In order to exposit his point of view, the author has found many examples from Chinese mythology, religion, Zen, philosophy and modern people's "unknotting their hearts" to explain his "Chinese ways of pacifying the mind."
為了說明他的論點，作者從中國的神話、民俗、宗教、禪學、哲學、處世小品、以及現代人的「解心術」中，找到了許許多多的例子，來說明他所謂的「中國人的寬心術」。