The Reason Of Worshipping Buddha And The State Of Zen In Zhanglei’s Poems And Articles

For the topic of this paper, the author consider again and again. This paper is thecase study, not the comprehensive research, I just choose Zen as The focal point tostudy. So, there are a few considerations: First, some scholars have studied someaspects such as the art, the content and the thought. So the comprehensive analysison the Zhang Lei personal makes little sense to test, It is difficult to have abreakthrough and innovation; Second, Though Mr.Zhanfen and Mr.HanWenqi havedone some studies about Zhanglei’s neo-confucianism and zen thoughts, but there isno specific research which made a space for this paper to explore;Third, Theexamine Angle and the scope need to be careful. Since it is a case study, so we can’tmake it general, meanwhile we can not concentrate in a small range. Mr KongLinghong says very reasonable:It is very important to determine the scope. The bigger horizon seemsconclude everything, but it is often deficient,just like a dragonfly on thewater. If the horizon is too narrow, you will feel it is hard to go further,even beyond our abilities. This is often ridiculed for sidetrack.Based on those thinking,I make sure the topic of the artcle is “The Reason OfWorshipping Buddha And The State of Zen In ZhangLei’ Poems And Articles”,Thatis to make the article focue on the Interpretation of zen in ZhangLei’s poems andarticles.ZhangLei has the wisdom about the zen in his early life.His grandfather worship BaiJuyi all his life, greatly influenced by zen of bai,so there must be a peacestate in his poem and article.ZhangLei learn in ChenZhou when he was young,affected by his grandfather every day. His prose contains abundant wisdom and zenthoughts. This is a evidence that ZhangLei was invited to write the descriptive proseabout Chao Rantai by Su Shi in Xi Ning eight years(1075A.D.). This is an importantsource of his forming ties to the Zen.The learning of Shu is a collection of regionality, group, political party spirit,academic concepts and it is also a outcome of the combination of neo-confucianismand the learning of Shu. The learning of Shu takes the Confucianism as the ontology,and contains the Taoism culture and the thoughts of zen.These actors have animportant influncce on him. Though he is not the first one who puts the thoughts ofzen in poems, he lasts the tradition to pay attention to the zen as a successor of thelearning of Shu very well. This behavior has much effect on the later generations.The philosophical thoughts and critical thinking of Song Danasty adds charm tothe poetry of the Chinese nation. These thoughts move poems out of fetters frompoetry of Tang Danasty and show their unique value. They can not be surpasssd byfuture generations for now. In addition to inheriting naoism,metaphysics,nature andthe peripateticism,the poems of Song Danasty also have a few meditative minds.This literary trend should never be disregard, because understanding the poems ofSong Danasty can offer a fresh perspective to further understand the artisticconception of poetry for me.Many scholars have researched Zhang Lei so far, and most of them have carriedlots of expositions for tendency of realism and neo-confucianism of his poems.Butthey ignored the thoughts of zen in his poems. Although this paper belongs tothe individual case, I hope that it can point to an area in order to observe the wholeprevailing custom about the poems of Song Danasty. So we can undersdand thepoems’ unique features with meditative minds.Thus, we will think the connection between thoughts of zen and poems of SongDanasty spontaneously. Personally, Zhang Lei always has lots of reasons to show hisgraceful or spirited wisdoms of zen in his poems, and these wisdoms will guide us to a place which fuses the thoughts of the subject, poems and zen.The notion of pragmatism was remembered by confucian scholars. They spenda lifetime to serve the king and seek the welfare for the common people in order toachive their political anbitions.But these aggressive people are no match for brutalpolitical struggle in the and. Zhang Lei restrains himself after conflicting betweenparties.He requests for transfer outward on his own intiative in order to stay awayfrom evil. He is more and more persistent to enter the ideological level of zen afterhis enterprise is damaged. So the potical struggle is one of reasons that makes himto generate the ideas of entering ideological level of zen.In feudal society, onceadministrative ideas of scholar-bureaucrat do not get the support from the rulingclique, then they will usually choose to escape to seek a compromise, because theyhave no choice.So it seems to have become a destiny from realism to enterideological level of zen.Scholars in the Tang Dynasty have their own characteristics and each invidual isglorious. It exists competition and appreciation among them,but they are also good atseeking the harmony in diversity. It appears the collective consciousness in SongDynasty,and it is a main difference between scholars of Tang Dynasty and SongDynasty. These scholars can form kinds of collective based on the academic link, notto mention the political groups. Moreover, collective consciousness of an academicgroup will provide academic guidance for its members. Zhang Lei becomes Su Shi’sprotege. with the power of Su Zhe. The consciousness of worshipping zen frommembers of the group has a great influence on the Zhang Lei naturally.Besides, mostof them are denigrated and suffer from exile. So he must be more penetrating forcomprehension of zen when he reviews his life. His buddhist thoughts have greatrelationship with the collective consciousness.