晚清時期，巨變的時代潮流在倉促慌亂間席捲而來，知識分子在驚駭之餘，接受、面對並且努力思索因應之道。不論是以現代新理論為師，嘗試向西方世界取經，亦或是回到傳統思想體系之中，尋找可重新利用的價值與養分，皆突顯了思變已然成為當時的顯學。在思想領域裡，儒、道學說深深浸潤著知識分子，魏晉以來佛教引入之後，更與知識分子產生不可分割的關係。關於儒、釋、道三家的融通問題始終呈現於不同時代的思潮當中。章太炎的《齊物論釋》嘗試以佛解莊，期許能綰合莊老與佛教思想，並企圖從中尋得因應新時代的契機。本文則針對《齊物論釋》中對於莊子「喪我」功夫的詮釋加以剖析，呈現章太炎會通莊子和唯識並進一步提倡平等自由之新意。 At the end of the late Qing Dynasty, the tide of the times swept through the panic of the hinterland, and intellectuals began to accept it with horror and to think of ways to respond. Whether they tried to learn from the Western world by adopting new modern theories, or returned to their own systems of thoughts in order to find values and nutrients that could be reused, it is clear that thinking and discernment had become the dominant science of the time. In the realm of thought, Confucianism and Taoism have deeply infused intellectuals since the pre-Qin period, and the introduction of Buddhism during the Wei and Jin dynasties, it has led to a connected and complex relationship with intellectuals. The subject of the integration of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism has been presented in different times and in different trends of thoughts. Zhang Taiyan's "Explanation of Qiwu" attempts to unpack Buddhism in an attempt to integrate the ideas of Daoist Thought and to find an opportunity to respond to the new era. In this paper, we analyze the interpretation of Zhuangzi's "loss of self" in "The Explanation of Qiwuwu", and present the new meaning of the thoughts in Zhuangzi and Buddhist mind-only theory to further advocate equality and freedom.
