![]() ![]() Obviously, if there is a sound, it is the sound of God's oneness loving, and it could never be heard with our outer ears, but more only ever silently felt, or heard by the inner ears of our own hearts. "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" This particular koan is a simple enough question, indeed. Only by silencing the noise of our minds, can we ever begin to achieve this. We should silence our mind, and feel the truth, as it arises silently from within our hearts. We should never seek the answer, by taking it further away in our minds, or with our minds. ![]() In this statement, is the secret of all koans as well. Hakuin once said that, not knowing how near the truth is, most people will often seek it far away. Whether this koan really originated with him or not, we can perhaps not ever be totally sure. Hakuin Ekaku was a famous Japanese Zen master, who lived within the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thank you for the question.The koan of the paradoxical idea of one hand being able to clap, has been attributed to the Zen master Hakuin. Unfortunately my googling has not show me much more. I replied to hopefully get some discussion going on this interesting topic. Of course whenever you talk about clapping and Buddhism you get the sound of one hand clapping, a traditional koan. Of the elderly), and the western style handshake is ubiquitous among ![]() Is today rarely used (except during festivals, weddings and birthdays The traditional Chinese ‘handshake’ consists of interlocking theįingers of the hands and waving them up and down several times. waving fingers."Ī Chinese tradition for shaking hands involves waving hands up and down Well there is a link to a book of etiquette that says "Hindu hosts are. More,” he explained later, “so I reached the soundless sound.” ForĪlmost a year he pondered what the sound of one hand might be.Īt last Toyo entered true meditation and transcended all sounds. The sound of one hand was not the locusts.įor more than ten times Toyo visited Mokurai with different sounds. In vain Toyo meditated to hear the sound of one hand. “That is the sound of dripping water, but not the sound of When he next appeared before his teacher, he imitated dripping water. “What can the sound of one hand be?” He happened to hear some water Thinking that such music might interrupt, Toyo moved his abode to a quiet place. The next evening, when his teacher asked him to illustrate the sound of one hand, Toyo Toyo bowed and went to his room to consider this problem. “You can hear the sound of two hands when they clap together,” said Mokurai. Outside the door, and went to sit before the master in respectful silence. He struck the gong to announce his presence, bowed respectfully three times In the evening little Toyo went at the proper time to the threshold of Mokurai’s sanzen “You are too young.”īut the child insisted, so the teacher finally consented. Which they were given koans to stop mind-wandering. Room each morning and evening to receive instruction in sanzen or personal guidence in Toyo saw the older disciples visit the master’s The master of Kennin temple was Mokurai, Silent Thunder. The Sound of One Hand (101 storie Zen -Nyogen Senzaki) That is, in silence we " hear", " see", " understands" or " enlightenment" is many things, but when the mind is being distracted because of the "noise" we do not hear, do not see, do not understand. Ears are hearing is still heard, but absolutely not disturbed mind. The Sound of One Hand = "quiet sound" (Soundless Sound - Emptiness)Īt some point, completely quiet heart that does not even sound that can make us being distracted. ![]()
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