Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.

This is episode number 104.

I am your host, Noah Rasheda, and today I'm talking about our limited view.

Keep in mind you don't need to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist.

You can use this stuff to learn to be a better whatever you already are.

This week I've been thinking a lot about the concept of a limited view in regards to

the questions that we ask.

So one of my favorite stories in Buddhist teachings is the story of the five blind men or

six blind men.

I can't remember now, but the blind men explaining or describing an elephant to each other.

And I've talked about this before in the podcast, so I don't think I need to go into detail

about the specific details of the story, but the gist of it is imagine five blind people

describing an elephant to each other or to everyone else.

The moral of that story is that we all have a limited view, a limited understanding,

and the one who may be describing one thing accurately is totally missing this other part

because the complete picture is an impossibility.

And so it is with life and with reality.

And I recently came across this notion again, just in the world that I reside in, in the

paragliding world, we fly different types of paraglider wings.

And there are probably a dozen or more major brands, manufacturers who make these wings

and then inside of each of those brands, you have some of them five to ten different

wing models and styles for flying.

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