Chapter catalog

From material law and inward meaning to human choice, cost, and result, the preface lays out the book's basic structure.

With the metaphor of thought as a river, this chapter explains how information, experience, desire, and knowledge shape a person's inner world.

Beginning with a misread stone in Shenlongjia, this chapter proposes a method of self-observation through journaling, tracing craving and fear by "lifting stones."

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.

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.

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.