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The Mind Not Taken by the World

In an Age of Disorder, Reclaiming Inner Stability with the Diamond Sutra

Fuming Chuang

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English
Fuming Chuang
10 January 2026
The Mind Not Taken by the World is a contemplative reading of the Diamond Sūtra for modern readers-one that speaks not from doctrine, but from direct human experience.

In an age defined by speed, information overload, and constant self-evaluation, many people quietly struggle with the same question humanity has always faced: How can the mind remain steady in a world that never stands still? This book approaches that question not by offering techniques, beliefs, or prescriptions, but by inviting a shift in how we relate to thoughts, emotions, roles, and outcomes.

Drawing on the paradoxical language of the Diamond Sūtra, the book explores ideas such as non-attachment, signlessness, non-self, and impermanence, presenting them as ways of seeing rather than concepts to believe. These ancient insights are placed in dialogue with contemporary perspectives from psychology, mindfulness, and cognitive science-particularly the understanding that suffering often arises not from experience itself, but from how tightly we cling to interpretations, identities, and results.

Rather than treating the sutra as a religious authority, this work reads it as a profound text on human cognition and awareness. Repeated phrases such as ""not abiding,"" ""not taking forms as real,"" and ""non-dual seeing"" are interpreted as invitations to loosen mental fixation and rediscover a more flexible, responsive way of being.

This is not a book about escaping the world. It is about remaining fully present without being carried away by it-meeting success and failure, intimacy and loss, clarity and confusion, without turning them into fixed definitions of the self.

The Mind Not Taken by the World does not ask readers to become someone else. It simply offers a pause-a space to look again, to question habitual assumptions, and to encounter experience as it unfolds.

If this book opens even a slightly different way of seeing, then its purpose has already been fulfilled.
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Imprint:   Fuming Chuang
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   372g
ISBN:   9798233970306
Series:   Dialogue of Easten Wisdom and Modern Life
Pages:   274
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Fu-Ming Chuang is a Taiwanese writer whose creative impulse runs alongside his professional life in the optics consulting and international trade field. Having worked as a consultant and liaison in complex export and coordination operations, he has cultivated a refined attention to structure, detail, and systems. Meanwhile, his academic pursuit in Asia-Pacific Studies lends him sensitivity to history, culture, and regional interconnections. For Fu-Ming, writing is a parallel channel to reality-a way to let imagination stretch beyond the constraints of systems and rules, to explore the inner worlds of his characters. In his storytelling, he weaves mythic elements with human dilemmas, inviting readers to feel both epic tension and the quiet emotional undercurrents of each character. In The Chronicle of the Bronze Tree trilogy, he channels his reflections on cultural inheritance, conflict between civilizations, and personal choice into a narrative that aspires to be more than just an adventure-it is a dialogue between memory and the possible future. Outside his writing desk, he enjoys walking along old mountain trails, poring over folklore, and listening to the whispers of wind through ancient trees. To him, writing is a conversation with time and an exchange of signals with worlds yet to unfold.

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