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[monotoneargyle]

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

Comments

[gonadsinrain]

wind.

you know what that reminds me of?

[monotoneargyle]

WATER! EARTH! FIRE!
captain planet...

yeah he's a hero.

but it still doesn't remind me of rock gardens.

[parlante]

i don't know, but it looks funny doesn't it?

tsk tsk

[monotoneargyle]

avoiding the qustion, are we?
*fails*

what is this? the weakest link?

[parlante]

yes, I'm guilty as charged...avoiding the question posed, as are you.

[mrjasen]

my guess would be silence, or "no solution".

NO!

[monotoneargyle]

You fail the Zen test

[anonymous]

What is the Sound of the Single Hand? When you clap together both hands a sharp sound is heard; when you raise the one hand there is neither sound nor smell. Is this the High Heaven of which Confucius speaks? Or is it the essentials of what Yamamba describes in these words: "The echo of the completely empty valley bears tidings heard from the soundless sound?" This is something that can by no means be heard with the ear. If conceptions and discriminations are not mixed within it and it is quite apart from seeing, hearing, perceiving, and knowing, and if, while walking, standing, sitting, and reclining, you proceed straightforwardly without interruption in the study of this koan, you will suddenly pluck out the karmic root of birth and death and break down the cave of ignorance. Thus you will attain to a peace in which the phoenix has left the golden net and the crane has been set free of the basket. At this time the basis of mind, consciousness, and emotion is suddenly shattered; the realm of illusion with its endless sinking in the

hmm

[monotoneargyle]

who art thou?

Re: hmm

[anonymous]

i dont't know you. oh and i didn't write all that shit. i just copied/pasted.

[danceyouhoe]

thats hot.

no....

[monotoneargyle]

not the answer, but i still added you. mc hammer is hot, though.