A bunch of smarty-pantses like Corv, Drac and me, were discussing deeply philosophical matters using really huge words. You know... the kind no one else outside of the argument wants to read on the boards. The philosophers get pretty heated up though and Buddha gets called in. I like Buddha a great deal. Wouldn't you know, he is a storyteller! I guess those great master types call the tales parables though. So Buddha listens to the problem and decides it is story time or parable power hour.
Buddha tells about how once there was this king who had some pretty odd ideas about entertainment. I am not sure how far that goes, but it was apparently well before the days of television and YouTube. This day's entertainment involves bringing in an elephant and assembling local blind men to tell him what this thing is. The king proclaimed more than stated the question, "What is this?" Each blind man went about the task depending upon where they were relative to the elephant.
The first man declared the elephant a parking meter and began to immediately feed it peanuts. Parking was peanuts in those days. Considering what you were actually parking, peanuts would probably give you a few minutes to run into the store for a blue Slurpie. (Blue is for the throat chakra the center of knowledge.) The second man felt the elephants leg and declared the beast an all terrain vehicle. The man on the other side feeling a different leg and neck said that it was obviously a sturdy gardening tool for pulling up those large weed-like trees. The last man was standing in a less fortunate spot, downwind from the beast, and felt the tail. He decided that this really large thing was obviously a garden enhancement tool, producing materials that can be aged and added to the garden. This way a gardener can grow healthier plants with higher yields. He also decided that he ought not pull on the little rope again.
Of course the King and everyone in the gallery were looking on from their own points of view, believing they know exactly what the men were examining. But the elephant changed all that when he suddenly dropped to a lotus position, put his hands in meditation posture and said, "Who am I?"
Maybe it was a white elephant. 
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