刘一明论内丹修炼三原则

刘一明是清代有学有证的高道,也是内丹理论之集大成者.他提出了内丹修炼的三个原则,即在知行关系上"先穷性命之理,后了性命之功";在修行旨归及方向上"从后天入手,后天返先天";在修行内容及次第上"性命双修,先命后性".这三个原则是道教内丹学进一步体系化、成熟化的标志之一.     

"地下海潮天上月"--略论《入药镜》一、二

道教的神仙信仰是其神学理论的核心,也是修道者不懈地进行宗教实践的动力。内丹修炼作为修道成仙的主要手段之一,在道教修行中占有极其重要的地位。从老子《道德经》的致虚守静、归根复命、返朴归真而达于道,庄子的纯素之道、坐忘心斋,到唐以后内丹家的性命双修,宋元时期提出“     

道教的宗教体验——以内丹修炼为例

文章通过对道教内丹修炼中几种特殊体验的考察,探讨了道教的宗教性和本质问题,认为道教作为宗教其"宗教性"具体体现在对"超常经验"的一步步体证,进而将道教的本质概括为"对道的体证",并进一步讨论了与之相关的义理问题。     

道教内丹诗歌的美学鉴赏

内丹诗是描写道教内丹修炼过程和内丹体验的诗歌,作为一种宗教诗歌,它虽然承载着丰富的宗教内容,但决不只是表现宗教内容的符号,同时也具有诗歌自身独特的审美价值.     

刘一明的修心养性思想及其现代思考--以《神室八法》为例

道教内丹学是道教文化中的瑰宝,它以道家哲学为宇宙观,吸收了儒释修炼理论的精华,总结了自古以来的修炼方术,形成了一套以人体科学为核心的修道思想体系.内丹学家们在长期的修行实践中,探索出一套转化升华人的生命能量,达成人的生命境界的提升与超越的生命自控系统方法.刘一明的<神室八法>和道教内丹学中的修心养性理念,对于我们今天继续探索人体生命的奥秘,提升人们内在生命的质量,克服盲目追求外在物质欲望的偏颇,提高世人的道德水平、净化社会风尚等都具有十分重要的现实意义.     

内丹话语和内丹修炼术

<正>关于内丹术,道教研究界存在一种相当普遍的看法,即认为唐宋内丹道的兴起源于外丹烧炼服食一再失败,终于难以维系,不得已转向内化,更有学者明确指斥内丹术不过是一种"匿名的拼接"。①显然,这是从无神论的视角出发基于理性对道教修炼史做出的推断。可是,合逻辑的是否就是真实的、正确的?或者,有没有可能竟存在着两种真实,一种是"科学的真实",另一种却是"信仰的真实"、"体验的真实"?不管学术权威们怎么说,在内丹实修者那里,内丹术却呈现出一种全然不同的发展轨迹。     

浅论《性命圭旨》中的性命观

"性命"是中国传统哲学的一对基本范畴,是儒、释、道、三家都关注的重要问题,但各家对其的理解和解释却不尽相同.<性命主旨>通过三教合通来阐释道教内丹学,融合中国传统文化中儒、释、道三家性命学的精髓,力倡性命双修,坚持性功、命功并重亦即精、气、神兼炼的原则,反对孤修一物.道教内丹是从后天的神气入手,其目的是修先天的元神、元气,最后神气合炼,提炼出元神.正是在这层意义上,该书尤其重视修心,并认为儒、释、道三家得以融合的核心就是"心性".     

杜光庭与钟吕内丹道

唐末五代“道门领袖”杜光庭提出过一些有关内丹修炼的理论,但与他同时代的钟离权和吕洞宾却建立了比较系统的内丹学理论体系。本文通过对杜光庭与钟吕内丹道的比较研究,以说明杜光庭对“性命双修”的强调,在某种意义上说,为内丹心性学在唐末五代的迅速发展,并在宋代以后成为道教思想与实践的主流奠定了基础。     

论内丹学"性命双修"的思想

内丹学亦可称为"性命学",即一套"性命双修"为特征的如何"成仙"的学问.本文从内丹学"性命双修"的宗旨出发,论述"性命双修"所体现的中国形而上学的特征,并从意识与物质、精神与肉体的关系、人生修养与生命境界等方面探索其可能有的现代意义.     

试析魏尧与赵避尘的内丹性命论

魏尧与赵避尘是民国时期有影响的内丹家。面对西方文化强势挑战,魏尧坚持以道融摄儒佛的传统,融合道儒佛三教性命思想来诠释内丹性命论,提出"先后天五行"性命论。而赵避尘除了坚持以道融摄儒佛的传统外,着重援引西方生理学、解剖学等来诠释内丹性命论,主张道教内丹学之精气神论是精气神生理学。但魏赵二人的内丹性命论实质上背离内丹学之性命思想。这对今日道教文化的现代阐释提供了有益的启示。     

Seeing and hearing and space and space and time

A previous experiment had shown spatial location to be judged in terms of the framework provided by the modality in which stimuli were presented. In the present study, digits were either auditorally or visually presented, and in either form the three digits appeared successivly to the left, in the center, and to the right of the S. The digit which occurred temporally in the middle of the sequence was never central from the spatial viewpoint. The S was asked to indicate which digit was the middle one. Ss were blind, deaf, or normal. The deaf and two control groups saw visual displays, and the blind and their controls heard auditory displays. The former groups predominantly chose the spatially middle digit and the latter groups the temporally middle. It was concluded that modality of presentation was the trigger which switched in the coding dimension of time or space.     

Bob and Carol and Tess and Ali

Conflicting religious experiences in different traditions do not necessarily defeat the rationality of conflicting beliefs sustained by those experiences in those traditions. The circularity that protects religious beliefs from such mutual defeat is not vicious. Moreover, the lack of ‘epistemological humility’ exhibited by such believers poses no threat to world peace. In fact, a campaign for compulsory humility would itself constitute a much greater threat.     

Law and Gospel,and Youth and Family Ministry

Abstract : If “faith comes through hearing” the word of God comprised in law and gospel, how do the imperatives that characterize ‘Youth and Family Ministry’ make such hearing possible? Here, literature delineating ‘Youth and Family Ministry’ is analyzed in light of its biblical foundations. The primary lens implemented in this analysis is the law/gospel hermeneutic advocated by Martin Luther and other reformers.     

Extremes of self-esteem and narcissism and the experience and expression of anger and aggression

This study examined the level of self-esteem and narcissism as personality variables involved in the disposition to experience and express anger. Three hundred thirty-eight subjects were sampled across two higher education centres and one student teaching programme in the United Kingdom. It was reasoned that individuals with both high self-esteem and narcissism would report especially high tendencies to experience and express anger and aggression and that those with high self-esteem and low narcissism would report the lowest. These predictions were influenced by theories that emphasise the role of threats to high self-esteem in the production of aggression and violence. Results indicate that groups defined by their extreme scores on self-esteem and narcissism scales produced levels of anger expression in the predicted direction. The importance of considering extreme levels of self-esteem and narcissism (in conjunction with other factors) in an analysis of anger is discussed with reference to currently influential theories in the field. Aggr. Behav. 24:421–438, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

Perversion and infancy and adolescence

Abstract

Studying the works of Freud and Lacan, the authors carried out research on perversion in childhood. Their work covered the perverse polymorphism of infantile sexuality and the perception of the anatomic difference between the sexes that leads the child to create sexual theories and fantasies. The phallic mother and the fetish are viewed as imaginary solutions directly related to the Oedipus and castration complexes. In perversion, a particular position is taken in relation to the Oedipus complex: a serious flaw occurs in the symbolization of the law, and the mechanisms of denial and disavowal take form. Sexuality requires a second “logical time,” separated from infancy by the latency period, in order to confirm (in action) that a fixed position of jouissance (enjoyment) has actually been established. This can only happen in a period after adolescent enhancement. The distinction between perverse traces and a perverse structure is made, taking into account the fact that, in the case of child analysis, the analyst should free the child from the family fantasy and help him/her to build his/her own fantasy.

Campos Santoro V. et al. Perversion und Kindheit und Adoleszenz.

Im Studium der Arbeiten von Freud und Lacan haben die Autoren Forschung über Perversion in der Kindheit gemacht. Die Studien behandeln den perversen Polymorphismus der infantilen Sexualität und die Wahrnehmung des anatomischen Unterschiedes zwischen den Geschlechtern, welche das Kind dazu führt, Sexual-Theorien und Phatasien zu schaffen.

Die phallische Mutter und der Fetisch werden als imaginäre Lösungen angesehen, die sich direkt auf den Ödipus- und Kastrations-Komplex beziehen. Bei der Perversion wird eine besondere Position in Bezug auf den Ödipus angenommen; ein ernsthafter Mangel tritt bei der Symbolisierung des Rechts auf; die Mechanismen der Verneinung und der Verleugnung bilden sich. Sexualität erfordert eine zweite “logische Zeit”, von der Kindheit durch die Latenz Periode getrennt, um (in der Handlung) zu bestätigen, daß eine fixierte Position der jouissance (Vergnügung) sich tatsächlich etabliert hat. Das kann sich nur in einer Periode nach der adoleszenten Verstärkung ereignen.

Es wird die Unterscheidung zwischen perversen Spuren und einer perversen Struktur gemacht, in Rechnung stellend, daß im Fall der Kinder-Analyse der Analytiker das Kind von der Familien-Phantasie befreien sollte und ihm/ihr helfen sollte, seine/ihre Phantasie auszubilden.

Campos Santoro V. Perversión e infancia y adolescencia.

Estudiando los trabajos de Freud y Lacan, los autores han investigado la perversión en la niñez. Los estudios cubren la sexualidad infantil perversa polimorfa y la percepción de la diferencia anatómica entre los sexos, que llevan al niño a crear teorías sexuales y fantasías.

La madre fálica y el fetiche son vistos como soluciones imaginarias relacionadas directamente con el complejo de Edipo y de castración. La perversión, toma una posición particular en relación al Edipo; un fallo importante tiene lugar en la simbolización de la ley; los mecanismos de negación y repudio toman forma. La sexualidad requiere un segundo “tiempo lógico” separado de la infancia por el periodo de latencia, para confirmar (en acto) que una posición fija de jouissance (goce) se ha establecido. Esto solo puede ocurrir en un periodo posterior a la intensificación adolescente.

La distinción entre las huellas perversas y la estructura perversa se ha hecho, teniendo en cuenta que, en el caso del análisis de niños, el analista debe librar al niño de la fantasía familiar y ayudar a el/ella a construir su propia fantasía.     

Dance and psychotherapy--possibilities and limits

From a starting point of therapeutic and prophylactic components identifiable in the dance, the authors regard the dance as deserving of greater attention than was hitherto the case in programs of physiotherapy, psychotherapy, and sociotherapy. From the existing essays at a therapy basing on body and motion, they infer basic common points, and to promote discussion, they state their attitudes in respect of the potential and rank of the dance in the concept of complex multimodal psychotherapy.     

神圣、凡俗与净明、忠孝

本文结合有关宗教学理论,对宋元净明道所推崇的"净明"、"忠孝"概念进行了解析.作者以为:宋元净明道视世俗性的道德实践为"神圣"的宗教修炼,实与宗教学中的凡俗可以"转换"为神圣之理论相合;而净明道徒的这种"转换",则多与其个体的"宗教体验"有关.至于元代净明道借"无极"概念来释"净明",以"净明"为回复宇宙根源之境界,则合于宗教人经验到与万物的根源、终极的本体或神圣的世界契合之感.换言之,宋元净明道的"净明"、"忠孝"说,实与各种宗教的本质有着相通之处.     

Spirituality and Religiosity and Its Role in Health and Diseases

Religiosity is a factor involved in the management of health and diseases/patient longevity. This review article uses comprehensive, evidence-based studies to evaluate the nature of religiosity that can be used in clinical studies, thus avoiding contradictory reports which arise from misinterpretation of religiosity. We conclude that religiosity is multidimensional in nature and ultimately associated with inherent protection against diseases and overall better quality of life. However, a number of untouched aspects of religiosity need to be investigated further before we can introduce religiosity in its fully functional form to the realm of health care.