Six Blind Elephants
One day someone took an elephant to the village.
Six blind elephants. The parable of the blind men and an elephant originated in the ancient indian subcontinent from where it has been widely diffused it is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and conceptualize what the elephant is like by touching it. Once upon a time there were six wise men who lived in a small village. In turn each blind man creates his own version of reality from that limited experience and perspective.
The tale of the six blind sages and the elephant. The first man argued that the elephant felt like a large pillar as he touched the elephants leg. All six of them were blind.
Each blind man feels a different part of the elephant s body but only one part such as the side or the tusk. A guiding influence in the field of nlp he is the author of transforming negative self talk six blind elephants and transforming your self. Blind men and the elephant a picture of relativism and tolerance the blind men and the elephant is a famous indian fable that tells the story of six blind sojourners that come across different parts of an elephant in their life journeys.
Faced with such a situation the six men looked for ways to know what an elephant was like since they couldn t see it. Having never seen an elephant before each of the six men placed their palms upon the elephant to help them experience what was in front of them. It finally explains the structure of generalizations in a more explicit manner than richard bandler ever did and before this set of books i would have considered him the expert on the subject matter.
