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The Blind Men and the Elephant

“Buddhism has always been fond of parables and many of these were used by the Buddha himself. He taught by parables, ‘for men of good understanding will readily enough catch the meaning of what is taught under the shape of a parable.'”  Let us read these simple and yet moving stories with the eyes of a child and the mind of a beginner– for they are the pointing fingers to the gateway of spirituality.
A number of disciples went to the Buddha and said, “Sir, there are living here in Savatthi many wandering hermits and scholars who indulge in constant dispute, some saying that the world is infinite and eternal and others that it is finite and not eternal, some saying that the soul dies with the body and others that it lives on forever, and so forth. What, Sir, would you say concerning them?”
The Buddha answered...
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