Re: Hand clap Zen koan
Pasha Paterson (gpaterso@richmond.edu)
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 12:16:55 -0500
The "meaning" of a Zen koan is implicitly opaque, and thus never revealed
in the _Nine_, but Salinger cleverly alludes to it in "Teddy" when Teddy
"clapped his hand against his ear" to get the water out of it.
At 04:02 11/02/98 -0500, Paul Janse wrote:
>Can anyone explain the meaning of the zen koan about the sound of one hand
>clapping (the motto of Nine Stories)? The first time I read it I found it
>witty and interesting, but the more I think about it, the more meaningless
>it becomes to me. Or is this exactly its point?
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