Panel: RELIGIOUS FORMS OF LIFE. INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES: EUROPE - CHINA - SOUTHEAST ASIA



243.4 - How Do Chinese People Distinguish Between Delusion (迷) and Enlightenment (悟) in Spiritual Life?

AUTHORS:
Zhang X. (Hangzhou City University ~ Hangzhou ~ China)
Text:
Right and wrong, delusion and enlightenment, are eternal issues in spiritual life, closely linked to light and darkness, nobility and degradation. This article attempts to analyze how mainstream Chinese tradition approaches and attitudes toward the criteria for judgment, as well as their manifestations in real-life attitudes, and basic principle of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and martial arts in order to illustrate a Chinese view of "gnosis" in compare to western Gnosticism.