![]() ![]() Hug and smile a lot (I’m summarising wildly) and you’ll find other people hugging and smiling more. Change one side of that relationship and the other side has to change because the relationship has changed.’ ‘…everything is in a relationship to everything else … if you change one side of a relationship you change both sides … We don’t have to wait for both sides of a relationship to participate before bringing about beneficial change. Then, he applies that principle to human relationships: One hand doesn’t need the other to move in order to make the sound. The sound of one hand clapping is, he posits, the same as that of two hands clapping. ![]() The author of a post on that site, Serge Kahili King,* suggests an answer to the riddle. Which, apparently, is a Hawaiian word meaning ‘secret’ which also alludes to the ‘esoteric wisdom of Polynesia’. My prize was a Hawaiian website devoted to ‘Huna’. ![]() Get the tape deck working.Īs I listened, to Enlightenment, I knew I had to find out more.Īnd so I delved into that tombola of strangenesses, the search engine. That it was silence.īut as we all know, one should never assume.Īnd now Van Morrison was stuck in my head. We weren’t shouting, throwing missiles or tearing up the old cobbles.Īnd over a good brew of hot strong tea, later that day, it came to me. There wasn’t much singing – just the Star Spangled Banner led by some exiles who knew the words And by the time I left I’d made a new friend. I was in Liverpool, in the company of my husband, my friend Heather and hundreds of peaceable strangers, women, men, children, babies – and dogs. On Saturday, a cold, drab winter’s day I spent two hours standing around on Victorian cobbles outside a huge neo-classical building. I’ll come back to it later.įirst, though, I ought to tell you why I was pondering it this weekend. So, set aside your analytical skills and your egotistical will and think about that question. ‘… a succinct paradoxical statement or question used as a meditation discipline for novices … The effort to “solve” a koan is intended to exhaust the analytic intellect and the egoistic will, readying the mind to entertain an appropriate response on the intuitive level.’ In fact the question is derived from a Zen ‘koan’ – a concept described by Encyclopedia Britannica online, thus: Or you could, like me, have heard it asked in Van Morrison’s song, Enlightenment. If you recognise that question you could be into Zen philosophy. ![]()
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