Throw away your handful of sugar, so that you may become the sugar field. ~Rumi
Posts Tagged ‘Blind Men and the Elephant’
Abandon this world, so that you may become king of all worlds.
Thursday, April 1st, 2010“Why do you stay in prison…
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
…when the door is so wide open?
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.” ~Rumi
Sufi Legend put to poetry: The Blind Men and the Elephant
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
John Godfrey Saxe’s ( 1816-1887) version of the famous Indian legend
It was six men of Indostan,
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
The First approach’d the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
“God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!”
The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, -”Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me ’tis mighty clear,
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!”
The Third approach’d the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
“I see,” -quoth he- “the Elephant
Is very like a snake!”
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