Joe, Bah! Humbug!
Edgar On Jun 8, 2013, at 5:46 PM, Joe wrote: > 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] > >
