This sense of fragmented understanding brings to mind the Buddhist Tittha Sutta and its parable of the six blind men and an elephant. Having never encountered such a creature, each man sought to comprehend it by touch. The first, feeling its flank, declared it a wall. The second, grasping a tusk, insisted it was a spear. The third, holding the... See more

This sense of fragmented understanding brings to mind the Buddhist Tittha Sutta and its parable of the six blind men and an elephant. Having never encountered such a creature, each man sought to comprehend it by touch. The first, feeling its flank, declared it a wall. The second, grasping a tusk, insisted it was a spear. The third, holding the... See more