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Lu Jiuyuan is also willing to recognize "Taiji" as a metaphysical being, and advocates that there is no need to add "Wuji" to describe the transcendence of Taiji's "no square and no shape".
Zhu Xi seems to have uploaded the "Book of Changes" and "Dictionaries", corresponding the metaphysical "Tao" to "one yin and one yang", and the yin and yang corresponding to the metaphysical "instrument". Lu Jiuyuan clasped Zhu Xi's inappropriate theory of existence and explained and criticized, saying: Today, Gu regards yin and yang as non-Tao and directly refers to the shape of the instrument, which of them is the distinction between the Tao and the Tao?(The Complete Works of Elephant Mountain, Vol. 2).
Zhu Xi has always respected Lu Jiuyuan as a righteous gentleman and friend, but after Lu Jiuyuan's death, Zhu Xi's criticism became more severe, and the line between the two factions was more clearly divided. Most of the comments on Lu Jiuyuan in "Zhu Zi Language" were recorded after his death, Zhu Xi accused Lu Jiuyuan's views on reading, classics and cultivation were influenced by Zen Buddhism, but some of Lu Jiuyuan's main ** transferred to Zhu Xi's disciples, and even Bao Yang took his brothers and students to Zhu Xi's academy to perform ** rituals, and after 1190, several Lu Men** converted to Zhu Xi's doctrine.
Since the Confucian tradition emphasizes respect for teachers, Zhu Xi must have been very proud of these students' transfer to teachers. However, the descendants of the Lu clan continued to plague Zhu Xi, and he criticized them for "speaking Zen" and "being rude, they talked about disorderly ways, and even more rude, and only learned so much fierceness." Awesome!(Zhu Zi Linguistics, vol. 122).
It is implied that he is not a member of Taoism.
Zhu Xi intensified his attack on Lu Xue. Zhu Xi's views during this period were similar to those of his severe criticism of Lu Zuqian's school in the early 1180s, and his attitude towards Lu Xue, which was more pronounced than his attitude towards Lu Xue, accusing the late Lu Zuqian of making mistakes more than Lu Jiuyuan. Lu Zuqian emphasized the "second righteousness" and external learning, while Lu Jiuyuan emphasized "first establishing its greatness" and internal doctrine, so Lu Zuqian's scholarship has a tail but no head, while Lu Jiuyuan's scholarship has a head and no tail.
Missing. (Zhu Zi's Language, vol. 122) Zhu Xi still considered himself to be in a moderate position, between the two extremely opposing groups of Lü Zuqian and Lu Jiuyuan, but his terminology shows that by the 1190s, he had preferred to establish a consensus with Lu Jiuyuan's post-scholars, and was more distant from the utilitarian scholars of eastern Zhejiang.