The Six Blind Men and the Elephant
The fable of the Six Blind Men and the Elephant is an ancient story, which has surfaced in different cultures.
In some versions a King (in others Buddha) calls six blind men together to describe something he brings before them. Each grabs a different part, feels that part and then starts bickering with the others about the nature of the thing. Each assumes there is only one perspective (their own) and that the reason why others do not share the same perspective is their ineptness.
Before long the King interrupts the bickering to reveal that in fact they were all a bit right. If they weren’t so narrow minded, they might have put their information together and realized that in fact they were each feeling different parts of the same animal: an elephant.
In some versions a King (in others Buddha) calls six blind men together to describe something he brings before them. Each grabs a different part, feels that part and then starts bickering with the others about the nature of the thing. Each assumes there is only one perspective (their own) and that the reason why others do not share the same perspective is their ineptness.
Before long the King interrupts the bickering to reveal that in fact they were all a bit right. If they weren’t so narrow minded, they might have put their information together and realized that in fact they were each feeling different parts of the same animal: an elephant.
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