yes so get cracking ...let's have the koan!!!!!!!!!! merle
Merle and Mike,
Okay, this story is labeled a 'parable' which as I said is not a koan -
although could serve as the basis for a koan.
...Bill!
--- In [email protected], uerusuboyo@... wrote:
>
> Merle,<br/><br/>With pleasure!<br/><br/>18. A Parable<br/><br/>Buddha told
> a parable in sutra:<br/><br/>A man traveling across a field encountered a
> tiger. He fled, the tiger after him. Coming to a precipice, he caught hold of
> the root of a wild vine and swung himself down over the edge. The tiger
> sniffed at him from above. Trembling, the man looked down to where, far
> below, another tiger was waiting to eat him. Only the vine sustained
> him.<br/><br/>Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to
> gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the
> vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it
> tasted!<br/><br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad
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