유가의 ‘마음 가다듬음과 살핌’ 명상의 체험

Abstract

Chu Hsi used the method sitting calmly and upright as a healing medium which was helpful in calming and concentrating the consciousness which was easily apt to distract and irritate in daily life as well as developing(涵養) and introspecting(省察) the mind. Sitting calmly and upright is a healing therapy calming the mind and staying the human’s right life principles together. Authors of this thesis developed a medication method of Confucian ‘Mind Settling and Introspection’ in order that the Confucian’s sitting calmly and upright could be utilized as a common healing therapy in daily life. And the authors developed 15-minute medication for busy contemporary people to preserve their initial mind and nature in spending a short time for the purpose of recognizing the Confucian meditation’s fundamental meaning and effect and eventually contributing in modernizing the Confucian meditation. The number of participants in this study was 190, and the data were collected from 105 participants who agreed in collecting the data about their meditation experience. The main question for the data collection was ‘What experience did you have during the meditation process?’ As the method analyzing the data, this study used Colaizzi’s to identify the meditation’s fundamental meaning and structure by drawing out common attributes in the entire participants, rather than each participant’s individual attribute. The authors conducted 15-meditation of ‘Mind Settling and Introspection’ for 7 weeks to the participants, and then selected 380 meaningful statements from the raw data(protocol) which had recorded their meditation experience, and drew out the formulated meaning being composed of 125 statements. The formulated meaning being composed of 125 statements had 33 themes and the 33 themes were divided into 14 theme clusters. And 14 theme clusters were classified into 9 large categories. And it was identified that 9 large categories were ‘Physical & Psychological Calmness(心身收斂)’, ‘Physical Demonstration of Creative Willness(生意體證)’, ‘Universe & Nature’s Principles Physical Recognition about the Principles of Universe and Nature(天理體認)‘, ‘Greed Suppression(遏人欲)’, ‘Reflection and Introspection’, ‘Virtues Awareness’, ‘Psychological・Physical・Social Health’.