A popular "Koan" goes... "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" In fact - this is actually a mis-quote. The original by Hakuin (1686 to 1769) goes... "In clapping both hands a sound is heard. What is the sound of one hand?" I know the answer Does anyone else? If you DO then you will realise of course that it is impossible to give the answer here
I suppose in a way it can yes - but that wouldn't be experiential - You'd need to have found it rather than read it to get the benefit from understanding it. I'm not looking for someone to write what it is - just interested to see if anyone has the knowledge, or even more important the understanding to have gained the knowledge. You see - if someone WERE to say yes- it is ---- "blah blah blah" - I wouldn't comment. I would require them to show me
"In clapping both hands a sound is heard. What is the sound of one hand?" depends what the hand is doing.
Surely 'clapping', by definition involves two hands, and there is no such thing as clapping with one hand? Hope that's not the answer, cos it took less than 15 seconds to come up with that?
Hmm, I CAN clap with one hand, unusually, but the thing is I got a small confession to go along with it...figure it out |Cain|