死亡、孤独与良知的剥离

人是生而在世界之中的。在世界之中存在,则人之心多为功名利禄嗜欲所牵,人之存在则易陷溺于外在物物缘缘相生的纷乱中。阳明因宦官刘瑾弄权被贬谪至贵州龙场,这种贬谪使阳明从已有世界脱落,被动地摆脱了功名利禄嗜欲。繁华喧嚣的世界远离而去,惟剩下亘古自然、孤独、死亡与其相伴。正是在这种孤独、死亡的交相逼迫中,良知如日月从固有的生命存在中昭昭而出。

Death, solitude and the purifying of innate knowledge

Man is a world being, and is subject to the wealth or fame of the material world. We men are most often indulged in thedisturbance of the outside world.Wang Yangming was demoted to a remote place in Guizhou as a result of politics playing by Liu Jin, aneunuch. His degradation is in a sense a break off of the existing world, an extrication of the earthly desire. In such situation, farawayfrom our own selves is the clamor of the flourishing world, and what left alone with us is the perpetual naturalness, loneliness and death.It is before such compelling darkness caused by solitude and approaching death that our conscience rises evidently like the sun.