All sound results from one force acting upon another. A drum stick strikes a cymbal; air crashes into air. But only one thing can create sound when there is nothing else in existence. That's the first cause, the unmoved mover.
Which is to say that the "sound of one hand clapping" is the state of perfect contemplation that corresponds to the metaphorical construct "God," which is consciousness contemplating its own contemplation, or presence. The "sound of one hand clapping" can be heard only in that place before thought arises, before time arises, the source of all creation.
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