Cico was born in March 1986 in China. In 2014, he moved to Amsterdam superficially for the purpose of doing a PhD, but deeply out of disillusionment with the environment in China and curiosity for the Western world. However, after moving to Amsterdam, curiosity soon turned into a stark reality: egoism, individualism, tribalism, and commercialism, with their utter verbalness, high-profile self-expressions, blatant nonsense, and pettiness in the Western world, keep shocking him. 

The deep clash with both the Chinese and Western realities with their irreconcilable contradiction, the narrow and questionable focus in each scientific field he witnessed, and the deep sense of horror for the pervading atmosphere of artificiality and mechanicality in the human world cornered him to inquire into himself deeply and completely. His consciousness went through a mutation, and a simple fact was revealed to him: the self, the “me”, the ego is the root cause of all human issues and man-made disasters; the self, with its numerous destructive patterns, is a physical danger that the vast majority of people fail to see due to their deep-seated self-centered living.

In the face of this physical danger all over the place, he has no choice but to live what he comes upon by being a light to himself. The gathered energy, which is passion and compassion, let him start the lifetime journey of teaching and sharing (in both English and Chinese) to facilitate human beings to observe themselves completely and see the light. He sees that he cannot change anyone but only facilitates anyone eager to transform themselves completely. His activities have been wrapped up under “Mindiverse” since 2018. It became a charity in Amsterdam in 2021, which Cico and his collaborator Joyce Liu have been taking care of.