But as most of the Yomeigaku people who joined Dongling were the right-wingers, Dongling was critical of the excessive ideas and actions of the Yomeigaku's left-wing.
しかし東林党に入った陽明学の人々は右派が中心であったため、陽明学左派の行き過ぎた思想・行動には批判的であった。