By Charlie Gilkey
There’s an old Hindu story about some blind wise men each want to experience what an elephant is.
The man who feels the elephant’s tail thinks the elephant is like a rope.
The man who feels the elephant’s trunk thinks it’s like a snake.
The man who feels the elephant’s leg thinks it’s like a tree.
The man who feels the elephant’s flank thinks it’s like a wall.
The man who feels the elephant’s tusk thinks it’s like a spear.
I can only imagine what the man who ended up with the rear-end thought it was like.
From each of their perspectives, they were right. But none of them understood what an elephant was.
Much of our suffering comes by clinging to our own perception of the... More...
