主静说和通变说是陈白沙心学方法论中的两条经纬线。前者是指通过澄心、静思而达到自得，此谓悟道。后者系指以静驭动，知几而作，随时以变，是为用道。由此向人们展示了一条以静虚为本、将知情意融为一体、在精神上和践履上都臻于真善美统一的人生理想境界的修养路径。表面看来，这种方法论颇似禅学，实际上其思想体系则与释道迥异。 The main static rhetoric and Tong Tan said that Chen Baisha’s methodology in the two latitude and longitude lines. The former refers to through consummation, meditation and achieve contented, this enlightenment. The latter refers to the static movement, knowing a few made, ready to change, is to use. Thus it shows people a path of cultivation based on the ideal of living, the ideal of being united in the truth, the goodness and the beauty, both in spirit and in practice. On the face of it, this methodology is quite similar to Zen Buddhism, but in fact its system of thought is quite different from that of Buddhism.