Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 28, 2019

Well, it certainly looks promising to me.

Well, no Easter Eggs in this one.

This makes me anxious to look at

I’m betting the bears are the only ones finding Nirvana….

Being an adrenaline junkie early on, and surviving to old age; wisdom, or dumb luck?

Wiley’s been smoking up AGAIN !!

been watchin too many videos!

“So far, nobody has reached level VI,…..but the valley floor is littered with V’s….”

Also a reasonable parallel description for the daily rat race. That last one probably is not a ‘golden parachute’.

The journey to enlightenment is filled with traps, so watch out.

Nirvana means getting off the Wheel of Incarnations.

Don’t miss the chute or you will miss Nirvana.

Looks like at IV all the candidates are relieved of their backpacks, so at least some enlightenment is achieved after all.

Wisdom comes from making mistakes and you’re still alive so let’s go with dumb luck!

“Know this, Grasshopper: ‘Junkies lack the freedom to be free. Their Source is within.’”

After being locked in ALL winter during a very COLD winter with a lot of little kids; this is what parents wish they had in the basement or garage… A place to send ’em to ware ’em out.

The American Ninja Enlightenment Show!

a golden parachute for me please.

Rube Goldberg would be proud.

It looks like it’s all downhill from the top.

When I was much younger, I had an adrenaline junkie manager who would make problems happen so he could solve them. It was exhausting working for such a dysfunctional personality. I wonder how exciting it was for him when the Regional Manager came in on a Monday morning and fired his butt. I heard that the then unemployed manager lost his apartment because he could not get a new job fast enough.

Adrenaline junkie x youth = Idiot.

Genius!

Mister completely ;)

Huh. Just tryin’ to stay sane in the USofA these days is enough of an adrenaline high for me.

Just climbing up to Level I exceeds my limits.

The whole thing could be replaced by a Free Climb of El Capitan

Looks like only the first one will get a parachute. The rest get the ultimate (and final) rush.

There can be only one (survivor).

“Well, done, Grasshopper. You have passed the first round of auditions for ‘American Ninja Warrior’”

Also, very nice art today, Wiley.

Okay, they lost me at the zip line. I will never reach enlightenment, but I will settle for wisdom.

Not for acrophobes.

The gurus are adrenaline junkies that were wise enough to understand at that point of their search that the ultimate kick holds less perspective than the penultimate one.

If those gurus all claim to have attained enlightenment already, why are they still using Roman numerals?

The bridge to #I reminds me of this place:

http://travel.spotcoolstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/midi-chamonix-views-2.jpg

The bridge is at aiguille du midi (Val-d’Isère, France) which you cross to ski the glaciers.

You only get past step I if the bears aren’t hungry

Rube Goldberg lives. Thank you Wiley

I once slid down the banister!

It looks like “American Yoga” . Yoga is only for one purpose to destroy ones personality and here they turn it into a “workout” some classes even involve alcohol. It’s like the christian faith as well ….they have turned it into a social club.

The true Guru will put a person thru as many paces as needed (in the persons mind) to achieve what they always had all along but did not realize it. Heaven is within!

“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” You don’t need all ‘this’ to get ‘there’.

The Guru at Step Six just tells them that, if they haven’t figured it out yet, they need to pay him $10,000 for permission to repeat the course.

With “Grade Forgiveness” for the Worst showing.

None of that is as scary as driving over a typical city bridge during rush hour.

Seems to me that the right place for that bear and all his friends would be at the bottom of the hill, for all the folks that don’t make all the steps right.

I hear that the adrenaline makes the meat taste extra delicious!

I’m thinking enlightenment might be overrated.