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Preface
From material law and inward meaning to human choice, cost, and result, the preface lays out the book's basic structure.
Human Choice, Heavenly Choice
Sample chapters
Release timeline
7 chapters published/Currently at Chapter Six 路 The Cracks in Heavenly Authority
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Chapter One 路 The River World
With the metaphor of thought as a river, this chapter explains how information, experience, desire, and knowledge shape a person's inner world.
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Chapter Two 路 The Human Path Toward Awakening
Beginning with a misread stone in Shenlongjia, this chapter proposes a method of self-observation through journaling, tracing craving and fear by "lifting stones."
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Chapter Three 路 The Coin World
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.
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Chapter Four 路 Break Attachment, See the Momentum, Settle the Heart
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.
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Chapter Five 路 How Heavenly Authority Was Discovered
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.
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Chapter Six 路 The Cracks in Heavenly Authority
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.