@@natefactor4336 That's true. I should have put in shameless plug of me saying that I filmed it and posted on my UA-cam channel which people can go watch....but it's too late and that would be degrading myself.... totally above that.
Yes. It is beautiful. It suggests that happiness can be found when I no longer want or seek happiness at all. How could it be? And why do we feel somehow warm, comfortable and right hearing that? I like this one from the Bible: "Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these".
In western (American/BCA) Jodoshinshu Buddhism (which does not have monks nor does it typically employ koans or meditation) the flag story goes as follows: During meditation one monk broke the silence, observing aloud, "Flag is flapping". Another corrected, "Wind is flapping ". A third monk chimed in, "No, the mind is flapping". Finally, the head monk broke their attachnent to the debate, saying: "Mouths are flapping".
The one at 3:07 is the heart of all koans and of religion itself. It symbolizes uniting the left and right hemispheres of the brain by grounding awareness in the absolute present, combining memory and intuition into one, calming the waves of binary thinking. That is how we build the pyramid of understanding that leads to enlightenment. So while the path is a 'pathless path' that isn't simple by any means, the means of staying on it is absolutely simple, the absolute simplicity of letting go of mental dialogue and emotional resistance to the present.
The one about the flag is probably where the spoon bender kid's speech in The Matrix comes from, right? So he's already used it to crash the machines XD
"Unlike real court cases, koans were intentionally incomprehensible - they were surprising, surreal, and frequently contradicted themselves" oh dear, I may have some bad news for you about 'real' court cases.
The distinguishing word is "intentionally", yet again that reminds me of a joke. A bad lawyer can make a two day case go on for months. A good lawyer can make it go on for much longer.
"I left the traveler there, are you still carrying her?" What a profound insight, applicable to so many of life's troubles. We'we all been the outraged monk at some point, still being weighted down by the negative emotions of troubles past.
Hello Magnus, I read a couple of poems out at a zoom meeting last night to mixed/apathetic reactions. I carried some of those reactions through to this morning but now I'm leaving them behind. They just don't matter - it's all ego driven daftness on my part. I like leaving the traveler behind and will certainly be doing it much more in the future.
12th century is more like Getting killed by a plague or die in war. The ideas of the zen koans didn't spread across the globe in 12th century. However, we immediatly learned the existence of this thinking thanks to the internet. Just like this thinking or other briliant notions, some popular but temporary things evantually come. I think we only see the negative effects of the globolization or popularity. On the other hand, with this brialliant tool, the internet, we can learn more than a proffesor knows in 12th century. We just have to accept this challenges and crate more notions that can change our life
"Says that Koans don't have a singular answer, and the point is to consider all the different possible meanings to broaden your understanding of the complexity of our world" " tells you one possible interpretation and encourages you to consider more" Zachary Goodman: "well that was simple, so I guess there is not need for me to think about it"
Jancristoff Ruiz he doesn't even explain the paradoxes. This whole video was put together by someone who has never met with an authentic teacher. Don't get too hung up on it.
Practice zen. Meditate. Let go of the umbrella. You don't need the umbrella. You don't need anything. Not even life. Live like a cloud. Believe that you are a cloud in flesh.
I remember studying these a little in high school. One of my favorites: A calligraphy master has a promising young student who aspires to be a master like him one day. The master assigns his student to master a certain character and show it to him once he's mastered it. The student returns the next day, carrying a piece of parchment with ten handsome characters. The master looks at the parchment and disregards it immediately. Puzzled, the student returns home. The next day, the student returns with dozens of elegant copies of the same character. Once again, the master turns him away. The student is confused and becoming frustrated. The student shows up the next day, exhausted, carrying a sheet of hundreds of stunningly beautiful identical characters. The master, still not impressed, turns away without a word. Infuriated, the student quickly dashes the character onto a piece of parchment and shouts, "how about now?!" The master turns around, looks him in the eye, and smiles. "It's perfect."
Belal DarkneSS That sounds pretty woke on the surface, but trust me, stay in school. The information, at some point, will be useful one way or the other.
I would like the entire Blue Cliff Records and Gateless Gate done in this style, please. The thing about Koans is that they aren't just weird riddles, most of them have some nuanced but fairly straightforward point about ethics or ontology. The traveling monks one says, pretty unambiguously, that compassionate action takes precedence over monastic rules. The rules exist to help detach from desires, but attachment to the rules themselves misses the point of non-attachment in the first place. The monk 'leaving the traveler behind' also illustrates what it means to act in a way that is compassionate but detached, which is sort of the ethical paradox Buddhism seeks to navigate. Of course, that's all my interpretation, but interpretation is basically the point of Koans. One of my favorites (paraphrased) is about a monk who's saving up to construct a statue of the Buddha or a new temple or something, but then there's a drought in his region, so he spends the money he's saved up to help feed the people. After the drought is over he begins saving up again, but then there's a flood, and he spends the money to repair the damages. Finally, the third time he's able to save up and have the statue built. Later, two monks are visiting the temple, and the younger one remarks to the older, "isn't this a magnificent representation of the Buddha?" The older monk thinks for a moment, then nods. "It's good, but the first two were better."
That last Koan is absolutely beautiful. It touches on man's true nature. Enlightenment comes from understanding the meaning of that last Koan. That is what will give you Moksha.
It’s humbling to acknowledge that there are many mysteries in life that will likely never be solved and that humbling can be comforting. We’re part of much larger processes that are beyond the capability of our minds. It’s awe-inspiring...
Yeah I mean technically a mystery that can be solved is not a mystery, it’s a problem. In terms of a mystery, the only problem is our desire to solve it; because we’re obsessed with knowing, which is always only a fragmented part of the Whole.
The beautiful stranger one was brilliant! The one monk, did the right thing and made peace with that decision, despite it being against the law. The other monk was still obsessing over the other one breaking the law, and thus continued to carry her which actually caused him to commit a greater crime then the first. That actually sums up lawful good and neutral good, pretty well. Neutral do is doing what's right, regardless of what the law says, and being ok with it. Lawful good is following the law as accurately as possible so long as the law itself is "good." Though, what one perceives as "good" changes per person.
Doing good according to law is lawful good, doing good according to what is right is neutral good, doing good according to "yourself" is chaotic good, as whats good for you may be good or bad for other :) there is a bit of understanding in this sentences
Uzi I disagree strongly. Lawful good is not good according to law, they are good... and they also follow established rules. Chaotic good is not good according to their own rules, they are good... but they actively break established rules. What you described was lawful neutral, neutral good, and true neutral. Do you even know what you’re talking about? If you don’t play D&D, I don’t blame you, but you’ve got it wrong. And I am correct. I literally have the book in front of me.
Yeah, now instead of monk law, imagine marriage law. A husband and a wife, the husband cheats, the wife confronts him about it and the husband's answer is: "I left her there. Are you still carrying her?" How very convenient.
@@littlesometin he might have left her but he carries the consequences, you can't leave the consequences cause his wife confronting his is itself a consequence of his action. That's what I like to think.
The second story about the flag rippling is actually very similar to "If there's no one to hear a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound?". The first monk notice that the flag is flapping and the second monk inferred from the flag flapping that the wind is blowing. Hence, he argues that the wind is the "cause", without the wind the flag will not be flapping. (see cause & effect in Buddhism) The third monk interjects that it is only because both their minds/hearts "noticed" & "cling" to the phenomenon, can they make such statements. Their perception/minds is the "cause" of the flag/wind being noticed. Ultimately, it's the one who perceives create the illusion of reality and the Buddhism doctrines aim to detach oneself from relying on perception to the physical and spiritual. These perceptions/minds are attachments that create what we perceive as "reality" and with these perceptions alone we can't see beyond this "perceived reality". Some modern culture parallel would be "If the universe is a simulated reality, will you be able to tell?" "How do you know if you're not living in the 'Matrix'?" At least in quantum physics, events exist as a probability. The waveform collapse into one singular event if someone tries to observe it, hence the "perception creates certainty/reality".
I hate descriptions like these "break the brain." Koans aren't designed to break anything; they're designed to free you FROM your brain, to "think like a rock," as in Japanese Zen Buddhism sword fighting when you stop thinking and exist solely in the present, reacting only to the immediate and flowing from one perfect present moment to the next.
• First monk: "the flag flapping" • Second monk: "the wind flapping" • Third monk: "the mind flapping" • The drunkard laying on the ground nearby: "their mouths flapping.."
vaspeter2600 it highlights the unfortunate and deeply ironic tendency of Buddhists to use Buddhism to strengthen their ego, rather than to subdue it. A battle I lose with startling regularity. The key here is that in this iteration, there are 3 Buddhists philosophers and 1 enlightened guy.
I took this to mean the monk was stewing in his mind about the situation and his own indignation the the other monk would break a religious law. The koan reminds me of the parable of the Good Samaritan or of the story of king David entering the Temple and giving the Show Bread to his soldiers to eat, a story which Jesus related when he and his disciples gathered stalks of wheat to eat on the Sabbath. The koan about the waving flag seems to be speaking about the mind and ego flapping, unable to see beyond it.
alexandra galici that’s only because you value what you specifically consider as “progress” in the first place (which may not be the same to others). Yes, their culture may have some flaws by your standards, but surely, to them, yours have too. In the end is a question of what you and your society value, and it’s subjective as it can get.
alexandra galici Dizang asked Xiushan, “Where do you come from?” Xiushan said, “From the South.” Dizang said, “How is Buddhism in the South these days?” Xiushan said, “There is extensive discussion”” Dizang said, “How can that compare to me here planting the fields and making rice to eat?” Xiushan said, “What can you do about the world?” Dizang said, “What do you call the world?” Dizang asked Xiushan, “Where do you come from?” Xiushan said, “From the South.” Dizang said, “How is Buddhism in the South these days?” Xiushan said, “There is extensive discussion”” Dizang said, “How can that compare to me here planting the fields and making rice to eat?” Xiushan said, “What can you do about the world?” Dizang said, “What do you call the world?” - Book of Serenity
alexandra galici real progress? what does that even mean? maybe if we had adopted buddhism and hinduism early on, we might have made a different and better progress. we don't really know. Just b.c we are here right now doesn't mean we wouldn't be somewhere similar or better with other philosophies.
Bird sounds are like whistles. Does that mean they are whistling? Or are they singing? Or talking? They may sound the same, but they are not the same. The two hand clap may sound the same as a one hand clap, but does that mean they are the same thing? A recording makes the same sound as a singer singing, but the recording isn't singing. Perhaps what you are doing with one hand to make the same sound as a clap from two hands is not actually a clap, but something else.
"Never use the word never." “I have freely chosen to embrace determinism” "There is no truth." “You should not judge” “The scientific method is the only means of knowing truth” “History is unknowable” “Language cannot carry meaning” “What's true for you isn’t true for me”
If “the scientific method is the only means of knowing truth” then you wouldn't be able to understand that statement itself, because it takes something other than the scientific method to understand it.
@@id2028 if wet means enveloped in water then water is wet bcs atoms of h2o are surrounded by other atoms of h2o and if u have only 1 atom of h2o then it has to be in a gas state so its no longer water. Water is always wet
ahmed amir your daughter is hungry. She hasn't eaten all day and has a stomach ache. Do you tell her "do not try and find food, only try and realize the truth; there is no pain?"
I was introduced to this concept in university by an english professor, who pointed out that the famous Robert Frost poem about the two roads is a bit of a koan. Once one chooses a path, one cannot know how the others would truly go (unless one actually went down them), meaning the author is arguably lying that his choice made 'all the difference', since we don't truly know the outcomes of our choices, even if we think we do, in part because every choice has larger ramifications that aren't easy to predict. For example, what if you made a 'better' choice, but luck wasn't in your favour, and things go poorly? Was it the right choice? Technically it wasn't, but arguably it was... though in life, you'd probably prefer to have made the better choice over the 'technically correct' choice!
Monk: "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" Me: **rapidly slaps all my fingers against that palm over and over like a buffoon** Monk: **Disappointed head shaking**
Thanks you Ted-Ed for always making such amazing videos on interesting topics with such good animation! It makes learning so much more interesting and fun! Could you please make a video on borderline personality disorder?
Weird fact, despite this being a mentioned as a Chinese practice, kōan (こうあん) is the Japanese reading for the word. The Chinese reading is still gong’an (and written as 公案 in both languages). Wouldn’t be surprised if these practices existed in both cultures though as both countries are Buddhist countries and had a lot to do with each other throughout history.
No one NEEDS answers to the universe, but seeking truth is more for the journey than the end, that's the point, you can never find the truth so you have an infinite purpose, always discovering something new, each new discovery leading to new technologies and understandings that help with increasing the longevity and enjoyability of life, while also leading to new questions allowing for us to continue our journey without ever having to worry about running out of things to do. And if somehow one day we did find the truth of it all, we would know enough to do anything, anytime, anywhere and let our infinitely generating imaginations create whatever we wanted to create.
Yeah even though the monk with the "traveler" said what he said that doesn't suddenly absolve him of what he did and just deflected it. It is true that the other monk may have been holding on to that but it is not explained whether or not holding grudges/questioning/judging others isn't okay for them to do. In the second one it doesn't even matter. If there were a flag there then it was the flag moving, plain and simple. You cannot see wind moving. You can understand that wind MOVES flags but not actually see it in place of a flag. The third monks answer there is also just an aside where he comments that they're essentially "thinking" but that still doesn't change the subject at hand: the flag pole/flag. I'd like to hear more, hopefully they're actually more "paradoxical" than these.
See, willing to assume we both live in a "western society", these koans are really beyond us, since we live in a post-enlightenment world. We can't grab hold of their entire meaning.
This feels like one of the animators here is a veteran if the old Ren and Stimpy show. I kept expecting a Log commercial or a a weirdly drawn random shot of a close-up booger.
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Buddhist proverbs and teachings always amaze me, I still remember the riddle played by three well-known monks: Chinlu, Chinawa and Chingas, about living and loving life no matter what the circumstances may be.
"For these monks, blinding seeking answers was a vice to overcome, and learning to accept the mysteries of existence was the true path to enlightenment." Modern science would not have been possible for another 10,000 years with that attitude! And as cute as these riddles are, science has enlightened us much, much more.
When I love animations it draws me in like this video did. There animators followed a rule I found in “Ren & Stempy”. Another animation series I love, including their banded episodes. 🥰
I love this kind of thinking, it's very easeful to my head. - It's not because you have 100 problems that makes your life difficult, it's because you have a problem with your 100 problems and making them 101 instead -
Somewhat yes, QM is a concept since forever. It's just a name. Who's to say it wasn't partially discovered and designated differently many times in the past.
Adam Latosiński Good point. However, if we'd think we know everything, we wouldn't come looking. So there's merit to being open to not knowing. Which writer said we are floating on an ocean of knowledge/information? The more you come to know, the more you realize how little you know. And then of course, there are the fundamental questions of the how and why of existence.
If every mystery was solved, and every question throughout time and history was finally given an answer, there would only be one that shall ever remain... "Now what?"
It is my personal belief that this is attainable and desirable. Although the question "Now what?" have no definitive answer. That is the answer is "whatever you want".
@@AleksoLaĈevalo999 im not here to say you're wrong, but we didnt even know why living beings live, why are they alive. And also, the beginning of the universe
@@dudep504 First of all, "living" is not a state of matter but just a concept created by us to easily describe complex configurations of matter which interact with each other to produce copies of themselves which are not made by humans. And we cannot know at the moment if the beginning of the universe is unknowable if there even is a beginning in the traditional sense.
@@mobychoc By living in the moment and accepting life as it is. Buddhists don't just desire to stop desiring. They accept desires with friendly compassion. And then the desires go, as is the natural flow of life.
TheCookieCrusader the one that isnt the thumb (some people use the index and others the middle). When you snap its that finger striking the fatty tissue at the base of the thumb that makes the 'snap'. You can cover that fatty tissue with your other hand then snap and hear that it's muffled.
Your binary thinking is failing to get you a satisfactory answer. The sound is neither the thumb nor the finger, but rather the contact both make with the air particles around them, which subsequently reach your ears and are translated as "sound".
This video needed a lot more research. The Zen school of Buddhism doesn't seek to disregard reality in such a manner, it seeks to reset the brain so that you can see what is truly there the way that a baby would, but with the accumulated wisdom of a great sage. Additionally, the point of koans isn't really to learn anything from them so much as they're intended to be used to force the brain into a position where it gives up trying to attach to the things you've wrongly learned. When you get it, the brain releases and you have the chance to see things as they are, not as you think they are. This is why the koans seem to be so nonsensical, internally inconsistent and confusing. The point of them is to fill you're entire waking thoughts with them until a solution reveals itself.
The idea of Koans could be helpful for writers engaging in the art of world building, because - and this is often hard for me to overcome - sometimes what’s important is not to explain something about a fictional world, but to ask: Why do you need an answer or an explanation?
to an enlightened mind these stories are not ambiguous or confusing at all. i can see how they came up with these stories. its quite easy when you see that the world isn't really there at all. you job is to solve the puzzle of your own existence, once you do you can go to the next phase. im on my way there now, its quite spectacular.
"Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand?" Sound of one hand= snapping fingers Am I zen now? A secret of the universe: You find the answer that let's you sleep at night.
@@sunday4419 , the question was what is the sound of one hand, technically one hand can make three sound; snapping, rubbing and cracking with cracking having multiple variations of sound
@@answer5092 but doesn't being okay with the lack of answers make any different than animal? Animals just exist they don't question, they live relatively short complacent lives. I do see the appeal of that, but isn't accepting that life style like accepting defeat? Wouldn't the point of existence is to continue existing and not giving into entropy? Maybe I'm not wise enough to understand yet.
0:24 Exactly!! Why do we need an explanation to everything??!! (I know human tendency of curiosities etc etc but still I feel, people dont settle for "mysteries" that often. They need an answer to everything, when they need to understand that not everything has an answer! )
"I left the traveler there. Are you still carrying her?"
#ZenBurn
Apply fresh morning dew to the burnt area.
Shots fired.
IncenceDrop
The real question. Did it really burn you or you just let it burn you?
yes
I know the sound of one hand clapping. It's a slap.
I actually seen one hand clap.
Now the question is how do I do it.
The sound of one hand clapping is as loud as one foot running.
@@natefactor4336
That's true.
I should have put in shameless plug of me saying that I filmed it and posted on my UA-cam channel which people can go watch....but it's too late and that would be degrading myself.... totally above that.
I wrote the answer to this in a song years ago. One hand clapping makes no sound. The category mistake is to assume that there IS a sound! ;)
It's a snap
There're many short lessions in Buddhism. I like this one: "I want happiness, how get it?", "Just remove I and Want, there is Happiness".
Yes. It is beautiful. It suggests that happiness can be found when I no longer want or seek happiness at all. How could it be? And why do we feel somehow warm, comfortable and right hearing that? I like this one from the Bible: "Consider how the lilies grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these".
bubbism
@@peepeetrain8755 Sorry, it's Buddhism. My English... :)))
Well I is ego and want is attachment
Okay
...were intentionally incomprehensible. They were surprising, surreal, and frequently contradicted themselves."
UA-cam commentators in a nutshell.
YEW NEED JEEEZUS!
That better?
I will find enlightenment in this comment section.
Tardigrade.
Well how true nature of human is, and as people become so open and raw with their character in internet cause they only risk the idea they type.
@@squidcatcher9455 Enlightenment is the demand of understanding the comment section, not the reward for attempting
In western (American/BCA) Jodoshinshu Buddhism (which does not have monks nor does it typically employ koans or meditation) the flag story goes as follows: During meditation one monk broke the silence, observing aloud, "Flag is flapping". Another corrected, "Wind is flapping ". A third monk chimed in, "No, the mind is flapping". Finally, the head monk broke their attachnent to the debate, saying: "Mouths are flapping".
TheRealChubDaddy
This is essence of ( Sunyata ) the emptiness.
LOL
...Enlightened monk said nothing
"but we can never be fapping" one monk said
*Mooth is flapping*
Zen Koans: The original "It do be like that sometimes."
The way she goes Rick. The fuckin way she goes
The one at 3:07 is the heart of all koans and of religion itself. It symbolizes uniting the left and right hemispheres of the brain by grounding awareness in the absolute present, combining memory and intuition into one, calming the waves of binary thinking. That is how we build the pyramid of understanding that leads to enlightenment. So while the path is a 'pathless path' that isn't simple by any means, the means of staying on it is absolutely simple, the absolute simplicity of letting go of mental dialogue and emotional resistance to the present.
Clay Grantham
so many words
@@PedanticAntics Would you prefer a book on the subject? 😉
Clay Grantham
First monk: flag flapping
Second monk: wind flapping
Third monk: mind flapping
An old man walking by: their _lips_ flapping
So this is a collection of weapons to destroy AI when they'll try to conquer the world.
AI: We have already analyzed most videos in UA-cam and have formed defencive techniques against them. Soon human we will take over.
The one about the flag is probably where the spoon bender kid's speech in The Matrix comes from, right? So he's already used it to crash the machines XD
That was on Star Trek, I think. Can't remember the details, but the statement that won the day was "Everything I say is a lie."
Ai is statistical analysis, it cannot break it will just produce an output regardless of how wrong or right it is.
.... This is a very intelligent comment
"Unlike real court cases, koans were intentionally incomprehensible - they were surprising, surreal, and frequently contradicted themselves" oh dear, I may have some bad news for you about 'real' court cases.
Haha, made my day! 😂
Ha! True wisdom indeed.
Though "real" court cases are not intentionally made like that, are they?
The distinguishing word is "intentionally", yet again that reminds me of a joke.
A bad lawyer can make a two day case go on for months.
A good lawyer can make it go on for much longer.
0:16 straight up thought he had morning wood until I saw his other foot
FACTS
Lol
23:34 Was this what you were looking for?
Didn't even noticed that.
2:35 see this😂
Origin of shower thoughts
My thought: a shower of origins
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"I left the traveler there, are you still carrying her?"
What a profound insight, applicable to so many of life's troubles. We'we all been the outraged monk at some point, still being weighted down by the negative emotions of troubles past.
I do feel differents meaning of this koan, it's pretty damn cool to be honest.
Hello Magnus,
I read a couple of poems out at a zoom meeting last night to mixed/apathetic reactions. I carried some of those reactions through to this morning but now I'm leaving them behind. They just don't matter - it's all ego driven daftness on my part.
I like leaving the traveler behind and will certainly be doing it much more in the future.
Thank you for this
"Ugh, Colonel. I keep trying to solve this Koan, but my hands are dummy thicc, and the sound of one hand clapping keeps alerting the other monks."
Cursed
Nate then learn to hear with your eyes.
if you want to clap with one hand, the other hand is substituted by a face(slapping)
Late to the party, but I can clap with one hand.... not slapping anything but hitting my fingers onto the palm... looks quite funny
@@Sabrina_Tea your father is too powerful and must be stopped
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes"
Is that an absolute statement?
Shut up Obi-Wan.
All absolute statements are false by default
Ernest Lam By this logic, your own statement is therefore false.
@@ARandomCogboi That's kind of the point
12th century: Zen koans
21st century: Yanny or Laurel?
It's Laurel though, it was officially announced
12th century is more like Getting killed by a plague or die in war. The ideas of the zen koans didn't spread across the globe in 12th century. However, we immediatly learned the existence of this thinking thanks to the internet. Just like this thinking or other briliant notions, some popular but temporary things evantually come. I think we only see the negative effects of the globolization or popularity. On the other hand, with this brialliant tool, the internet, we can learn more than a proffesor knows in 12th century. We just have to accept this challenges and crate more notions that can change our life
More to point: watching idiots flap their hands at flies.
That dress though
what a massive downgrade.
“Says we shouldn’t try to explain the koans”
“Explains every single one”
This video is also a koan then
He explains the paradoxes, not an answer to the paradoxes. The purpose of these is to find a paradox.
"Says that Koans don't have a singular answer, and the point is to consider all the different possible meanings to broaden your understanding of the complexity of our world"
" tells you one possible interpretation and encourages you to consider more"
Zachary Goodman: "well that was simple, so I guess there is not need for me to think about it"
No more than trying to be kind/loving a true expression of either. You should not desire to try anything.
Jancristoff Ruiz he doesn't even explain the paradoxes. This whole video was put together by someone who has never met with an authentic teacher. Don't get too hung up on it.
Answering the "Why" will always add another "Why".
why?
Why why?
Why why why?
but the question is why
why the question is why
I need that 'I'm Okay' umbrella. Where can I get one?
can't get that. Earn it by start learning and practicing their philosophy, only if you still want the umbrella
At Ligma, it's a very fancy but affordable shop in NY.
Practice zen. Meditate. Let go of the umbrella. You don't need the umbrella. You don't need anything. Not even life. Live like a cloud. Believe that you are a cloud in flesh.
Can I believe that I am a cloud shaped like a penguin?
lol. That's warm hearted.
They're not meant to break your brain, they're meant to help us realize that our brains are broken.
Underrated...
Damn bruh... That's true
I prefer saying that humans are just not 100% synchronized with our environment.
There is no spoon.
@@usernamepasswordG nawww 😂😂 I felt this one it was deep #ifyouknowyouknow
I remember studying these a little in high school. One of my favorites:
A calligraphy master has a promising young student who aspires to be a master like him one day. The master assigns his student to master a certain character and show it to him once he's mastered it. The student returns the next day, carrying a piece of parchment with ten handsome characters. The master looks at the parchment and disregards it immediately. Puzzled, the student returns home.
The next day, the student returns with dozens of elegant copies of the same character. Once again, the master turns him away. The student is confused and becoming frustrated.
The student shows up the next day, exhausted, carrying a sheet of hundreds of stunningly beautiful identical characters. The master, still not impressed, turns away without a word.
Infuriated, the student quickly dashes the character onto a piece of parchment and shouts, "how about now?!"
The master turns around, looks him in the eye, and smiles. "It's perfect."
Trollosaurus I would have torn the paper up and eaten it.
yeah no Idon't get it
A that is incorrect, I'm sorry. There is no regard given to perfect or defiled. Neither is there acknowledgement of self or other.
Try again.
My answer: yes
MED_ Mitochondria think of it like this; if someone throws you a ball, do you go home for several days to plan the best way to catch it?
when your teacher asks a question and follows it with a ‘why?’
me: why do we need an explanation??
Oh man, you're so wise! XD
Frances Dela Cruz ...
Because schooling system design to kill creativity and trained to follow orders
*why tho*
Teacher: Because I need the bathroom
Belal DarkneSS That sounds pretty woke on the surface, but trust me, stay in school. The information, at some point, will be useful one way or the other.
I would like the entire Blue Cliff Records and Gateless Gate done in this style, please.
The thing about Koans is that they aren't just weird riddles, most of them have some nuanced but fairly straightforward point about ethics or ontology. The traveling monks one says, pretty unambiguously, that compassionate action takes precedence over monastic rules. The rules exist to help detach from desires, but attachment to the rules themselves misses the point of non-attachment in the first place. The monk 'leaving the traveler behind' also illustrates what it means to act in a way that is compassionate but detached, which is sort of the ethical paradox Buddhism seeks to navigate. Of course, that's all my interpretation, but interpretation is basically the point of Koans.
One of my favorites (paraphrased) is about a monk who's saving up to construct a statue of the Buddha or a new temple or something, but then there's a drought in his region, so he spends the money he's saved up to help feed the people. After the drought is over he begins saving up again, but then there's a flood, and he spends the money to repair the damages. Finally, the third time he's able to save up and have the statue built. Later, two monks are visiting the temple, and the younger one remarks to the older, "isn't this a magnificent representation of the Buddha?" The older monk thinks for a moment, then nods. "It's good, but the first two were better."
Thanks! Very insightful!
That last Koan is absolutely beautiful. It touches on man's true nature. Enlightenment comes from understanding the meaning of that last Koan. That is what will give you Moksha.
The Ren and Stimpy animation is on point.
Came here to say this. Thank you
Wow, I totally forgot about Ren and Stimpy! Thanks for giving me flashbacks!
It’s humbling to acknowledge that there are many mysteries in life that will likely never be solved and that humbling can be comforting. We’re part of much larger processes that are beyond the capability of our minds. It’s awe-inspiring...
Maybe you are not aware but the Gita essentially says the same thing!
Thats beautiful to know, embracing something bigger than ourselves :)
That's an extremely beautiful and elegant version of what I was saying a bit earlier. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Yeah I mean technically a mystery that can be solved is not a mystery, it’s a problem. In terms of a mystery, the only problem is our desire to solve it; because we’re obsessed with knowing, which is always only a fragmented part of the Whole.
My favorite book in college (a century ago) was “Zen Flesh, Zen Bones”. It’s a small gem.
I really want to read that
The beautiful stranger one was brilliant! The one monk, did the right thing and made peace with that decision, despite it being against the law. The other monk was still obsessing over the other one breaking the law, and thus continued to carry her which actually caused him to commit a greater crime then the first. That actually sums up lawful good and neutral good, pretty well. Neutral do is doing what's right, regardless of what the law says, and being ok with it. Lawful good is following the law as accurately as possible so long as the law itself is "good." Though, what one perceives as "good" changes per person.
Wouldn’t doing what is right regardless of law be chaotic good?
Doing good according to law is lawful good, doing good according to what is right is neutral good, doing good according to "yourself" is chaotic good, as whats good for you may be good or bad for other :) there is a bit of understanding in this sentences
Uzi I disagree strongly.
Lawful good is not good according to law, they are good... and they also follow established rules. Chaotic good is not good according to their own rules, they are good... but they actively break established rules.
What you described was lawful neutral, neutral good, and true neutral. Do you even know what you’re talking about? If you don’t play D&D, I don’t blame you, but you’ve got it wrong.
And I am correct. I literally have the book in front of me.
@@calvinjohnson6242 So, what's 'chaotic good' according to the book?
Vinay Seth Basically what I said. I’m not writing it all out.
'I left the traveler there. Are you still carrying her?'
Is solution to most of my problems i didn't even recognise then...
Yeah, now instead of monk law, imagine marriage law. A husband and a wife, the husband cheats, the wife confronts him about it and the husband's answer is: "I left her there. Are you still carrying her?" How very convenient.
@@littlesometin he might have left her but he carries the consequences, you can't leave the consequences cause his wife confronting his is itself a consequence of his action. That's what I like to think.
The largest burdens we carry are the ones in our minds.
The second story about the flag rippling is actually very similar to "If there's no one to hear a tree falls in a forest, does it make a sound?".
The first monk notice that the flag is flapping and the second monk inferred from the flag flapping that the wind is blowing. Hence, he argues that the wind is the "cause", without the wind the flag will not be flapping. (see cause & effect in Buddhism)
The third monk interjects that it is only because both their minds/hearts "noticed" & "cling" to the phenomenon, can they make such statements. Their perception/minds is the "cause" of the flag/wind being noticed. Ultimately, it's the one who perceives create the illusion of reality and the Buddhism doctrines aim to detach oneself from relying on perception to the physical and spiritual. These perceptions/minds are attachments that create what we perceive as "reality" and with these perceptions alone we can't see beyond this "perceived reality".
Some modern culture parallel would be "If the universe is a simulated reality, will you be able to tell?"
"How do you know if you're not living in the 'Matrix'?"
At least in quantum physics, events exist as a probability. The waveform collapse into one singular event if someone tries to observe it, hence the "perception creates certainty/reality".
Nice
Accurately defined the insight of this story
I hate descriptions like these "break the brain." Koans aren't designed to break anything; they're designed to free you FROM your brain, to "think like a rock," as in Japanese Zen Buddhism sword fighting when you stop thinking and exist solely in the present, reacting only to the immediate and flowing from one perfect present moment to the next.
you stink of zen now.
SIDDSTER Stick to your gaming videos, water's a little too deep on this end :)
michael malosky jr that' s why don't tread on it too :) subscribe to my channel :)
Take it this way: you are breaking the chains that enslave you to your mind :)
Flow state
This is taking "I dont remember asking" to a whole new level
@Michal Nazareth Maybe he's talking about 0:34
???
• First monk: "the flag flapping"
• Second monk: "the wind flapping"
• Third monk: "the mind flapping"
• The drunkard laying on the ground nearby: "their mouths flapping.."
Commedy gold XD
That...might unironically be very Buddhist of you, eh? They most certainly do not like overexplaining things.
vaspeter2600 it highlights the unfortunate and deeply ironic tendency of Buddhists to use Buddhism to strengthen their ego, rather than to subdue it. A battle I lose with startling regularity.
The key here is that in this iteration, there are 3 Buddhists philosophers and 1 enlightened guy.
@@PedanticAntics I'm fairly certain there are koans about that.
As for how Buddhists actually observe koans about observing koans, I cannot attest.
J Leonard I hollers. THE MIND FLAPPING 😂
Woah. Mind-blowing animation.
that reminds me of Ed Edd n Eddy cartoons
bharath kumar do u really only care about the animation?
Xx_infectedinjaz YT can't ignore it though.. bro
bharath kumar ik
Quinten Whyte ren & stimpy
*hits blunt*
"i left the traveler there, are you still carrying her?"
I took this to mean the monk was stewing in his mind about the situation and his own indignation the the other monk would break a religious law. The koan reminds me of the parable of the Good Samaritan or of the story of king David entering the Temple and giving the Show Bread to his soldiers to eat, a story which Jesus related when he and his disciples gathered stalks of wheat to eat on the Sabbath. The koan about the waving flag seems to be speaking about the mind and ego flapping, unable to see beyond it.
I completely forgot I even commented this and I have no idea what i was talking about
In other words, “I forgot about her.”
Function clapping not defined for argument of type single.
Try an analytic continuation of the function and find if it is self consistent
cast it as type double and try again
Oh, yeah, there's a library call for this function try biomechanics.hand.snap . it should work just fine
sound clap(hand left_hand, hand right_hand);
...was that supposed to be a sentence?
These are so strange it’s interesting
alexandra galici that’s only because you value what you specifically consider as “progress” in the first place (which may not be the same to others). Yes, their culture may have some flaws by your standards, but surely, to them, yours have too. In the end is a question of what you and your society value, and it’s subjective as it can get.
Don’t speak on something you don’t understand
alexandra galici i guess you are the monks in the video that arguing about moving flag and moving wind
alexandra galici
Dizang asked Xiushan, “Where do you come from?”
Xiushan said, “From the South.”
Dizang said, “How is Buddhism in the South these days?”
Xiushan said, “There is extensive discussion””
Dizang said, “How can that compare to me here planting the fields and making rice to eat?”
Xiushan said, “What can you do about the world?”
Dizang said, “What do you call the world?”
Dizang asked Xiushan, “Where do you come from?”
Xiushan said, “From the South.”
Dizang said, “How is Buddhism in the South these days?”
Xiushan said, “There is extensive discussion””
Dizang said, “How can that compare to me here planting the fields and making rice to eat?”
Xiushan said, “What can you do about the world?”
Dizang said, “What do you call the world?”
- Book of Serenity
alexandra galici real progress? what does that even mean? maybe if we had adopted buddhism and hinduism early on, we might have made a different and better progress. we don't really know.
Just b.c we are here right now doesn't mean we wouldn't be somewhere similar or better with other philosophies.
hats off to the animators behind this one. They put a lot of effort and talent into this video. It looks like they had fun making it.
"The more I know, the more I realize I don't know anything"
Completely true
Maybe Buddha realised that that..
Too bad more people don't realize this. It's ages old wisdom from the greeks, Chinese, Egyptians and has even been proven scientifically.
Till you know everything about nothing
I like how they always just end on a oneliner and then they continue walking
Edit:You Guys really made my day by liking this
MemeDog
Same 😂👌
Yes. The so called MOVING ON.
I heard Sans laugh after I read that
Okay now I want Papyrus and undyne to be the monks and Sans to be the old one
Or is it not the earth instead moving under their feet?
Those animations are melting my brain with the sheer amount of goodness! 😍
And amazing story-telling!
I like watching this over and over because you can get new meaning out of it each time.
A friend of mine can clap with one hand, by swinging it back and forth fast enough that it hits his wrist on each side.
I can do one side
@@-AdityarajPatil Same; One hand clapping is literally the same sound as a quiet clap.
Bird sounds are like whistles. Does that mean they are whistling? Or are they singing? Or talking? They may sound the same, but they are not the same.
The two hand clap may sound the same as a one hand clap, but does that mean they are the same thing?
A recording makes the same sound as a singer singing, but the recording isn't singing.
Perhaps what you are doing with one hand to make the same sound as a clap from two hands is not actually a clap, but something else.
"Never use the word never."
“I have freely chosen to embrace determinism”
"There is no truth."
“You should not judge”
“The scientific method is the only means of knowing truth”
“History is unknowable”
“Language cannot carry meaning”
“What's true for you isn’t true for me”
What is contradictory in "You should not judge"?
The statement is a judgment itself. You have to make a judgment in order to say "You should not judge."
I don't understand the fifth one
If “the scientific method is the only means of knowing truth” then you wouldn't be able to understand that statement itself, because it takes something other than the scientific method to understand it.
Can you explain them? Some are confusing
21st century koan- “Is water wet?” 🤔
Water is dry. Everything get in contact with water is wet.
@@id2028 if wet means enveloped in water then water is wet bcs atoms of h2o are surrounded by other atoms of h2o and if u have only 1 atom of h2o then it has to be in a gas state so its no longer water.
Water is always wet
Here’s another one
Why do we say there are three states of matter when day to day fire exists?
@@fantasyshadows3207 fire is a luminous gas
Dominik Tadic but what about a singular molecule** of H2O? is it not wet or is it not water?
*Frozone's wife understood this concept very clearly:*
Frozone: Where's my supersuit?!
Honey: *WHY* do you need to know?!
Stay woke.
IT’S FOR THE GREATER GOOD!
Why did I read that in her voice?
This is one the best Teds I’ve seen. The animation style and music makes it so captivating and almost calming despite the mind boggling subject.
3:46 - knowledge from senses
3:49 - knowledge from intellect
Here’s a kōan: Why is Gamora?
I'll do YOU one better! WHEN is Gamora?!
How is Gamora?
IW sucked balls
@Karan - Look out, we got a hipster over here!
_What_ is Gamora?
His voice sounds so satisfying, i feel like i could listen to it for a long time
"Ahead they see an attractive traveler"
2:14 *Nightmare fuel
"Ahead, they see nightmare fuel"
I like how there are deeper meanings to the monks commitment to their own answers.
"Do not try to bend the spoon, only try to realise the truth. There's no spoon" the matrix's Buddhist teachings
ahmed amir your daughter is hungry. She hasn't eaten all day and has a stomach ache.
Do you tell her "do not try and find food, only try and realize the truth; there is no pain?"
Michael Serebreny I have no daughter
The What!!? That's what you'll say when she's born, I'm afraid.
It teaches not to be attatched to things, it doesn't teach to avoid problems.
Cua Manh Động some people can't tell the difference.
2:40 is the line I come back to. Letter and spirit of the law indeed
"I let the traveler there. Are you still carrying her?"
*HOLY S**T YOU F***ING KILLED HER DUDE*
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N I Jon Tron meme reference
@@RLomoterenge no idea what that is, but ty
N I Jon Tron is a commedian. A “meme” is a running joke on the internet.
@@RLomoterenge 👍
I was introduced to this concept in university by an english professor, who pointed out that the famous Robert Frost poem about the two roads is a bit of a koan. Once one chooses a path, one cannot know how the others would truly go (unless one actually went down them), meaning the author is arguably lying that his choice made 'all the difference', since we don't truly know the outcomes of our choices, even if we think we do, in part because every choice has larger ramifications that aren't easy to predict.
For example, what if you made a 'better' choice, but luck wasn't in your favour, and things go poorly? Was it the right choice? Technically it wasn't, but arguably it was... though in life, you'd probably prefer to have made the better choice over the 'technically correct' choice!
Monk: "What is the sound of one hand clapping?"
Me: **rapidly slaps all my fingers against that palm over and over like a buffoon**
Monk: **Disappointed head shaking**
Am I the only one who want that ancient VR ?
“Is it A or B?”
“Both. Both is good.”
can we just take some time to applaud for the animation TED-ED brought to this video! its crazy good
Thanks you Ted-Ed for always making such amazing videos on interesting topics with such good animation! It makes learning so much more interesting and fun! Could you please make a video on borderline personality disorder?
Weird fact, despite this being a mentioned as a Chinese practice, kōan (こうあん) is the Japanese reading for the word. The Chinese reading is still gong’an (and written as 公案 in both languages).
Wouldn’t be surprised if these practices existed in both cultures though as both countries are Buddhist countries and had a lot to do with each other throughout history.
No one NEEDS answers to the universe, but seeking truth is more for the journey than the end, that's the point, you can never find the truth so you have an infinite purpose, always discovering something new, each new discovery leading to new technologies and understandings that help with increasing the longevity and enjoyability of life, while also leading to new questions allowing for us to continue our journey without ever having to worry about running out of things to do. And if somehow one day we did find the truth of it all, we would know enough to do anything, anytime, anywhere and let our infinitely generating imaginations create whatever we wanted to create.
facts
Poetry are words used to express the inexpressible...yet, understanding can be transmitted...not unlike koans and symphonies 💞
Yeah even though the monk with the "traveler" said what he said that doesn't suddenly absolve him of what he did and just deflected it. It is true that the other monk may have been holding on to that but it is not explained whether or not holding grudges/questioning/judging others isn't okay for them to do.
In the second one it doesn't even matter. If there were a flag there then it was the flag moving, plain and simple. You cannot see wind moving. You can understand that wind MOVES flags but not actually see it in place of a flag. The third monks answer there is also just an aside where he comments that they're essentially "thinking" but that still doesn't change the subject at hand: the flag pole/flag.
I'd like to hear more, hopefully they're actually more "paradoxical" than these.
See, willing to assume we both live in a "western society", these koans are really beyond us, since we live in a post-enlightenment world. We can't grab hold of their entire meaning.
This feels like one of the animators here is a veteran if the old Ren and Stimpy show. I kept expecting a Log commercial or a a weirdly drawn random shot of a close-up booger.
"unsolvable enigmas designed to break your brain"
Me: Isn't that all of Ted-Ed riddle?
:o
This is quite the interesting topic. One of the many reasons I love Ted - Ed.
I'm 🖤triggered... what a Steaming pho bowl 🍜 of 💩 this comment is.
That better be heteronomormative Love!
🐑Ewe people are too easy to hate as a foe, flinging faux broadly amorphous terms. Please enlighten us by checking the box 📦 below exactly what your implication(s) is/arrgh 🏴☠ when your fingetips caress the keyboard to write 'love'.
☐ Eros
☐ Philia
☐ Ludus
☐ Agape
☐ Pragma
☐ Philautia
Buddhist proverbs and teachings always amaze me, I still remember the riddle played by three well-known monks: Chinlu, Chinawa and Chingas, about living and loving life no matter what the circumstances may be.
"For these monks, blinding seeking answers was a vice to overcome, and learning to accept the mysteries of existence was the true path to enlightenment." Modern science would not have been possible for another 10,000 years with that attitude! And as cute as these riddles are, science has enlightened us much, much more.
Science makes us Knowledgeable, it does not necessarily make us Wise. Zen teaches wisdom.
When I love animations it draws me in like this video did. There animators followed a rule I found in “Ren & Stempy”. Another animation series I love, including their banded episodes. 🥰
I love this kind of thinking, it's very easeful to my head.
- It's not because you have 100 problems that makes your life difficult, it's because you have a problem with your 100 problems and making them 101 instead -
2:35 I have to give second thought there
The first video I have ever watched on 2019. As such, happy new year to whoever would read this!
this art style brings me joy
The three monks story sounds oddly like Quantum mechanics 😂😂😂
How so?
Somewhat yes, QM is a concept since forever. It's just a name. Who's to say it wasn't partially discovered and designated differently many times in the past.
Interesting.
Peter Liu 1223 mind only. But don't get hung up on it. That's just here.
Tell me more please
Oh my, the 3rd monk... he's in another parallel universe with the two other monks. The drawing, I mean... 3:32
He's adorable though :3
Alan Watts did a very good job at explaining the unexplainable
This was really interesting !
Would love to see more Buddhism themes :)
Yes!
Isn't obtaining the answers the reason why we watch your videos?
Adam Latosiński Good point. However, if we'd think we know everything, we wouldn't come looking. So there's merit to being open to not knowing. Which writer said we are floating on an ocean of knowledge/information? The more you come to know, the more you realize how little you know. And then of course, there are the fundamental questions of the how and why of existence.
The reason why I watch Ted-Ed's videos is to know that I know nothing.
It isn't to obtain the answers, but rather to explore the questions
Harsha Malavalli that's only half of it. What if the question is; "what do I do when you say you're in pain?"
Is my task only exploration?
Interesting and worthwhile beginning video on koans.
0:17 that left leg looks a little funny
Wise man once said, "If you know too much, than you're not going to know enough."
Riff Raff
The real koan, is how someone so distant from koan practice has invested this much effort and also gained such popularity on you tube. Sheez!
If every mystery was solved, and every question throughout time and history was finally given an answer, there would only be one that shall ever remain...
"Now what?"
It is my personal belief that this is attainable and desirable.
Although the question "Now what?" have no definitive answer. That is the answer is "whatever you want".
@@AleksoLaĈevalo999 im not here to say you're wrong, but we didnt even know why living beings live, why are they alive.
And also, the beginning of the universe
@@dudep504 First of all, "living" is not a state of matter but just a concept created by us to easily describe complex configurations of matter which interact with each other to produce copies of themselves which are not made by humans.
And we cannot know at the moment if the beginning of the universe is unknowable if there even is a beginning in the traditional sense.
Monks: Aim for no attachment
Also monks: Want enlightenment
Isn't seeking enlightenment also an attachment?
Welcome to the age long paradox of Buddhism
How do you not desire to stop desiring
@@bard5865 Not a real paradox, since many Buddhists recognise that wanting enlightenment is also a want.
@@mobychoc By living in the moment and accepting life as it is. Buddhists don't just desire to stop desiring. They accept desires with friendly compassion.
And then the desires go, as is the natural flow of life.
@@CountingStars333 would you say we learn to live above our demons or undesirable desires?
TED-Ed videos are so soothing that I am binging them.
12th Century: Koans
21st Century: Memes
The answer to the quote at the beginning of the video is snapping your fingers
Which finger makes the noise then?
TheCookieCrusader
The human finger...
TheCookieCrusader the one that isnt the thumb (some people use the index and others the middle). When you snap its that finger striking the fatty tissue at the base of the thumb that makes the 'snap'. You can cover that fatty tissue with your other hand then snap and hear that it's muffled.
Andii Neushul it's still neither. The middle finger caused the strike and the thumb reciprocated it.
Your binary thinking is failing to get you a satisfactory answer. The sound is neither the thumb nor the finger, but rather the contact both make with the air particles around them, which subsequently reach your ears and are translated as "sound".
This video needed a lot more research. The Zen school of Buddhism doesn't seek to disregard reality in such a manner, it seeks to reset the brain so that you can see what is truly there the way that a baby would, but with the accumulated wisdom of a great sage.
Additionally, the point of koans isn't really to learn anything from them so much as they're intended to be used to force the brain into a position where it gives up trying to attach to the things you've wrongly learned. When you get it, the brain releases and you have the chance to see things as they are, not as you think they are. This is why the koans seem to be so nonsensical, internally inconsistent and confusing. The point of them is to fill you're entire waking thoughts with them until a solution reveals itself.
Why go through all that trouble?, You can just go into the settings menu and reset it there
Love they include Tao's ying yang symbol into Buddhist video.
Taoism + Buddhism = Zen Buddhism (read the way of Zen by Alan Watts)
Zen is deeply influenced by Taoism so yeah, it makes sense
"The koans were simpler than the explanation of what they were.."koan by Monk Farhan.
I can't express how much I love the art style and expressions
The idea of Koans could be helpful for writers engaging in the art of world building, because - and this is often hard for me to overcome - sometimes what’s important is not to explain something about a fictional world, but to ask: Why do you need an answer or an explanation?
Did anyone see the guy morning wood? At 0:17
That's his right foot. You can see another bump off to the side where his left foot is.
He has two boners then,obviously
LOL ... Now that might have a market ... X-rated Koans ;-)
lmao got em
The most interesting thing about his Bonners is, how far apart they are.
He has an evolutionary advantage.
This was short yet so profound.
“Two hands make a clap,
One hand makes a...” snap?
Joseph Manning one hand makes a whoosh if you move it really fast
I too practice apathy through absurd anecdotes. The only difference is that mine come from r/DankMemes.
step 1: waste all your time on memes
step 2: ???
step 3: achieve enlightenment
to an enlightened mind these stories are not ambiguous or confusing at all. i can see how they came up with these stories. its quite easy when you see that the world isn't really there at all. you job is to solve the puzzle of your own existence, once you do you can go to the next phase. im on my way there now, its quite spectacular.
"Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand?"
Sound of one hand= snapping fingers
Am I zen now?
A secret of the universe:
You find the answer that let's you sleep at night.
@@sunday4419 , the question was what is the sound of one hand, technically one hand can make three sound; snapping, rubbing and cracking with cracking having multiple variations of sound
@@answer5092 but doesn't being okay with the lack of answers make any different than animal? Animals just exist they don't question, they live relatively short complacent lives. I do see the appeal of that, but isn't accepting that life style like accepting defeat?
Wouldn't the point of existence is to continue existing and not giving into entropy?
Maybe I'm not wise enough to understand yet.
But technically that's the sound of fingers...not a hand...but I get what you mean
@@answer5092 yeah I suppose you're right. I'm going to try to contact a zen Buddhist, would you like me to ask them anything in particular?
Both hands are mostly silent or quiet. It is the air making most of the clap, as far as I know.
"The pear that was a hen dreams of a rooster"
0:24 Exactly!! Why do we need an explanation to everything??!!
(I know human tendency of curiosities etc etc but still I feel, people dont settle for "mysteries" that often. They need an answer to everything, when they need to understand that not everything has an answer! )
If you're happy without an explanation to everything, you didn't need to ask that question.
“How do they get the caramel in snickers bars?”
Haydes 100 bars at a time