王艮弟子林東城, “師心齋而友龍溪”, 深受陽明門下兩大巨子心齋和龍溪的思想影響, 而又形成了有着他自己個性特色的心學思想。其心學思想主要內容有:良知无不眞;卽心是理, 人己一體;政學相卽, 工夫不離日用;自心自信, 以心養學;親師取友, 學門第一事等。可見其思想未爲心齋、龍溪所局限。在廣泛交游、論學過程中, 他的思想展現出愈益重視工夫的傾向性變化。幷且, 東城由傭工而仕進, 隨着身分地位的改變, 成長爲士紳之儒, 逐漸背離了泰州學派平民儒學傳統。盡管其享年不永, 但其學行已顯示出了泰州學派的分化迹象。
Lin Dong-cheng is the follower of Wang Gen. Meanwhile, he made friends with Wang Ji, another your brilliant disciple of Wang Yang-ming. Under the influence of Xinzhai and Longxi, Lin Dong-cheng had formed a style mind theory thoughts of his own. The main contents comprises these aspects: Innate knowledge is true; Mind is reason, own is identical to others; politics is related to learning, efforts are in the life; learning is baced on mind; learn from masters and friends, etc. His thoughts wasn’t confined to Wang Gen and Wang Ji. Moreover, with the change of his position, Lin Dong-cheng Had departed from Taizhou School’s tradition of bringing Confucianism into common people’s life, become the Confucianist of gentry. Lin Dongcheng’learning and behaviors demonstrated the sign of the Division of Taizhou School. [Article in Chinese]