What type of men were these?

I was just reading an anecdote…

A school teacher told the famous story of the elephant and the five blind men to his children — but he didn’t mention the word blind. He wanted to give them an opportunity to find that out for themselves.

So he told the whole story — that five men went to see an elephant and then they reported back.

One said ‘The elephant is like a pillar’ — because he had touched only the legs. Another said ‘He is like a very big fan’ — because he had touched the ear — and so on and so forth. The story was simple, and everybody knows about it.

Then the teacher said, ‘What type of men were these?’

One small boy said, ‘Experts!’

Habits are efficient, so you do them again and again, and the more you do, the more capable you become. Almost everybody has become a certain type of expert — one part of your mind gains expertise, and then through that expertise, it dominates the whole mind.

Osho in Darshan Diary: Be Realistic, Plan for a Miracle

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Acharya Rajneesh (1931-1990), known later as Osho, was an Indian godman, philosopher, mystic and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He was viewed as a controversial religious leader during his life. He rejected institutional religions, insisting that spiritual experience could not be organised into any one system of religious dogma. He advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation. Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he asked his followers to live fully in the world but without attachment to it. Pic courtesy: https://www.sannyas.wiki/