Abstract
Hui-neng developed the Buddhist thought of liberation and constructed the theory of spiritual liberation with Chinese characteristics. Hui-neng’s theory of spiritual liberation is a kind of life wisdom, which aims to make people free from various afflictions and realize the freedom of the spir it. In order to achieve this goal, he explored the causes of afflictions, found the ways to liberate people from afflictions. According to his view, all afflictions (psychological problems) originate from evils and deviations, especially greed(贪：Tan), hatred(嗔：Chen), delusio n(痴：Chi) that are the three poison of consciousness called by Buddhism. Because the roots of evils and deviations are giving r ise to thoughts(动念：Dong-nian) and arising in one’s own mind(起心：Qi-xin), the best way to free from any afflictions is no-thought(无念：Wu-nian), no-dwelling(无住：Wu-zhu), no-mark(无相：Wu-xiang), which are able to make people’s mind have no impediment so that the spirit will be at easy or lightheartedness.
Highlights
The theory of liberation is a very important theory of Buddhism(Li, 2016), which purpose is to free people from the bitter sea of their suffering, find a reasonable reason for people’s suffering to comfort process is frustrated or encounter obstacles (Li, 2016a, 212). These emotional distresses do not work in isolation, but closely related to each other, usually forming a complex of emotional distresses
Chi(痴, Delusion) makes people not realize their own according to the correct ways so as to result in their self-nature or wisdom of Prajna, so that they have evil continuous effort s but no progress or even having ideas and infinite troubles in their heart s, which means negative effects, just like gone mad because of that ignorance or darkness i s able to cause a l ot of improper practice ways; the other is to make continuous afflictions and disorder
On the basis of the image metaphor of evils and deviations, Hui-neng further compares greed and hatred to hell that is irreversible, and likened stupidity and delusion to brutes, which meaning is that greed and hatred are like a sin or Deviational life (邪命, Xie-ming) refers to not to karma that people create by their own mind in order to live according to the current social reality, that is, doing make them go to hell for punishment
Summary
The theory of liberation is a very important theory of Buddhism(Li, 2016), which purpose is to free people from the bitter sea of their suffering, find a reasonable reason for people’s suffering to comfort process is frustrated or encounter obstacles (Li, 2016a, 212). Hui-neng integrated Chinese Confucianism b) Fan-nao (烦恼, Affliction) stems from the evil and and Taoism to sinicize Buddhism’s theory of liberation, deviation born in people’s mind and constructed the theory of spiritual liberation with
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