Abstract:Immediate attainment to enlightenment of Ch’an School has a great influence on Chinese traditional thoughts. Although immediate attainment to enlightenment is helpful to creativity as an intuitive thinking way, in fact, it hinders creativity for its subjectivity, entirety and termination. This is the thinking root which makes creativity has been lacked for a long time in Chinese history. Rethinking immediate attainment to enlightenment reflects some problems in Chinese traditional thinking way, and impels us to pay more attention to the values of gradual attainment to enlightenment and reason in order to promote creativity and development of contemporary Chinese society.