신유학의 정좌법과 심신수렴의 유교치료

Abstract

Confucianism (Especially, Neo-Confucianism) was the most important traditional humanities in East Asia with very active interests in the relationship between the human body and mind, action and function of the mind, and method of cultivating the mind. In addition, the nature of Confucianism itself is therapeutic and curative. Also, Jingzuo (quiet sitting) as a therapy is one of the methods of psychosomatic moral culture proposed by Neo-Confucian scholars in the Song dynasty of China, which refers to realizing one’s own nature by calming oneself and having an attitude of ‘unmoved in absolute stillness’. In other words, Jingzuo was widely known as a method of psychosomatic convergence or psychosomatic moral culture in Neo-Confucianism (Confucianism after the Song dynasty including Daoxue). Of the Beisong-Wuzi (five great thinkers of Beisong) who contributed to the birth of Neo-Confucianism, Ercheng (the Cheng brothers) taught the importance of Jingzuo, and compiler of Neo-Confucianism, Zhu Xi, too, was very positive about the Confucian method of moral culture of Jingzuo. This method of moral culture is suggested as a method of sitting-in Zen meditation or taking care of one’s health not only in Neo-Confucianism (Zhuxiism and Yangmingism, etc.) but also in Buddhism or Taoism. Accordingly, there has been constant criticism that this method of moral culture is too Zen Buddhist in and out of the world of Confucianism. Thus, this paper focused on investigating the Confucian therapeutic significance of the Jingzuo method and psychosomatic convergence in Neo-Confucianism. In other words, the first part of the main discourse of this study reviewed the Jingzuo method and various discussions about mind and body in Neo-Confucianism, the aspects of the Jingzuo method, an important method of psychosomatic moral culture in Neo-Confucianism and Neo-Confucian scholars’ psychosomatic convergence and its curative significance. In addition, the second chapter discussed eminent Confucianist, Jishan Liu Zongzhou’s Jingzuo theory and meaning of psychosomatic healing, characteristics of Jishan Jingzuo theory and Liu Zongzhou’s discourse about the relationship between psychosomatic healing and Jingzuo, who made a finale of the history of Confucianism in the Ming dynasty the history of Yangmingism in the Ming dynasty before the prosperity of Kaozhengxue in Qing dynasty.