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What’s Not the Elephant?

My favorite Buddhist parable is the Blind Men And The Elephant. Several blind men each touch a different part of an elephant and proceed to describe and debate what they think an elephant is. The lesson here is how untrustworthy perception actually is. With only five main senses, we are all blind in the final […]

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Aug 13, 2012 by Carl Abbott
Filed Under: Observations Tagged With: belief, knowing, Nothing, thinking

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