著者

寺西 光輝

出版者

人体科学会

雑誌

人体科学 (ISSN:09182489)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.15, no.1, pp.9-19, 2006-05-30 (Released:2018-03-01)

---

The purpose of this paper is to examine the cosmology of Lao-tzu (Laozi) not as an abstract philosophical theory, but as a psychological experience in his meditation practice. Lao-tzu's "Non-Being (Wu)" is the innner reality of "All things (Wanwu)" in our ordinary world and nothing other than the inner reality of the practitioner's consciousness itself. Thus, Lao-tzu purifies the "Qi-energy (Qi)" of his body through a kind of self-cultivation and proceeds to the source of the universe that is beyond subjective/objective distinction. Consequently, while unifying himself with the realm of "Tao (Dao)" or "Spirit (Shen)" that possesses mysterious power, he achieves a spiritual state in which he can reflect over the whole process as one flow of growth and return of the universe-consciousness, arising in his body as a field. Then the practitioner's identity expands and the usual divide between Being and Non-Being dissolves into the flow of this cyclic process. In such a state and when encountering "All things" of our ordinary world face to face, Lao-tzu still could do things as act of "non-action (wuwei)", while following the "spontaneous (ziran)" work of the invisible "One (Yi)" world behind the "All things," work that fills the universe beyond the distinction between self and other.

著者

寺西 光輝

出版者

日本福祉大学

雑誌

現代と文化 : 日本福祉大学研究紀要 (ISSN:13451758)

巻号頁・発行日

no.121, pp.262-248, 2010-03-31