On DENG Huo-qu's Thought Inclination

DENG Huo-qu's thought had undergone three phases: early, middle and late. In his early years, DENG failed to know the intuitive knowledge. The “doom” and “nature” in his thought were not in unification. His middle age years were the period in which his thought got cultivated, which had the obvious inclination to criticize the three religions. When he was a monk, he pursued the truth of conscience and life advocated by Confucianism with Taoist ways, and got great progress in his thought. During this time, he began to write his work Records of Inquiries. In his late years, after thirty years of pursuit and effort, he achieved and got enlightened. The “doom” and “nature” finally got unified and he realized the unification of three religions