A number of disciples went to the Buddha and said, “Sir, there are living here in Savatthi many wandering hermits and scholars who indulge in constant dispute, some saying that the world is infinite and eternal and others that it is finite and not eternal, some saying that the soul dies with the body and others that it lives on forever, and so forth. What, Sir, would you say concerning them?”
The Buddha answered, “Once upon a time there was a certain raja who called to his servant and said, ‘Come, good fellow, go and gather together in one place all the men of Savatthi who were born blind… and show them an elephant.’ ‘Very good, sire,’ replied the servant, and he did as he was told. He said to the blind men assembled there, ‘Here is an elephant,’ and to one man he presented the head of the elephant, to another its ears, to another a tusk, to another the trunk, the foot, back, tail, and tuft of the tail, saying to each one that what they touched was the elephant.
“When the blind men had felt the elephant, the raja went to each of them and said to each, ‘Well, blind man, have you seen the elephant? Tell me, what sort of thing is an elephant?’
“Thereupon the men who were presented with the head answered, ‘Sire, an elephant is like a pot.’ And the men who had observed the ear replied, ‘An elephant is like a winnowing basket.’ Those who had been presented with a tusk said it was a plowshare. Those who knew only the trunk said it was a plow; others said the body was a granary; the foot, a pillar; the back, a mortar; the tail, a pestle, the tuft of the tail, a brush.
“Then they began to quarrel, shouting, ‘Yes it is!’ ‘No, it is not!’ ‘An elephant is not that!’ ‘Yes, it’s like that!’ and so on, till they came to blows over the matter.
“Brethren, the raja was delighted with the scene.
“Just so are these preachers and scholars holding various views blind and unseeing…. In their ignorance, they are by nature quarrelsome, wrangling, and disputatious, each maintaining reality is thus and thus.”
Then the Exalted One rendered this meaning by uttering this verse of uplift,
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.
Is there a point of view that’s superior to all others?
Are all descriptions of reality deficient in some way?
The Buddha wisely chose not to explore these topics as he considered them a distraction from his teachings on the relief of suffering. The True Nature of reality — if such a thing could ever be perceived and understood — is not consequential to the pursuit of relieving suffering. While the Buddha taught that people must see things the way they truly exist, he recognized that debating the subtle points of the nature of reality was not productive in the pursuit of alleviating suffering. The Truth Buddha wanted people to see was related to their own delusions, not to some unknowable objective reality.
One afternoon, some people saw an old woman looking for something outside of her hut.
What are you looking for?” the people would ask her.
All of the people present started to look for the needle with the old woman.After some time, someone commented: “The Street is very long and a needle is very small, why don’t you tell us exactly where you dropped it?” “Inside of my house,” said the old woman.“Have you gone mad?
If you dropped the needle inside of your house, why are you looking for it out here?” the people asked her.
“Because there’s sunlight out here, but there’s none inside my house,” she said matter of fact.This Buddhist tale reminds us that many times, out of convenience, we seek for things on the outside that are actually found on the inside.
Why do we seek happiness outside of ourselves?
The term “coronavirus” means a cluster of RNA viruses that causes a chain of diseases in animals as well as humans.The symptoms are as equal as the common flu, cough, and fever.
In extreme cases, this virus attacks the respiratory system which makes it deadly due to the acute breathing issues.
Mostly the elderly people and the children are on the edge as they are easy prey for this virus.
The immune system of both is a comparatively weak and easy host.
Patients are quarantined or isolated until the time they are free from the virus.Symptoms and causes of COVID-19People infected with the virus are most likely to develop flu-like symptoms such as cough, fever, shortness of breath, and fatigue.
The emergency symptoms in patients include breathing difficulty, persistent chest pain, bluish face or lips, confusion, and walking difficulty.
These four words have hijacked our TV screens since December 2019.
And by the looks of things, the situation isn’t going to be any different for at least another few weeks.
The damage inflicted by Coronavirus is still under assessment.
This alarming situation demands that masses must have basic knowledge of this deadly epidemic and the causative agent behind this.This article is one such effort in this regard.
Hopefully, after reading this discussion, you will be better prepared than ever to fight the Coronavirus!What is Coronavirus?The etymology of Coronavirus is interesting.
The spikes found on the surface of this virus are similar to a crown, hence the name Coronavirus.Now, Coronavirus is not a new adversary of the human population.
With the rapid spread of the coronavirus across the globe, people have taken to their homes as per the advice of the World Health Organisation.
In a world full of generations that have never known what a pandemic is like, or how to live through one, these circumstances are indeed very unique to us all.
Anxiety levels across the world have shot up for a number of reasons.
Moreover, people without jobs or people who have recently left old jobs may feel increasingly stressed about their employment status.
Symptoms of anxiety during this time may show up in a number of ways.
Apart from a feeling of fear, panic, and worry, symptoms include changes in sleep patterns and appetite, substance abuse, difficulty concentrating, headaches, sweating, etc.
At this time, if the entire world is worried about something, it is the novel coronavirus (nCoV) or also known as the Wuhan coronavirus.
Not to mention that this outbreak has already created much fuss across the world including India.
Coronavirus which is caused by SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in Wuhan, Hubei, China in December 2019.
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