Jarvis often thought of a parable Pema once told him: A woman walking in the forest comes upon a pride of tigers. (Jarvis joked, “In Buddhism, tigers are always around teaching stuff.”) The tigers begin chasing her and she runs. They’re getting closer when she comes to a cliff. There are vines growing down and, holding on to them, she descends. But then she looks below her and sees more tigers waiting at the bottom of the cliff. She looks again and sees a mouse above her gnawing at the vines. When she looks straight ahead, she sees beautiful ripe strawberries growing in front of her. She looks
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