About the author
Fei Yong is a Chinese-language author about whom limited public information is available; his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background are not clearly recorded. Judging from the seven works held in the collection, he has long centered his writing on traditional Chinese culture and classical philosophy. He has edited and annotated Liaofan's Four Lessons, expounded the idea of the unity of knowledge and action in Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind, and drawn methods of cultivating the mind from poetry and the ways ancients conducted themselves. Figures such as Tao Yuanming and Su Dongpo often appear in his writing, and through their life choices he discusses spiritual grounding for modern readers. His books tend toward essayistic philosophical reading, combining classic interpretation with the flavor of prose miscellany. Aimed at general readers, his writing is plain and approachable, with an emphasis on bringing Eastern philosophy into everyday mental cultivation.
Written (11)
Rating 3.9★ In Poetry There Is a Way of Cultivating the Mind 费勇 Anhui People's Publishing House · 2025 This book is the distilled work of Professor Fei Yong's 30 years of deep study of the spiritual predicaments of the Chinese people. From more than 30 … Rating 3.7★ Be an Idler: Su Dongpo's Therapeutic Philosophy 费勇 Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2025 Becoming a Person of Leisure: Su Dongpo's Philosophy of Healing is Professor Fei Yong's reading of Su Dongpo from a modern perspective. Su Dongpo is a… Rating 3.7★ Fei Yong's Traditional Chinese Studies Series (5-Book Set) 费勇 · 2025 Tao Yuanming's wine brews the poetry of everyday life; Wang Yangming's light dispels the fog within the mind; Yuan Liaofan's pen rewrites the trajecto… Liaofan's Family Instructions Yuan Huang (Yuan Liaofan) / 费勇 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2025 Liaofan's Family Instructions takes as its core text the family letter "Common Sayings for instructing a son" (Xun'er Sushuo), written by the Ming dyn… Rating 4.2★ A Detailed Explanation of Liaofan's Four Lessons Yuan Huang (Yuan Liaofan) / 费勇 Yunnan People's Publishing House · 2024 The Ming dynasty thinker Yuan Liaofan draws on a lifetime of learning, experience, and insight to expound the principle that "my fate is determined by… Rating 4.1★ Unity of Knowledge and Action: Fei Yong on Wang Yangming's Philosophy of Mind 费勇 Shaanxi Sanqin Publishing House · 2024 A foundational work on Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind by Professor Fei Yong, whose mind-cultivation course has drawn over 50 million listeners. He… Rating 3.9★ Life Is Really No Match for That Cup of Wine of Tao Yuanming 费勇 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 Lifestyle mentor Professor Fei Yong decodes Tao Yuanming—the man, his poems, his wine—and shows us that: · a better way of living exists · Tao Yuanmin… Rating 4.1★ Liaofan's Four Lessons Yuan Huang (Yuan Liaofan) / 费勇 Shaanxi Sanqin Publishing House · 2021 Professor Fei Yong's appraisal of Yuan Liaofan's Liaofan's Four Lessons: "Because it was written for his descendants, it is especially sincere—he stra… Rating 4.2★ The Undepressed Life: A Mind-Cultivation Course on the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 费勇 East China Normal University Press · 2013 The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is the only Chan Buddhist text spoken by a Chinese monk and honored as a "sutra." It records the life of Hui… Rating 4.1★ The Diamond Sutra: A Mind-Training Course for Living Without Anxiety 费勇 East China Normal University Press · 2013 The Diamond Sutra, a text of just over five thousand characters and honored as "king of all sutras," records the dialogue between the Buddha and Subhu… Rating 4.0★ How to Live Without Depression: A Mind-Training Course on the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch 费勇 East China Normal University Press · 2013 This book is one volume in cultural scholar Fei Yong's "Mind-Training Course" series. Taking the Chan classic Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch as…Publishers
Shaanxi Sanqin Publishing HouseYunnan People's Publishing HouseEast China Normal University PressAnhui People's Publishing HouseJiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing HouseZhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House