![[1074] The Path Of Zen](/comics/2019-04-08-1074-the-path-of-zen.png "[1074] The Path Of Zen")
- Sandra: I’ve found the path of Zen and I will now meditate to free my mind of stress and desire.
- Richard: Sandra! What are you doing?! Your book report is due tomorrow!
- Sandra: Finding the path of Zen is easy, following it is hard!
- Woo: Maybe you can meditate for 15 minutes on your lunch break tomorrow.
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This is one of my favorite strips in a while. Very relatable!
So that’s it for the shipping strips?
This is pretty relatable. Another good time to meditate would be before a test you have no chance of passing.
I found much success at the rifle range by meditating before taking my position. It worked so well I once put six shots into the same hole.
I’ve found meditation very helpful for my overall peace of mind. I’m not going to claim any sort of real health benefits, but I feel better after basically shutting my brain off for a little while.
What’s happened to the tags?
Sandra’s face when her dad scares her, lol.
Thursday, 21 March was the last time we had tags
She mushin’d when she should have zanshin’d.
Sandra should take instruction from Llewelyn! 🙂
Or, have Llewelyn distract her dad while she meditates. 😉
Way too close to home.
Finally. Back to normal daily slice-of-life comedy strip.
Then have him find out the book to do the report on is something like ‘The Miracle of Mindfulness’ About meditation that their teacher thought would be a good idea.
Let go your earthly tether. Enter the void. Empty… and become wind.
@ MarqFJA87:
I’m guessing the tags will probably return when Novil gets back from Japan.
Osaru Sensei wrote:
Every time I do that, people looks at me in an accusing manner.
They also wish to open a window,
Zen and the art of procrastinating.
This Zen guy was a lazy dude!
It’s good to see the ‘Woo’ back in ‘Sandra and Woo’
That’s the true Zen teaching.
Wash your bowl first, Sandra!
Llewellyn?
This is Sandra’s own fault. While meditating may help against stress, procrastinating does not. If you want to reduce stress, don’t procrastinate. Strategical choices such as first eating, then meditating and finally doing homework is of course perfectly fine, but passing on homework you may as well do today to tomorrow will not help you.
@ ktostam:
And Sandra was enlightened.
And now we will see the path of Woo-Zen. Which frees the mind of stress and desire. It consists of lots of eating, belly rubs and sex.
@ AnotherBear:
For me, a little range time can actually be meditation. When you’re trying to shoot your best, there are many factors that you need to control: stance, grip, sight picture, breathing, trigger control. All this forces me to be totally in the now and to push all distractions aside. So what if my Zen is a little noisy?
@ Wizard:
If you can put aside the noise as a distraction, I can see a lot of similarity with Zen archery. Any discipline that requires training and concentration can have something like this. It’s what athletes call “the Zone”, the Taoists called “wu wei” or unattached action, and Musashi called the zero-thought strike. If you maintain good focus and shove aside all of the second-guessing, you can live in the moment to the extent that you harmonize with it, and your experience and conditioning take over. When that happens, you act on instinct, and the results are more powerful, precise, and perfect than anything else you can ever do intentionally.
@ 路人:
Yes. Major source of stress is to not have enough time to do things you are supposed to do. Finding out more time for meditation or other methods of stress relieving in such situation is not easy.
I prefer meditation with sword at hand… Or lightsaber replica… Proper dark red blade with a qixoni crystal born of living world destroyed by a nova.
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@ Julie:
Amen.
Did I miss something, or is there no Thursday comic this week? ;u;
CrescentScript wrote:
Nope. Mentioned a week before that last week was only getting a single page.
Antiyonder wrote:
That still hasn’t shown up 😉
@ Asrial:
I’m wondering, if Novil is still in Japan or he lost his new ideas for new strips on his travel back to Germany with his luggage. ;P
@Asrial @ Moatl
I have we don’t have to wait until Thursday
@ Random:
Hearing protection helps. To misquote Ty Webb, “Be the bullet.”
Fair warning. Meditation is actually very dangerous and can lead to a highly increased risk of paranoia, schizophrenia, and other mental disorders. Even in the original chinese texts this is a well documented phenomenon known as an “internal demon” and is confirmed by mondern studies. If you are insistent practicing meditation then an instructor from a very long line of practice is more a necessity than optional.
Meditation is dangerous don’t do it on your own.