《近思》之「錄」與《傳習》之「錄」

The 'lu' of Chin-ssu and the 'lu' of Ch 'uan-his

《近思錄》與《傳習錄》皆是興起於宋明理學中的思想傳記類型。一為「輯略」之新體，一為「記言」之變型。兩者的差異，則可以自「錄」字的再解讀中，掌握住「文」與「言」的本性而得以進行區辨。二《錄》都企圖在「當下即逝」的時間狀態中，分由「文」與「言」的途徑以進行「當下即是」的傳道活動。二者一名「近思」，一名「傳習」，同出於《論語》，反映了追隨孔子的理想；但其同名為「錄」及其何以為「錄」，則尚可探究。

Chin-ssu lu (Reflections on Things of Hand) and Ch 'uan-his lu (Instructions for Practical Living) represent two types of thought-biography that developed from Sung-Ming Neo-Confucianism. The first is a new form of 'excerption (輯略)' ; the other is a form derived from 'recorded utterance (記言).' The difference between them could be clarified by rereading the word 'lu' to understand the natural characters of 'composition (言)' and of 'utterance (文).' These two 'lu's' both tried in face of 'vanishing at the moment,' to advance doctrines of 'realizing at the moment' differentially by ways of 'composition' and 'utterance.' That the title 'chin-ssu' and the title 'ch 'uan-hsi' both come from The Analects, reflect their ideal of following Confucius. But why they are both referred to as 'lu' and how they can be 'lu' are questions which deserve further investigations.