The third way of looking at new things

There’s a teaching story about an island on which there were no mangoes.  On day a cargo ship was thrown about on a storm. The ship went through the harsh ocean safely. However, a crate of mangoes fell into the ocean and landed on the island shore.

The islanders who had never seen any mangoes were curious and a group of their scientists examined some mangoes. They cut them up, dissected them, analyzed the mangoes and discovered facts, and facts and facts about the mangoes.

A second group looked at the mangoes. They noted their looks and painted them. Some of this group wrote beautiful poems about the mangoes. An yet a few others made sculptures of the mangoes large and small.

Finally a tiny group of the islanders first smelled the wonderful odor of the mangoes, then they felt the skin and decided that they were edible and finally bit into the mangoes and ate them.

In reality there is a little of each of the three above ways of understanding things in each of us:

1. The scientific/analytical way.
2. The artistic/romantic way.
3. The third experiential way.

I’m not saying that the experiential way is always the best. In fact a little of all the three ways is needed for a complete understanding. It is just that most people use one of the first two ways and we do not typically “suck it and see.” We talk too much and do not use direct experience enough.

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