This is precisely why I left the catholic church. You Christians always putting your own spin on things. "Let's take a Buddhist parable and pick it apart so it seems stupid and we are the 'RIGHT' ones" Big Deal, you can sit there and pick apart any religion to the point that it looses all its meaning. And who is really benefiting from that? This story is saying NOBODY has ANY BETTER Idea about life, reality, and Death, than you yourself. We are all mortals, none has perception greater than other
The parable is exactly about the possibility of a clearer, broader view of "reality". The king/raja represents a sage, a rishi. All religions assume that some people has a clearer vision of the reality (they can be called rishis, saints, etc). If you believe that the elephant is a "basket" is like to believe that when we die we simply go to the grave. It's correct in part, but only in part. Too bad that the narrateur couldn't pick that up.
The author misses the point of the parable. It is not a parable about ultimate truth and who has it, in fact, that is the point the parable tries to make is that there are multiple "truths" and points of view and we need each other to make a complete, if imperfect whole.
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Well, "Raja" means a king. "Guru" means a teacher. Very different aspects of the society really. Please do not misinform when u don't know the actual words.
@kcdad2806 Then why do you say the raja says they are all right and yet limited in their vision if He is NO ONE??
The raja sees better according to the parable becaue he knows its an elephant! The rest do not know that!!! so yes, that is better. sir, with all respect, its not chrsitians who are self centered hypocrites...truth corrseponds to reality, its not self centered or intolerant.
You actually have mistaken the point of the Buddhist version.
It is not about "the Raja" knowing the truth, it is about being so attached to one's views that it leads to people being "quarrelsome, disputatious, and wrangling, wounding each other with verbal darts."
The king is not depicted as some noble teacher: "they fought each other with their fists. And the king was delighted (with the spectacle)."
There will always be differing views, it is a question of how we behave even if we disagree
There is no Raja in science. DNA structure is a nice example. Chargaff's rule, X-ray image, chemical linkage and (later) supercoiling data) all point to a single model that we now accept as the beautiful double helix.
This is precisely why I left the catholic church. You Christians always putting your own spin on things. "Let's take a Buddhist parable and pick it apart so it seems stupid and we are the 'RIGHT' ones" Big Deal, you can sit there and pick apart any religion to the point that it looses all its meaning. And who is really benefiting from that? This story is saying NOBODY has ANY BETTER Idea about life, reality, and Death, than you yourself. We are all mortals, none has perception greater than other
Khalsabychoice 3 weeks ago
The parable is exactly about the possibility of a clearer, broader view of "reality". The king/raja represents a sage, a rishi. All religions assume that some people has a clearer vision of the reality (they can be called rishis, saints, etc). If you believe that the elephant is a "basket" is like to believe that when we die we simply go to the grave. It's correct in part, but only in part. Too bad that the narrateur couldn't pick that up.
Pukutusi 1 month ago
The only way this parable works is if the story teller sees the elephant... This is parable is flawed.
gilbert4321 3 months ago
The author misses the point of the parable. It is not a parable about ultimate truth and who has it, in fact, that is the point the parable tries to make is that there are multiple "truths" and points of view and we need each other to make a complete, if imperfect whole.
jeeninow 3 months ago 2
That's sad, one of the blind men is also deaf.
pompousprick 8 months ago
is there a way that i can upload your video on a website? How could i get the rights for that? it is a community of techer students for learning English as a second language
jefthe7 9 months ago
@jefthe7 Find a better video.
Khalsabychoice 3 weeks ago
is there a way that i can upload your video on a website? How could i get the rights for that?
jefthe7 9 months ago
Well, "Raja" means a king. "Guru" means a teacher. Very different aspects of the society really. Please do not misinform when u don't know the actual words.
adityabose26 1 year ago
The raja is NO ONE. There is no "right way" to view the elephant. No one can see all aspects of the elephant at one time.
No one suggests the raja sees "better". The raja says they are all right and yet limited in their vision. He doesn't say he sees everything.
Let us pray:
God, do you hate us? Why do allow these Christians... why have you inflicted the world with such closed minded self centered hypocrites?
kcdad2806 1 year ago
@kcdad2806 Then why do you say the raja says they are all right and yet limited in their vision if He is NO ONE??
trencherpin 4 months ago
@kcdad2806 Then why do you say the raja says they are all right and yet limited in their vision if He is NO ONE??
The raja sees better according to the parable becaue he knows its an elephant! The rest do not know that!!! so yes, that is better. sir, with all respect, its not chrsitians who are self centered hypocrites...truth corrseponds to reality, its not self centered or intolerant.
trencherpin 4 months ago
@kcdad2806 Amen Brother! Amen!
Khalsabychoice 3 weeks ago
But as the wise master Vox Day says "Just be sure you are not the blind man with his head stuck up the Elephants rectum." ; )
grandconjunct 2 years ago 3
You actually have mistaken the point of the Buddhist version.
It is not about "the Raja" knowing the truth, it is about being so attached to one's views that it leads to people being "quarrelsome, disputatious, and wrangling, wounding each other with verbal darts."
The king is not depicted as some noble teacher: "they fought each other with their fists. And the king was delighted (with the spectacle)."
There will always be differing views, it is a question of how we behave even if we disagree
comradecanuck 2 years ago 2
There is no Raja in science. DNA structure is a nice example. Chargaff's rule, X-ray image, chemical linkage and (later) supercoiling data) all point to a single model that we now accept as the beautiful double helix.
farvision 3 years ago
@farvision However that double helix was 1st seen in an LSD trip, so maybe entheogens reveal what is blind to us...
Leonicdragon 1 year ago 2
@Leonicdragon Really? What's your source for that? I doubt it is in Watson's book, I would have sat up at the moment I read that!
farvision 1 year ago
@farvision Actually it was Francis Crick, and it was in his autobiography.
Leonicdragon 1 year ago
@farvision that would make LSD the Raja or the tool to see the Raja
Leonicdragon 1 year ago