A Study On Tang Junyi's View Of Life And Death

Modern Neo-Confucian Tang Junyi thought of life and death through his whole life. Thousands of years countless people always want to solve the problem of life and death.Mr Tang not only introspected rationally,but also experienced truly, which highlights a benevolent type Confucian's feelings of tirelessly searching for life and death.Mr Tang thought of life and death from the metaphysics.He pointed out from a moral practice that the essence of moral life is controling myself consciously and transcending the actual self.Then he suspected the illusion of the real world,traced the position of moral self in the universe and found Heart as noumenon is the source of moral self. He noted that Heart as noumenon is the noumenon of real world and the spirit inside and outside the universe, which transcends the real world and performs in the real world.Mr Tang established the center of moral self and exerted his strength to elucidate the poblem of life and death. Unlike traditional Confucianism, Mr Tang thought that the problem of life and death not only is asked,but also should be asked.Death should be placed in life so this life is complete. A person consumes his natural life and achieve his spiritual life,therefore death is not the life's elimination but temporary end. In the road of life,we should bear all the experience at the moment with confidence in our hearts and transcend individual life and death with the feelings of sadness and happiness. He acknowledged tha there are ghosts and gods, who did not talk about the shape of the ghosts and gods from the position of knowledge ,but talked about the feelings of the ghosts and gods from the position of sense. He thought that the living and the dead can communicate,as long as the living has the spirit of sincerity and respect and contact with the dead, it can get through a road which is from the world of the living into the world of the dead, from the real world into the surreal world ,from the bright world into the dark world. Mr Tang thought that the Confucian three worship can get through the life and the death in the real world.He elucidated three worship's religious values and metaphysical significance in order to prove the religious nature of Confucianism. Mr Tang thought that a person who believes the Confucian person need not believe other religions.He advocated that not only there is Confucian Philosophy,but also there should be Confucianism in the development of Chinese culture.We should do the work of pure thought and practice in daily life and reconstruct the etiquette music culture in order to promote the development of Confucian religious spirit.