All things will pass. I, for one, in the quality of a buddhist in disguise, feel that we must not cling to situations in life. Good things will pass, and so will bad ones. All is transitory, under the sun, and true happiness arises from letting things just be, by dropping all judgment, and joining the flux of life, in a pure state of effortless effort. The solution to the greatest riddle of all is that there is no riddle, plain and simple.

All things will pass. I, for one, in the quality of a buddhist in disguise, feel that we must not cling to situations in life. Good things will pass, and so will bad ones. All is transitory, under the sun, and true happiness arises from letting things just be, by dropping all judgment, and joining the flux of life, in a pure state of effortless effort. The solution to the greatest riddle of all is that there is no riddle, plain and simple.

I was watching the movie “24 hour party people”, and decided to make a strip about a scene that i found particularly striking, which is the one where Tony Wilson is walking down the street and there’s a bum sitting there and he declares out loud to be Boetius, and goes on rambling about “the wheel”, and it was a totally surreal reasoning because it actually made sense.

This wheel here will definitely be a main concept throughout, after all the wheel is all there really is, and the greatest lesson one can learn is that all things are transitory, and that we should enjoy them, but not cling to them, and that life is made of circles, there’s ups and downs, but once we realize that we can step out of the cycle, and just BE. That’s the essence of Ultimate Illumination Extreme(tm) and that’s the very core of my message, here. Well, anyway, more on that later on.

Maybe I’ve just read one too many self-help/new age/mumbo jumbo kind of books, but i’ve really come to believe that the Mind is a very nasty thing which can wreck havoc within, unless one is able to keep it under reign. And i especially believe that most of us are compulsive thinkers, and i keep realizing the extent to which such a statement applies, even as i type these lines.

And thus, we thread steadfast through the realms of redundancy. I’m very curious to find out how people will react to this sort of cartoon, here. Also, i plan on doing a couple of cartoons about that. Redundancy is a powerful weapon to aid the annihilation of the Self, which in turn is the pathway to Being. More on that, later on. It’s getting kind of late now, and i’m beginning to talk funny.

This is just something that I thought of, while trying to think of something new for a strip. A great deal of times, it’s worst to think about something than actually doing it, and that’s more or less the philosophy that I’m trying to put into practice, in the readjusting of my attitude towards this situation. I’m just doing it, and that ought to be enough.

I have this tendency to get tangled up in technicalities, especially where it comes to illustration, which is my craft of choice, and I always end up being the greatest obstacle to my own evolution. Because i always want to be great, i tend to keep delaying things, because i never feel that I’m prepared.

And the reason i never feel that I’m prepared, is that I’m allways busy, thinking too much. Hm… Maybe i need to find some sort of balance, here. Maybe that’s what this is all about, this…. daily webstrip experiment.

Hey, that’s it! Thanks a bunch, dearest readers; this little time that i spend w/ you’se in the chatterbox here always seems to settle my mind, heh.

Since the Hipposwan quit and I needed a new assistant (dunno why, but now it’s too late to think about that), I decided it was just about time to introduced a little T&A, anyway. So there it is. Also, I introduced along w/ it a concept that will be heavily developed in future strips, and which has a lot to do w/ the inextricable duality of human condition, or something like that.

It’s when I make webstrips like this one, that I wish I had some sort of device that would allow me to monitor the viewer’s reaction. Heh, go figure. Maybe someday, all cartoons will be like this….. or not.

My pet mystical creature of imaginary quality has flown south, much to my appall. What next? Will it ever come back? Will there be any further light shed on the matter? One can only hope, and wonder.