The Unification Of "Tao Sheng" And "Du Hua"

Cheng Xuanying’s thought of "Zi-Ran" has two layers of meaning.Firstly,Cheng Xuanying didn’t believe the existence of a creator,he thought All things are suddenly and mysteriously appeared on material.This is known as "Du Hua".Secondly,It is different from guo xiang’s "Du Hua" theory,Xuanying thought that everything is based on "Tao of Zi-Ran" ontology,Also he called "Miao ben".He called this kind of relationship between "Tao" and everything: "Tao Sheng",it means "the Tao gave birth to all things".Although everything on the matter so different,but everything is based on "Tao" ontology,"Tao" general "Du Hua".This kind of unification of "Tao Sheng" and "Du Hua" is the core of Xuanying’s philosophy.He also analyzes in detail the content of the "Tao of Zi-Ran" and "Du Hua".Because of this kind of unification,everyone got two layers of human nature.Firstly,"Tao" give everyone human nature of ontology,this kind of human nature is completely equivalent with "Tao".Secondly,Because all things are suddenly and mysteriously appeared on material,everyone got human nature of material,like beauty and ugliness,clever and stupid.Nature of ontology general nature of material,this unification constituted his philosophy of "Zi-Ran" in the whole of humanity.People through the method of "contentment" and "Elimination of elimination" he called "Zhi Zu" and "Qian Zhi You Qian" to achieve a mysterious mental state that called the unification of "Xiao Yao" and "Chong Xuan","Xiao Yao" means free and unfettered,"Chong Xuan" means the most mysterious of the mysterious.This is the main content of Cheng Xuanying’s thought of "Zi-Ran".