The Sparrow and the Mouse

[Scholar]

Deep in the night a Sparrow met a Mouse.

"I told you, right up there, thousands of them, don't you see them?", said the Sparrow, pointing to the sky with one of his wings.

"No, I don't see anything, only leafs and dirt!", the Mouse argued, looking around to find the so called 'stars'.

The Sparrow was aghast, not able to comprehend how the Mouse could be so blind. "Not on the ground, up here! How can you not see them, they are everywhere!"

"No, I don't see anything on the ground, only leafs and dirt!", the Mouse repeated, increasingly frustrated with the Sparrow's arrogance.

"No, not on the ground! You have to look up here, the stars are in the sky!", the Sparrow chirped, fluttering his wings passionately for the Mouse to see.

Once more the Mouse looked around. He looked in front and behind, to his left and to his right, even beneath his own four paws! Yet, he could not find a single one of the stars! "I am looking, there are no stars on the ground! I knew you were lying all along little Sparrow. Stars don't exist, stars could not possibly exist!"

The Mouse crawled back into his burrow to go to sleep. Now all by himself, the sparrow would watch the night, the stars and the moon. Until the sun would rise he would sit on his perch, gazing far up, where the Mouse would never take a glance.

 

 

Had this pop into my mind after I had a discussion with someone about how they were stuck in their paradigm, that they would not be able to see the limitations of their perspective if they would not make attempts to escape it. I tried to tell them that they had to stop thinking and instead focus on what their thoughts were pointing to in their experience, so they could see them for what they truly were. They couldn't do it, they still responded with the same thoughts I was trying to tell them to inspect. They didn't have the ability to question the seemingly self-evident, they were completely deaf to what I was trying to communicate. It was so weird, I felt just like the Sparrow.