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Blind men and the elephant, 1907 American illustration. Blind Men Appraising an Elephant by Ohara Donshu, Edo Period (early 19th century), Brooklyn Museum. The parable of the blind men and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like by touching it.
The blind men and an elephant is a fable that originated in the Indian subcontinent from where it has widely diffused. It is a story of a group of blind men (or men in the dark) who touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one feels a different part, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk.
They then consulted The Buddha who taught them the parable of the blind men and the elephant: [5] A king has taken an elephant to his palace and asks the city's blind men to examine it. When the men felt each part of the elephant, the king asked them, each one, to describe what an elephant is.
Seven Blind Mice is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Ed Young.Based on the Indian fable of the blind men and an elephant, the book tells the story of seven mice who, each day, explore and describe a different part of the elephant.
In Spike Magazine, Edmund Hardy writes: "Hofmann’s prose is so concentrated and unrelenting that claustrophobia turns to terrible awareness . . .[the] novel is a joke on metaphor—which, classically, bridges the inward mental activity to the world of appearances, left in this novel as a swing bridge hanging over the water—making the parable, 'in this light', a parable of the parables."
I have never read of an attempt to relate the parable of the blind men and the elephant to the expression “seeing the elephant”. Both seem to have ancient roots and pertain to the acquisition of broader knowledge from a position of limited subjective experience. 65.128.179.126 15:55, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
Richard Espinoza’s son invited 10 friends, all of them seniors with big — elephantine, you might say — appetites and day-to-day needs.
The parable of the arrow (or 'Parable of the poisoned arrow') is a Buddhist parable that illustrates the skeptic and pragmatic themes of the Cūḷamālukya Sutta (The Shorter Instructions to Mālukya) which is part of the middle length discourses (Majjhima Nikaya), one of the five sections of the Sutta Pitaka.