What is Confucianism's idea of health care

Confucianism is centered on the concept of "benevolence and love", which is reflected in the medical practice of asking doctors to treat people with the spirit of benevolence and love.

Confucianism is a "heart-based" system of health care. Confucian health care is through exercise, moving muscles and bones, cultivating morality in order to achieve the sublimation of the soul, its ultimate goal is not only for "health", but also for "longevity" and "Tao". Confucianism emphasizes the role of the heart as the moral subject, and it is a three-phase organism that integrates the human form, qi and heart. The heart is the layer of consciousness, and form and qi are the layers of non-consciousness.

It can be seen that Confucian health care is to train the ability of moral practice. Confucian health care to cultivate the body as the main content, in order to raise the gas for the fitness of the main task, to the "benevolent life" as the theoretical orientation, to the "unity of man and heaven" as the philosophical basis to "neutral" for the highest level. The highest state is "neutralization". Confucian health care thought of the value of life and the need to unify in the "cultivation, family, governance, and world peace" beliefs, not to purely health care as a priority.

Rather, it focuses on the existence of human life in society as a whole and cultivates the fearless spirit of people who nourish their lives but not their own, which belongs to the category of moral nourishment. In the Confucian theory of health care, Confucius first put forward the "benevolent life" "Analects Yongya" point of view, and later put forward very definitely: "great virtue must be its life "Rituals of the Mean, that only people with high morals may live a long life.

Good moral character is indeed an important sign of mental health, and mental health is a necessary prerequisite for getting rid of diseases and prolonging life. Yan Hui asked Confucius for advice on what a "heart fast" is, and Confucius said: "First, you have to relax your whole body and mind and quiet your mind to get rid of distracting thoughts so that your mind and consciousness will gradually return to one place and focus on one heart. At the same time to adjust the breathing so that their breathing from fast and slow from shallow to deep then you do not have to listen to the ear to hear the heart to experience.

And then deepen the practice, the distractions are all gone, this time has reached the point where the heart is dependent on the breath, then the heart can not hear, the gas to sense. The function of the ear can only hear the sound of sound, the function of the heart can only feel the external tangible things. Qi, on the other hand, is empty and void, yet omnipresent; it can hold everything. When cultivation enters a high and deep level, the brain thinking also enters a state of extreme stillness.

Gradually entering the realm of chaos, God and Qi are united, and the heart is silent. At this time, people and the sky, the true nature of the reveal, seems to enter a kind of empty world, then the "Tao" naturally with you. This is the virtual, is the heart of the fasting.