Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 08, 2023

I guess this is Pig’s idea of the “middle way.”

Pig has decided to abide…in bed…

Pig has discovered the Two Noble Truths. Next up, the Fourfold Path.

Does Pig have a super-bladder?

The other 12 hours can be spent with cheese to maximize happy levels

One time I was 13 hours old.

Accept that to suffer is life

When don’t focus on strife

The good one enjoys

The bad background noise

The ugly your neighbor’s fat wife.

Pig will find a way to justify his lifestyle. Sleep a lot, eat cheese, repeat.

Pig is having 43,200 moments of Zen.

There is no living right or living wrong. There’s only Half and Half.

Pig is on the verge of attaining horizontal nirvana.

Bob Seger …. Horizontal Bop ;-)

My Philosophy, by Mr. Pig!

Life is suffering; and even more so if you’re reading books on Buddhism.

Pig, I don’t think that’s what the book meant.

Usually it takes 10 years to achieve enlightenment, but if you work really hard, it takes 20

Actually the Buddhist concept of Duḥkha, though commonly translated as “suffering,” really refers more to the “unsatisfactoriness” or “unease” of life that results from our trying to hold on to things we like, fighting against things we don’t, and our inability to accept that, try as we may, we can’t control outcomes.

I love Pig’s philosophy!

That’s one way to do it.

You’ll certainly suffer less, Pig.

No. I do not consider lying in bed for half the day a good way to live life. Life sucks, deal with it. The easy way is not always the best way.

incorrectly

Another way to think about suffering is that someday God will get rid of it forever – Rev. 21:4

Pig gives new meaning to the term “crazy quilt.”

Pig makes sense, sort of. But he may miss the wrong half!

—And, grammatically, he might have meant he was skipping half of the book. Did you ever think of that, Rat?

If Rat’s holding a beer, he’s on the right track anyway…