Building Inner Strength

Jueren Wang is a researcher of Chinese history and traditional culture. Tony Blishen is a retired British diplomat with service in China, Japan, and Mongolia. He studied Chinese and Japanese at Londons School of Oriental and African Studies and at the Deng Zhiang College of Chinese in Hong Kong.

Preface: Take the Road to Spiritual IndependencePart I This Is How Sages Are RefinedThe Skepticism of the Child Prodigy: Is Common Sense Reliable?The Path Towards SagehoodDo Not Waver, Maintain Your Inner FreedomThe Cheng-Zhu School of Reason and the Lu-Wang School of MindEnlightenment at Longchang: the Birth of the Yangming School of MindPart II Mind is Reason: The Road to Self-Realization Lies in the MindChapter 1 Trees and Flowers Amongst the Rocks: Wang Yangming’s WorldviewChapter 2 Creating a Secret Chamber for Your SoulChapter 3 Personality Is the Source of HappinessChapter 4 Knowing One’s Original SelfChapter 5 Retrieve the Joy of MindPart III The Unity of Knowledge and Action: Knowledge Is the Beginning of Action and Action Is the Culmination of KnowledgeChapter 6 Constructing One’s Own World of MeaningChapter 7 Work Is Self-CultivationChapter 8 Constructing an Innermost Being Impervious to Both Adoration and InsultChapter 9 Transcending SufferingPart IV Exercise Conscience: Investigate for Knowledge, Act with Virtue and Eradicate EvilChapter 10 Characteristics of the Four Great Values of ConscienceChapter 11 The Journey Towards Self-CultivationChapter 12 Realizing Spiritual Transcendence in the Mundane WorldChapter 13 The Key to the World of the Mind: The Four Rules of ConscienceChapter 14 Establishing the Will to Achieve Sagehood