동양적 사회 윤리에 대한 고찰

Abstract

This treatise has two parts. The first part explains the homeostatic principls of nature such as the four virtues of Confucianism: benevolence,righteousness, courtest and wisdom and the four immeasurable mind of Buddhism: mercy, pity joy and giving in terms of the model of ion reaction and assigned the four minds of compassion, justice, concession and criticizing. Next, the four images of the Book of Change increasing shadow increasing light, dark shadow and bright light, and the six: warm, heating, dry, humid, windy and cold forces are assigned. Then the four greats of earth, water, fire and wind, which construct the objects including conceptual ideas, are explained. It is claimed here that these virtues and forces work, as the homeostatic principles, to sustain the nature. An interesting thing is what are believed to be the works of Buddha himself: the acts of merce, pity, joy and giving are the homeostatic principles of the nature and Buddah is only getting the free ride on them. The second part explains that the objects of the universe rise, abide, mutate and perish in the vacuous state covered with weak energy field. What emergesin these changes is the self, who has the buddhist nature. The self is supposed to be a temporarily established entity. However the self is not an non-entity. The self with his life energy preserve himself and serve for the salvation of other sentient beings. The self also manifest humanism and obtain self emancipation. The wisdom to know every thing is obtained if one divests of discriminating mind and comes to be the same with the dharma realm and then to be free.