# The Tiger and the Strawberry **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 1, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tiger-and-the-strawberry/790243 "2017-07-01T01:37:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tiger-and-the-strawberry/790243/1 "2017-07-01T01:37:18Z")
A Buddhist parable: There’s a Buddhist parable about a monk who is walking through a field when he is confronted by a fierce tiger. The monk backs away, knowing that just beyond him is a cliff and just below that cliff is the sea. The monk is caught between the beast and sea, and so he chooses to lower himself over the cliff on thick vine. As he does, he is filled with gratitude that the vine can hold him. After his prayer, the monk looks over and sees, growing through the rock on the cliff, a spindly vine with leaves and one bright, red strawberry. He looks up to see the tiger snarling at him and looks down to see the waves leaping and lurching below him. And then the monk plucks the strawberry from its vine and puts it into his mouth, savoring the sweetness. This story was told in a (live action) movie, but I can’t remember which one. Does anyone remember it? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tiger-and-the-strawberry/790243/2 "2017-07-01T01:53:12Z")
Are you sure it was a movie? Because our hero – at his Bill-Bixby-est – tells that story in the only episode of THE INCREDIBLE HULK that won someone an Emmy. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tiger-and-the-strawberry/790243/3 "2017-07-01T02:26:36Z")
I did watch _The Incredible Hulk_ when it was on, so I can’t say it wasn’t there. I just seem to remember it from a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tiger-and-the-strawberry/790243/4 "2017-07-01T02:30:31Z")
Also in an episode of King of the Hill. And now that I think about it, maybe one of the Karate Kid movies? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tiger-and-the-strawberry/790243/5 "2017-07-01T14:20:09Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Also in an episode of King of the Hill. In my mind, I’m _sure_ it was a live-action movie. But this makes me not so sure. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2017, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tiger-and-the-strawberry/790243/6 "2017-07-01T14:25:49Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > In my mind, I’m _sure_ it was a live-action movie. But this makes me not so sure. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45hM7iAkjk8) is the _KotH_ clip. But I know that I’ve seen it in some source fairly recently that isn’t _KotH_ or _The Incredible Hulk_.