Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind

Steven Laycock is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toledo. He is co-editor of Essays for a Phenomenological Theology. An active member of the Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom, he has, for many years, been engaged in Buddhist meditative practice.

Acknowledgments An Incident at Wang-Mei Shan

Prelude in the Key of Emptiness

Frameworks
Mirroring and Representation
A Paradox of Phenomenological Optics
The Dialectic of Mirroring
The Thesis of Phenomenal Undecidability
Com(mens)uration

I. MIND AS MIRROR

The Mirrorless Mirror: Reflections on Buddhist Dialectic

Analytic and Dialectic Phenomeno-Logic
Ex/planation
Absolute and Relative "Space"
Reflective Negativity
Buddhist Dialectics
Distinguished Distinctions
Archaic Distinctions
Deconstructing the Mirror
The Mirror of Mind
Reflections
Visible Invisibility
Instantiation and Manifestation
Analytic Thought
The Thing-in-Itself
Bivalence and the Real

The Pathless Path: Reflections on Buddhist Meditative Practice

Tranquility and Insight
The Formal Absorptions
Toward a Critique of Pure Suffering
Discursive Thought
The Formless Absorptions
The Hierarchy of Concretion
Infinite Divisibility
Dependent Co-origination
The Lotus and the Chiasm
The Body and the Bodhi Tree

II. THE MIRRORING OF MIND

The Gateless Gate: Reflections on the Methodology of Reflection

Phenomenology and Its "Word"
Mirror as Metaphor
The "Madness" of Phenomenological Method
Presuppositionlessness
The Modes of Reflection
Reflections on Reflection
The Eidetic Reduction
Hyper-Reflection
The Great Doubt
The Transformative Phenomenology of Liberation

Mindless Minding: Reflections on Intentionality

The Mystery of Consciousness
The Rupture of Immanence
Reduction and the Immanence of Intentionality
The World-Horizon
The Ego as Reflection
The Ego as Gestalt
Diary of a Moon Gazer

Notes

Bibliography

Index of Subjects

Index of Names