Impartial Comment On The Yangming’s School Of Mind

Yangming’s School of Mind(Yangmingism) is an important epoch-making thought appeared when Cheng-zhu School of Principle gradually became rigid. Yangming felt that it is ambiguous academic that resulted in the prevalence of lust and lack of ethics, and “diseases” prevalent in the society has gone beyond remedy, which need urgent correction so as to avoid the doom. In this regard, Yangming built up his School of Mind system, trying to save the social and moral crisis with his theory. Holding the ambition of “becoming a sage and virtuous man”, Yangming devoted his whole life to the construction of his School of Mind system. He realized that the way of becoming a sage and virtuous man is to be self-sufficient spiritually in Enlightenment in Longchang, and started resorting to comprehend internally rather than seek externally, thus putting forward Mind is Principle, which is the basis and foundation of School of Mind system, stressing on mental activities. Intuitive Knowledge and Sends the intuitive knowledge suggested in his later years is the deepening and improvement of his School of Mind system, and also the core of his thought. Unity of knowing and acting, the thought running throughout his life was intensified into the integration of heart and mind on the basis of sending the intuitive knowledge, thus turning into the School of Mind system, which was put in a more specific way as Universe as a Whole. Yangming’s School of Mind is like genuine gold refined through life experience and also a complete self-cultivation system built with his sensitive comprehension and superb intelligence. This system resulted from feudal ethics, but not restricted to feudal society, for it rooted deeply in every individual form of life. Yangming’s contribution lies in his passing of such secretive and perceptual experience to a wider range of people through expressive language, which brought about immediate benefit.