万廷言的良知易学

Abstract

WAN Ting-yan, who belongs to the second generation of WANG Yang-ming’s disciples, succeeds the learning of innate knowledge based on Zhouyi. Wan Ting-yan focuses on Qian (heaven), Kun (earth), Fu (return), Kan (water), and Li (fire) in the Zhouyi to exposit the innate knowledge. Centralized on self-cultivation efforts of Kenbei (to abide at the back of the body) , Wan Ting-yan’s efforts include to eradicate desire and emphasize meditation, to abide in the highest good , and to abide without effort. In his twenties, WAN Ting-yan aims for a tranquil state without sense disturbance at Shiliandong, and he practices and explores almost twenty years since then. In his last thirty years, WAN Ting-yan recluses and immerses himself in the Zhouyi, and he reaches the tranquil, lively and dynamic spiritual realm. Wan Ting-yan inherits Luo Hong-xian and WANG Ji’s learning of innate knowledge , and he also has a trend to abide in the highest good. Wan Ting-yan plays an important role in the Yang-ming school.