苏轼人格气象的易学解读

东坡解易,本儒家“刚健有为、厚德载物”之精神,又博取道家“超然旷达”之思想,在北宋诸思想家中独树一帜。其核心主旨是:“学以致道”,“有心于学、无心于得”而得之;无心应物似水之元形而随物赋形,故苏轼崇尚水之外柔而内刚,从而旷达与执着成为苏东坡的人格追求;既注重德行又关注功业,崇德在于立业,通过德性修养从而有所作为于社会,实现由内圣向外王的转化。

On SU Shi's personality and appearance manifested in his Yi-ology

Dong-po's (courtesy name of SU Shi) Yi-ology is based on a Confucian spirit of self-empowerment and generosity with large virtue. Besides, he adopted the spirit from Daoism of transcendence and freedom, and thus he outstood in the thinkers of the Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). His kernel approach is "learning to attain to the Dao (Way)" and "learning intentionally but attaining spontaneously", responding to outside events without thinking just as water changes its existing forms along with different containers. So, SU Dongpo upholds the characteristic of water of external softness but internal hardness, which led to his pursuit of both broad-mindedness and steadfastness. Therefore, he attached importance to both internal self-cultivation and external conducts, expanding virtue in one's business so as to realize the transformation from internal sagely virtue to external kingly contributions.