Re: Hand clap Zen koan/we must get help
-Uriel Ushas. (lime6@rocketmail.com)
Mon, 02 Nov 1998 20:12:13 -0800 (PST)
---Paul Janse <PJanse@compuserve.com> 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?
>
> Paul Janse
>
>From the sea came a hand,
ignorant as a penny,
troubled with the salt of its mother,
mute with the silence of the fishes,
quick with the altars of the tides,
and God reached out of His mouth
and called it man.
Up came the other hand
and God called it woman.
The hands applauded.
And this was no sin.
It was as it was meant to be.
-Anne Sexton (from Two Hands)
hope that helps!
in celebration of my uterus,
john cage.
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