A monk was being chased by a ferocious tiger through the forest. When be came to the edge of a cliff,
he stopped. As the tiger quickly approached, he pondered if he should wait to be killed and eaten by the tiger, or to jump to certain death. Just before the tiger reached him, he jumped. As he fell, he reached out and latched onto a tree branch which broke his fall. He looked up at the tiger who was waiting at the top to kill him. And he looked down at the long fall to his death. At that moment, he noticed a strawberry growing out of the side of the cliff in front of his face. He plucked it and smelled it. He looked up at the hungry tiger and back down at the ground, then ate the strawberry. It was the sweetest strawberry he’d ever tasted!