禅境:中国艺术的直觉理性

中国艺术的意境美学观与佛教密切相关。禅宗强调“明心见性,顿悟成佛”,这种直觉近乎本能却相当高级,看似神秘而更内在。它极端浓缩了想象所需要的时间过程,扬弃了其中的自觉理性成分,把妙悟天开、天真发溢、意到便成视为艺术的最高境界。禅境崇尚顿悟,使中国艺术(诗歌、绘画、书法、戏剧、建筑等)逐步形成了以淡泊、简约为极致的特征,其所凝结的乃是中华民族文化心理结构中的直觉理性。

The State of Zen: the Intuitional Reason of Chinese Art

The aesthetic spirit of Chinese art is closely related to Buddhism. The concept of Instant Revelation in Zen Buddhism emphasizes an almost instinctual inherent intuition. It greatly condenses the time process that imagination requires, abandons the conscious reason, and regards the natural and intuitional state as the highest state that art could reach. This emphasis on Instant Revelation has gradually resulted in the tranquility and simplicity of Chinese art, reflecting the intuitional reason of the cultural psychic structure of the Chinese people.