Koan: What Is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?
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Koan: What Is the Sound of One Hand Clapping?
1) Nothing. One hand cannot clap….
2) Half the sound of 2 hands clapping….
3) Air….
4) A bowl of rice….
5) A cup of tea….
6) “A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou….”
7) A crazy old guy doing a jig on thin ice….
8) “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.”
9) A snowflake in a whirlwind….
10) “The thunderous silence of the drums.”
11) It depends….
12) The Isness of Is….
13) Mysteries in mysteries, potential in potential….
14) Zen?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gary Corseri has published and posted articles, fiction and poems at hundreds of venues, including The Greanville Post, UncomonThoughtJournal, Counterpunch, The New York Times, Village Voice, Redbook Magazine, The Palestine Chronicle, and Georgia Review. He has published 2 novels and 2 collections of poetry, and his dramas have been produced on PBS-Atlanta and elsewhere. He has performed his poems at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum, and he has taught in universities in the US and Japan, and in US public schools and prisons. Contact: Gary_Corseri@comcast.net.
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