Sample chapters
8 essays published/Currently at Chapter Seven 路 A Human World Formed Within
Beginning from the moment the author mistook a hornet for a fly during an afternoon nap, this chapter reflects on experience, the world formed in the heart, attachment to fortune and misfortune, and the meaning of holding sun and moon within one's own human world.
Through Axiang's life and the author's own ambition, this chapter examines how the bridge of heavenly authority begins to split when a person stays too long on only one side of fear or greed, and how comforting explanations can harden into a prison.
From the acceleration of his own life, the premature exhaustion of business cycles, and the structure of desire, this chapter gradually sees that heavenly authority is the still-unbroken bridge between greed and fear.
Recasting confusion as a phase, this chapter introduces the six stages of heavenly selection and the three swords of human choice: break attachment, see the momentum, and settle the heart.
Using the two faces of a coin as a metaphor for craving and fear, this chapter explains confusion, depression, delay, and the clogging of the river of thought.
Beginning with a misread stone in Shenlongjia, this chapter proposes a method of self-observation through journaling, tracing craving and fear by "lifting stones."
With the metaphor of thought as a river, this chapter explains how information, experience, desire, and knowledge shape a person's inner world.
From material law and inward meaning to human choice, cost, and result, the preface lays out the book's basic structure.