Esthetic Explanation Of Zen Thought Of Hui Neng

The sixth ancestor in zen Hui Neng establish the south zen which not only is one kind of religious belief, but is one kind of culture ideology. the ancient Eastern wisdom contains the rich esthetics connotation in its thought. This article will attempt to explain esthetics thoughts of Hui Neng from esthetic view and will draw up separately chapter to get the elaboration from the experience of Hui Neng ,the thought style, sudden enlightenment esthetics whose the theory profoundly affects to the later generation literature.The first part mainly introduces the biography and the thought style of Hui Neng. Hui Neng himself is a special character which has the legendary color . his thought are extremely unusual. He is a true founder of Chinese zen . He took"the nature is Buddha"as an objective, advocated the direct simple sudden enlightenment method and established an entire set of rich characteristic zen theory. Therefore this chapter mention from his biography in order to get a real Hui Neng biographical sketches. Simultaneously we can understand"the nature is Buddha"and"the sudden enlightenment achieves Buddha"of Hui Neng.The second part mainly introduces esthetics thought of Hui Neng. The chapter will launch elaboration from"the nature reality"esthetics ontology and"the sudden enlightenment"the esthetics methodology of Hui Neng.the nature reality esthetics ontology discusses the person achieves Buddha which does not have the time and the spatial limit, moreover it does not depend upon other external forces besides oneself . Thus, Hui Neng will turn the nature reality esthetics ontology to the lively will of the people in the reality .the bright characteristic of"nature"of Hui Neng concerns existence and surmount of people. In the methodology, Hui Neng claim that"teaches outside sect"and"straight refers to the will of the people",The method presents non-logic and so on. It is interlinked with the esthetic thought. And has had the profound influence to esthetics thought. The third part mainly introduction the important influence of Hui Neng's esthetics thought to the Chinese art. His"the nature reality theory"emphasizes that individual heart decide outer things, which causes Chinese esthetic consciousness even more inmelt. His"the sudden enlightenment"emphasizes that non-logical intuition type thought ,which let person experience has the rich connotation meaning, As make"yijing"theory formation. Esthetics of Hui Neng contais"empty"and"have"unfolded one kind of person and the world boundless boundary and affected later generation writer to pursue"empty"eathetic and put zen into poet .