What is the sound of one hand?

[BoarSpear]

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[Garland]

STOP PUNCHIN' THE CLOWN!!!
you're gonna go blind if you keep that shit up...trust me. <-he ain't winkin'
that there is permanent retinal damage.

[BoarSpear]

STOP PUNCHIN' THE CLOWN!!!
you're gonna go blind if you keep that shit up...trust me. <-he ain't winkin'
that there is permanent retinal damage.

not even close but thanx fer playin!

[Freedom]

I worry about my gran. If she's alone in the house and she falls, does she make a sound?

[gong fu]

the sound of one hand clapping,

it can be heard if your fast enough cutting through the air with a strike.

[eXcessiveForce]

there is no hand

[Oreomeister365]

what



the

hell?

[Kenpodog]

I'm not into the "you can only understand if you stop trying to understand" or "you can only understand if you stop thinking about things externally or physically" thing.

This is what I believe:

Adapt!!

With only one hand, you snap you fingers....

[seppuku]

i know what i know and i know that i know nothing that i do not know whilst i know that i know nothing for only if i know nothing can i know anything

try and fight your way through that... not bad for the spur of the moment

if clapping in the woods with one hand, hit a tree and find out

[BoarSpear]

Hehehehe why am i not surprised at the responses

[BoarSpear]

the sound of one hand clapping,

it can be heard if your fast enough cutting through the air with a strike.

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[shaolin-warrior]

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.

[Sagacious Lu]

Ohm

[ddrive]

Probably

Maybe it's like this....

Rick James: Charlie Murphy, what did the 5 fingers say to the face?
Charlie Murphy: What?
Rick James: (smacks him across the face) SMACK!

[blitz]

In clapping as defined in the first post two hands are struck against one another to make a noise.

What is the sound of one of the hands? it is the same as the sound of both of the hands.

The sound of one of the hands is equal to the sound of the other hand, but both hands are required to make the clap. The question is, in a clap does one hand have a seperate defined sound? if it does what is it?

is the clap made up of both the hands?
if the hand was to clap on a piece of wood/a wall/ a thigh would it still be a clap?

I can clap with one hand quite easily, but it's not the same clap that comes from 2 hands.

I say you can't have the sound of one hand separate from the sound of the clap, the clap is 2 equal hands simultaneously clapping each other.