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Unlike the negative attitude of Indian and Western metaphysics towards the worldly life, Chinese philosophy has always maintained a life-consciousness. Nevertheless the traditional Chinese concept of life means in fact only natural life and has little spiritual value. Buddhism introduced the negative attitude of Indian tradition towards natural life in China, moreover the Chinese Buddhism inherited the idealism of the Indian tathāgata-garbha theory, and the Chan Buddhism connected the idealism with the traditional Chinese life consciousness, all of which have made notable impacts on the development of Chinese life consciousness. The neo-Confucianism of Song dynasty at first inherited the life consciousness of pre-Qin Confucianism; The Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi elaborated the distinction between the physical and the metaphysical, but their life concept is still a natural life. It is the “Xing Xue” of Wang Yangming that first merged the absolute idealism derived from the Buddhist philosophy and the Confucian life consciousness into one, so it is up to this moment that the Confucian life concept was turned interior, and converted into a spiritual life.
Unlike the negative attitude of Indian and Western metaphysics towards the worldly life, Chinese philosophy has always maintained a life-consciousness. Yet the traditional Chinese concept of life means in fact only natural life and has little spiritual value. Buddhism introduced the negative attitude of Indian tradition towards natural life in China, moreover the Chinese Buddhism inherited the idealism of the Indian tathāgata-garbha theory, and the Chan Buddhism connected the idealism with the traditional Chinese life consciousness, all of which have made notable impacts on the development of Chinese life consciousness The neo-Confucianism of Song dynasty at first inherited the life consciousness of pre-Qin Confucianism; The Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi elaborated the distinction between the physical and the metaphysical, but their life concept is still a natural life. It is the “ Xing Xue ”of Wang Yangming that first merged the absolute idealism derived from the Buddhist ph ilosophy and the Confucian life consciousness into one, so it is up to this moment that the Confucian life concept was turned interior, and converted into a spiritual life.