Take a break everyone.From a collection of Zen and pre-Zen...

Take a break everyone.
From a collection of Zen and pre-Zen writings:

Buddha told a parable in a sutra:

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.
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!

Australia has been through a lot this year, as has the whole world. Time to take in a deep breath and slowly exhale your angst into the air and refill yourselves with better oxygen. Now more than ever, we need people at Peace with themselves.

Hang in there and be strong.