Edgar, Bill!, Chris, Group,
The actual (real) koan reads:
"What is the sound of one hand?"
The "clapping" is not original, and is incorrect to insert. Not only
incorrect, but misleading. It's a 1950's bit of b.s. appended by some American
or English illiterate non-practitioner.
The koan has nothing to do with hands, nor with sounds, either.
That's not obvious, perhaps, until you actually work hard with this koan in
your practice, and experience a breakthrough.
When you experience the breakthrough, you will know the sound of one hand. And
you can demonstrate it. And you had better! ;-)
--Joe
> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote:
>
> Chris and Bill,
>
> Example of the solution of a koan.
>
> What's the sound of one hand clapping?
>
> The solution is the recognition that language is capable of expressing
> irrational meaningless syntax.
[snip]
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