Lu Jiuyuan Quotes on Mind
Lu Jiuyuan, also known as Lu Xiangshan, was a Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher of the Southern Song dynasty and the principal rival of Zhu Xi, whose more rationalist program he challenged from the standpoint of an explicit philosophy of mind. This page collects quotes attributed to Lu Jiuyuan on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Lu Jiuyuan:
“The universe is my mind; my mind is the universe.”
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Attributed to Lu Jiuyuan:
“Principle is not external to the heart-mind; it is the heart-mind itself rightly seen.”
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Attributed to Lu Jiuyuan:
“What is in the classics is in our own minds, before we ever read a word.”
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“Even if the Heaven and Earth were destroyed, the Universal Reason would still be there.”
As quoted in Lin Yutang 's From Pagan to Christian (1959), p. 107, and in George E. G. Catlin 's Rabindranath Tagore (1964), p. 17