing nothing but words of Buddhist thought the impact of stress, especially Taoism to Zen Buddhist provides ontology, epistemology, methodology and theoretical basis; and from Buddhist cycle of karma, methodology defeat, heart methodology, clear your heart thinking of the impact of road敎, Buddhist emphasis on the Road敎changing the human body, life, views on life from the ideal significant role in promoting, so turn on the mental cultivation, which reveals two concentric theory of the Chinese Buddhist thinking complement each other, blend the idea will pass characteristics. The intermingling of the theory of mind and nature in Daoism and Buddhism is a big problem in the history of Chinese thought. This essay would like to proceed from the notions of Dao, Zi Ran, no exerted effort and everything gets done, silent observation and capturing the meaning and forgetting the words in philosophical Daoism and examine their influence on Buddhism. It would like to emphasize that philosophical Daoism, especially Zen, contributed largely to the basis of Buddhism's ontology, methodology and epistemology. From the perspective of religious Buddhism, I would like to take a look at transmigration and retribution, the dharmas are all empty, the dharmas are produced in the mind, and the enlightened mind sees the nature , and their influence on religious Daoism. This in emphasizing that religious Buddhism had a great influence on religious Daoism in the realm of life ideals. In cultivating the mind and nature of man, Chinese Buddhism and Daoism drew from and complemented each other, creating a unique philosophical synthesis

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Fang Tian
Shandong University

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