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2008-10-20: Learning Zen (the first question)
A journey of knowledge
This is my favourite joke to tell people. "I'm a bodhisattva!"
Get it?
You'll have to take my word for it but Rabid does indeed have a thousand arms in the last panel.
This comic is in the storyline:
- Variations
A long-running series, maybe the crux of the site. Reader submits a suggestion, and I draw three comics based on that suggestion. Originally all three had to start the same, but it evolved.
This begins a storyline which spans the following comics:
| 2008-10-20 |
Do Learning With Comics
Learning Zen (the first question) |
| 2008-10-22 | Learning Zen (wei wu wei) |
| 2008-10-24 | Learning Zen (difficult questions) |
Text transcript
[[RABID AND FRIENDS (tm) DO LEARNING WITH COMICS!! (tm) WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH ZEN PART ONE: THE FIRST QUESTION]] Dr Quickly: Okay! You've waited outside for six weeks! But now you have to answer a TRULY DIFFICULT QUESTION with COMPLETE TRUTHFULNESS!! Rabid: Okay! Dr Quickly: WHO ARE YOU?!?! Rabid: I'm a bodhisattva! <<KICK!>> Dr Quickly: OH REALLY? How long have "you" been a bodhisattva? Rabid: I dunno... what time is it now? Dr Quickly: You got me!! Rabid and Dr Quickly: HIGH FIVE!!