 Is our ordinary mind then also the True Mind? No, our daily minds—discrete, empirical, limited, individual, separate minds—are mere phenomena, appearances, manifestations of the True Mind. For there is no cause or effect for the True Mind. It is neither in space nor in time. It has no beginning and end. Again inspired by the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, Chinul claims that all phenomena are mutually interdependent and interpenetrating. For him, then, in the mirror of one’s mind, there is    