The last mouse is the one to finally put it all together. It’s a brilliant use of color in my mind. We see the mouse on a part of the elephant, but we only see this brownish shape that they touch and then we see what they think it is like a snake or a cliff in the color of that mouse. Each mouse is a different color and the background is total black and the tails of the mice each stand out. Seeing the whole picture is the key to helping a person heal.
I love the moral stated so beautifully in this book: “ Knowing in part may make a fine tale, but wisdom comes from seeing the whole.” Acupuncture is a wholistic medicine and so we spoke of this idea and parable often in our program with the 4 mice.
They each feel a part of an Elephant, but they are blind you see so they each get different impressions of what the thing is. There are 7 mice here and I usually hear the moral told as 4 mice. As far as I know, it comes from the Buddha.
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