There truly is an answer this, as well as some other Koans.
Think now people!
2007-01-07 04:08:47 · 17 answers · asked by Steve G 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Oh come on Lulu....close but no cigar.
2007-01-07 04:19:22 · update #1
Six answers so far....no one is laughing hard enough yet.
2007-01-07 04:21:30 · update #2
"cl"
or, naturally,
"ap"
2007-01-07 05:04:19 · answer #1 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
silence
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 cycle of birth and death is overturned. The treasure accumulation of the Three Bodies and the Four Wisdoms is taken away, and the miraculous realms of the Six Supernatural Powers and Three Insights is transcended.
2007-01-07 06:01:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah! Snap your fingers, use to clap like this during cafe performances with beatniks Dobby Gills in 60's TV show. Possibly the singular form, clapp.
2007-01-07 04:17:23 · answer #3 · answered by Chuck C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you snap your fingers, or if the air catches your one hand. Otherwise there is no sound made by one hand clapping.
2007-01-07 04:24:40 · answer #4 · answered by Lesha a Canadian. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the same sond a tree makes when it falls in the woods with no one around to hear it.
2007-01-07 04:20:38 · answer #5 · answered by Marmalade P. Vestibule III 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sound of one hand clapping : 'waan hen kleping'
that's how it sounds through anyone reading and saying your question ;)
2007-01-07 04:37:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anthony R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Thud," "Clap," "Bang" the same sound as two hands clapping. (The twist in this riddle is that the asker says sound, correct?)
2007-01-07 04:42:39 · answer #7 · answered by Ray Ray 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one hand cant clap, it can only wave in the air
2007-01-07 04:11:13 · answer #8 · answered by dlin333 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
clap
2007-01-07 04:11:44 · answer #9 · answered by lulu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same as any other clapping sound. If it is clapping, then it is clapping!
Cogito ergo sum.... applaudo ergo applaudit.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
2007-01-07 05:21:45 · answer #10 · answered by oneclassicmaiden 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
same sound when a person gets a slap in one cheek .
2007-01-07 04:43:51 · answer #11 · answered by crazy suzy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋