FOOD FOR THIS MOMENT

If we give this moment all that we've got, what do we do with the next one?

This was the caption for the "Between Friends" comic strip in Sunday's newspaper. The caption reminds me of a Zen Buddhist koan which is a tale to help someone reach Zen enlightenment.

Here's a second course of "more-food-for-thought":

The Delicious Strawberry

A man traveling across a field encountered a tiger. He fled, the tiger chased 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.
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!

Any thoughts?