Indian Analogy for tolerance – Four blind men discover an elephant
Jeff Sensei did write us an eMail and mentioned this old indian analogy. We like it because it got a lot to do with Aikido and tolerance:
“There are four blind men who discover an elephant. Since the men have never encountered an elephant, they grope about, seeking to understand and describe this new phenomenon. One grasps the trunk and concludes it is a snake. Another explores one of the elephant’s legs and describes it as a tree. A third finds the elephant’s tail and announces that it is a rope. And the fourth blind man, after discovering the elephant’s side, concludes that it is, after all, a wall.
Each in his blindness is describing the same thing: an elephant. Yet each describes the same thing in a radically different way.
if only we could all truly see…”
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