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Updated: May 1, 2025
Wang Yang-ming's philosophy also followed Confucius, but he liberated himself from the Neo-Confucian tendency as represented by Chu Hsi, which started in the Sung epoch and continued to rule in China in his time and after him; he introduced into Confucian philosophy the conception of "intuition". He regarded intuition as the decisive philosophic experience; only through intuition could man come to true knowledge.
They sought to actualize what their predecessors tried to symbolise. To the Neo-Confucian mind the cosmic law was not reflected in the phenomenal world, but the phenomenal world was the cosmic law itself. Aeons were but moments Nirvana always within grasp. The Taoist conception that immortality lay in the eternal change permeated all their modes of thought.
"When a man thinks of the past he concentrates on self; when he thinks of the future he radiates from self. Call me a neo-Confucian; with the cone opening forward away from me, instead of focussing on me...." "You make me think of an extinguisher," said Prothero. "You know I am thinking of a focus," said Benham. "But all your thought now has become caricature.... You have stopped thinking.
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