Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index.
Riding the elusive ox of Zen: problems of definition -- First encounters of a distant kind -- The Zen koan: speaking the unspeakable -- "Does a dog have Buddha nature or not?" Nihilism, absolutism, and "Joshu's mu" -- Sand in rice: one koan, infinite possibilities -- Unconscious and conscious in Zen and psychoanalysis -- The crazy cloud of attention and inattention: meditation review -- Sense and non-sense -- The gap between: being, knowing, and the liminal in between -- Unitive experience and the pervasive object.