张伯端的性命思想研究

张伯端在形而上层次以真一统帅真精和先天气,落实到形而下而有精、气、神三宝合修的主张。为了圆融地处理形而上与形而下的关系,不得不把精、气、神的理论发展为性命理论。张伯端在综合前人思想的基础上,提出了天地之性与气质之性的二分,发展了前人关于性命关系的思想,提出了先命后性、性命双修、重性轻命等思想,为后世道教的性命理论确立了基本的理论框架。

Zhang Bo-duan's Research of Thoughts on Life

Zhang Bo-duan claimed that energy and vigor combine to dominate the upper metaphysical level while energy, vigor and spirit form the base at the bottom level. To soundly coordinate the relations of these two levels, Zhang had to develop his theory of energy, vigor and spirit into a theory of life. On the basis of those preceding theories, Zhang put forward the theory of dichotomy of the nature of heaven and earth and the temperament, and thus developed the existing thoughts on life by introducing such ideas as life before nature, cultivation of both nature and life, and nature before life. All this formed the theoretical framework of the later Taoist life theory.