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 FrameworksMirroring and RepresentationA Paradox of Phenomenological OpticsThe Dialectic of MirroringThe Thesis of Phenomenal UndecidabilityCom(mens)uration I. MIND AS MIRROR The Mirrorless Mirror: Reflections on Buddhist Dialectic Analytic and Dialectic Phenomeno-LogicEx/planationAbsolute and Relative "Space"Reflective NegativityBuddhist DialecticsDistinguished DistinctionsArchaic DistinctionsDeconstructing the MirrorThe Mirror of MindReflectionsVisible InvisibilityInstantiation and ManifestationAnalytic ThoughtThe Thing-in-ItselfBivalence and the Real The Pathless Path: Reflections on Buddhist Meditative Practice Tranquility and InsightThe Formal AbsorptionsToward a Critique of Pure SufferingDiscursive ThoughtThe Formless AbsorptionsThe Hierarchy of ConcretionInfinite DivisibilityDependent Co-originationThe Lotus and the ChiasmThe 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 MetaphorThe "Madness" of Phenomenological MethodPresuppositionlessnessThe Modes of ReflectionReflections on ReflectionThe Eidetic ReductionHyper-ReflectionThe Great DoubtThe Transformative Phenomenology of Liberation Mindless Minding: Reflections on Intentionality The Mystery of ConsciousnessThe Rupture of ImmanenceReduction and the Immanence of IntentionalityThe World-HorizonThe Ego as ReflectionThe Ego as GestaltDiary of a Moon Gazer Notes Bibliography Index of Subjects Index of Names

"What I like most about this book is its remarkable breadth, the author's astonishingly thorough mastery of the work of both Buddhist thinkers and Continental phenomenologists, the integrative approach which goes beyond mere comparison and works with basic problems in such a way as to bring in ideas where they are relevant, whatever their source, a fairness and balance in the critical discussion of writers with whom the author may not be in agreement, and the author's success in making even the most abstract problems relevant to everyday life." — Hazel E. Barnes, University of Colorado