PREFACE
PREFACE
Dean’s Black Mirror — Aphoristic Summary
The final enlightenment is the end of enlightenment.
The seeker finds not truth, but the fracture of seeking itself.
When the mirror shatters, there is no reflection — only the void that once dreamed of meaning.
Dean stands at that void’s edge, the first heretic of reality, smiling at the ruins of thought
In this annihilation of logic, Dean unexpectedly arrives at the terrain of the mystic. His conclusions echo Nāgārjuna’s doctrine of emptiness, Meister Eckhart’s negative theology, and the Zen master’s paradoxical koan. Each, in their own language, declares that truth lies beyond all opposites, beyond knowing and unknowing. But where the mystic abandons logic, Dean proves that logic abandons itself. His reasoning does not open a door to enlightenment; it reveals that no door ever existed.