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Originally Posted by Kioma
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That is a very nice story and thanks for sharing it (or the location thereof anyway).
If only people could just nod, smile and return to their 'caves' to meditate...but there's a difference between external/environmental events (or the perception of them) which leads to a belief or an opinion which they will die to defend, and those perceptions of the
same stimuli which will result in the direct realisation and experience of their own inherent divinity, totally irrespective of what is occurring externally...and
this is why, all of the enlightened masters and teachers have described the world, described all our experiences except for the ultimate, conclusive one as being Maya (illusion) or Mithya (false perception):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
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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.
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right
And all were in the wrong!
O how they cling and wrangle, some who claim
For preacher and monk the honored name!
For, quarreling, each to his view they cling.
Such folk see only one side of a thing.
So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!
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