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Owner: Xueqing Luo
Owner Email: flavia_luo@163.com
Paper Title: Cultivating a Vast and Unobscured Heart-Mind: Yu Ji on Educating the Existential Self
Session Title: I-Presentation Gallery
Paper Type: iPresentation
Presentation Date: 4/11/2024
Presentation Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Descriptors: Holistic Education, Philosophy, Spirituality
Methodology: Conceptual/Theoretical
Author(s): Xueqing Luo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Unit: Other
Abstract: Under the influence of Lu Jiuyuan, Chinese Neo-Confucianist thinker Yu Ji believed cultivating the heart-mind to be the core of educating the existential self. In this cultivation, one recognizes the nature of the heart-mind as vast and brilliant through constantly shedding the obscurations such as desires, narrow-mindedness, preconceptions, and mental barriers. The transcendence of the heart-mind—a vision as vast as the open sky—relies on moment-to-moment awareness of the heart-mind. Letting the heart-mind comes back to its innate nature is a way to actualize the value of humanity in a time of uncertainty.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/2105905