The academic thought of Wang Mingyang, a master of Ming Dynasty, was developed under the inspiration of Lu Xiangshan's "Mind Learning". This school is very close to the preaching of Zen, and they all pay attention to "understanding". Therefore, Wang Mingyang's viewpoint of "nothing outside the heart" and his psychological theory were later called the diversion of Zen.

Wang Mingyang has a famous saying: "It is easier to break the thief in the mountain than to break the thief in the heart". In other words, it is easy to destroy tangible things, but it is difficult to destroy intangible things in the hearts of Tibetans. Therefore, people often say that to change people's way of thinking, we must touch the soul.

Zen is a school of Buddhism, characterized by epiphany, heart-to-heart communication, no words and no traces to follow. Wang Mingyang's theory of "To Conscience" is a mature manifestation of psychology, which is internally consistent with the basic spirit of Zen orthodoxy represented by the Six Ancestors Tanjing, not only in the way of enlightenment, but also in the form of enlightenment and change.