在继承传统中医思想基础上,同时深受《周易》养生理念的影响,孙思邈创造性地育成出以养性为核心的养生之道。养性包含“性自为善”的养德和“啬神”的养神两个方面,内涵着精神内守、神形合一,是汲取了《周易》的“成性”、修德得以“兼善天下”以及《内经》养德宁性的修身原则等思想,成为养性的精神层面上的根本要求。同时,“资于食”、“俭约”的饮食之理、“导气之道”的导引术以及生活简朴、毋为物累等思想,与《周易》和《内经》的“需于酒食”、“安节”、“甘节”、“节以制度”和“一阖一辟”“呼吸精气”、“纳气”等也是一脉相承的,成为“养性”的养生之道物质层面上的必不可少的组成部分。总之,孙思邈“养性”养生之道中的养性和养形,不仅含蕴着养生实践路向(养性、养神、养形)和价值取向(长生久视之道),而且揭示了医易相合的理论根基。
Succeeding the thought conceived in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and at the same time influenced by the idea of health preservation in the Zhouyi, SUN Simiao creatively set forth his way of health preservation by focusing on human innate nature nourishment. The nourishment of innate nature include two aspects of nourishing both virtue and spirit, which adopted the idea of ac- complishing innate nature and cultivating morality in the Zhouyi and the principle of nourishing morality and calming innate nature in the Inner Carton of Yellow Emperor as fundamental requirements in spiritual levels. Meanwhile, his ideas of simplicity in eating and drinking, physical and breathing techniques, simplicity in living, and not being encumbered by external things are in alignment with the ideas of diet, being content and pleasant with self-control, inhaling the vital force mentioned in the Zhouyi and the Inner Carton, becoming indispensible elements in the materialistic level in health preservation. The nourishment of innate nature and physical form in his theory not only conceives practical routes and value orientation, but also exposes the theoretic foundation that the Changes and TCM share the same origin.