What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the color of clear? What is the color of burnt black?

the sound of hand clapping is like a pat , pat on the back.


the color of clear is icegreen water, the color of burnt black is charcol tar .What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the color of clear? What is the color of burnt black?
There are no answers to these koans Rimpoche.What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the color of clear? What is the color of burnt black?
Great question! Here goes: The Sound of Silence; You'll have to ask the Invisible Man; and The color you see deep inside a dark cave in the middle of the night when there is no moon shining.
Quiet


Invisible


Soot
a much quiter clap, opaque nothingness, ash
half the sound of two hands clapping (you would imagine), clear is clear and burnt black is ash black...





i'd imagine
1. quiet clapping


2. all and none


3. kunte kinte

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