This is inevitable when I attempt to clear my mind… the floodgates open. Sometimes I keep pen and paper nearby, so I can write down my ideas. Once they are on paper, it means I can then dump them out of my head, but still have a record of the ideas for later.
…on a side note… I completely disagree with GoComics removing the comments from Political Cartoons. I may not agree with everyone’s comments, but I will proudly stand up for their right to make them.
Lotsa Brady Bunch stuff in there—if he wants to know whatever happened to them, he should check out the fairly recent HGTV renovation of the original house used for the exterior shots on the Brady Bunch show…
The Western world’s way of meditating bears little resemblance to the meditation ways of other cultures. Part of the problem is the movie/TV stereotype of meditation: sitting down with eyes closed and emptying your head of everything. That’s not meditation!
Maybe it’s a lifetime of playing music and a childhood of practicing baseball stuff, but blanking my mind is easy for me. Like Yogi Berra said “How can you think and hit at the same time?” You have to practice stuff like that enough so you can do it without thinking.
BasilBruce about 2 months ago
For some guys, medication works better than meditation.
Rocky Premium Member about 2 months ago
Better than me…
ronaldspence about 2 months ago
“Be still and know” Stillness is underrated but it is all you have left after everything is said…
hariseldon59 about 2 months ago
Clear your mind of all thoughts? That shouldn’t be hard for Pig.
Gent about 2 months ago
Well Rat. You still has the beer solution.
Concretionist about 2 months ago
My meditation coach said that when I noticed my mind starting to gabble, I should react by “gently prefering silence”.
Seemed to work as well as anything else.
Buoy about 2 months ago
Sooo… don’t make me one with everything?
orinoco womble about 2 months ago
Focus on your breath, Rat. Focus on your breath.
spikelovesmusic about 2 months ago
This is inevitable when I attempt to clear my mind… the floodgates open. Sometimes I keep pen and paper nearby, so I can write down my ideas. Once they are on paper, it means I can then dump them out of my head, but still have a record of the ideas for later.
electricshadow Premium Member about 2 months ago
He lasted half a second. I’m jealous.
deojaideep aka Courage about 2 months ago
I cannot even do that! These people always say Meditate, but no one tells you the way to do it! Clear your mind, HTH do you do that???
baraktorvan about 2 months ago
I cannot meditate, my ADHD brain keeps shorting it out.
win.45mag about 2 months ago
This seems like a paid advert for Steiners Tavern, in Sonoma. Pablos hippopotamuses. LOL.
win.45mag about 2 months ago
And why he can’t grow zucchini well is beyond me. That stuff grows faster than weeds, and you always have more than you could ever use in a lifetime.
juicebruce about 2 months ago
Rat you must think like a Croc …. Croc Power !
iggyman about 2 months ago
Steiners Tavern, ah product placement!
mrwiskers about 2 months ago
Is rat hearing voices, too?
Ignatz Premium Member about 2 months ago
Fake Jan deserved more credit, even though she wasn’t Eve Plumb.
emoten9323 about 2 months ago
HTH? Why you just watch an orange-utan speach. Oh, wait, I guess blow your mind is not the same thing.
chris_o42 about 2 months ago
The “monkey mind” is what gets in the way of meditation and Rat has it bad.
[Traveler] Premium Member about 2 months ago
Jan Brady?
Ellis97 about 2 months ago
Meditating ain’t easy. How do yoga masters do it?
Znox11 about 2 months ago
…on a side note… I completely disagree with GoComics removing the comments from Political Cartoons. I may not agree with everyone’s comments, but I will proudly stand up for their right to make them.
Differentname about 2 months ago
Try spending the first thirty seconds thinking about car crashes and explosions.
Get it out of your system.
mfoldude Premium Member about 2 months ago
I think Rat has it right: Watch the thought come — Say, “F it.” — Let it go.
morningglory73 Premium Member about 2 months ago
That’s true for most people. The mind is a good servant but a poor master.
mindjob about 2 months ago
“Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void” – TNK
SusieB about 2 months ago
Much to my dismay I can’t roll my R’s either. Not a good thing for speaking Spanish
bkochzzz about 2 months ago
Peter Brady??
ivanprime93 about 2 months ago
Meditation doesn’t work for me at all.
aerotica69 about 2 months ago
Every time I try to clear the thoughts from my head, some annoying song (like “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia”) creeps in on auto repeat.
Linguist about 2 months ago
I’ve been to Steiner’s Tavern years ago. At the time, it was the only decent bar in Sonoma.
rshive about 2 months ago
Suppose that the thoughts don’t want to leave willingly?
SteveHL about 2 months ago
Thanks to Google, I now know that Pablo Escobar really did have hippopotamuses.
And Rat, you might have picked up the dry cleaning, but you certainly didn’t pick up the dry cleaners. (I know – unnecessarily picky.)
Dave M about 2 months ago
Jan Brady?
ladykat about 2 months ago
Some of us can’t even do that much.
oish about 2 months ago
Upside-down text:
“What is the best recipe for spaghetti bolognese Ted Williams”
…Bolognese sauce, known in Italian as ragù alla bolognese or ragù bolognese, is a meat-based sauce in Italian cuisine
Ted Williams – the key ingredient to victory and being the best?
Now that’s a spicy meatball!
grecodan about 2 months ago
Yes, Rat, The Godfather 3 should NEVER have been made. Ditto the Indiana Jones sequels. Well, maybe the one wit Sean Connery…
miltondavis about 2 months ago
Steiner’s looks very cool…
T Smith about 2 months ago
That’s why it’s called a “practice.”
Goat from PBS about 2 months ago
Why can’t I roll my r’s? I’ve been trying. “Un perro corre en un carro.”
tvstevie about 2 months ago
Dan Aykroyd’s Marshmallow in the first “Ghostbusters” movie!
zeexenon about 2 months ago
My strong recommendation … a hangman’s knot for you.
Bilan about 2 months ago
If you try to empty your mind and let other thoughts in, you’ll remember things like forgetting to turn off the iron.
txmystic about 2 months ago
Lotsa Brady Bunch stuff in there—if he wants to know whatever happened to them, he should check out the fairly recent HGTV renovation of the original house used for the exterior shots on the Brady Bunch show…
txmystic about 2 months ago
Oh, and the best recipe for Spaghetti Bolognese is the one I’m using for dinner this evening…
Algolei I about 2 months ago
Monkeys indeed.
jadem308 about 2 months ago
Me too
wordsmeet about 2 months ago
The Western world’s way of meditating bears little resemblance to the meditation ways of other cultures. Part of the problem is the movie/TV stereotype of meditation: sitting down with eyes closed and emptying your head of everything. That’s not meditation!
joannesshadow about 2 months ago
Rat needs a Pensieve.
willie_mctell about 2 months ago
Maybe it’s a lifetime of playing music and a childhood of practicing baseball stuff, but blanking my mind is easy for me. Like Yogi Berra said “How can you think and hit at the same time?” You have to practice stuff like that enough so you can do it without thinking.
pamela welch Premium Member about 2 months ago
Half a second is a stretch.
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 2 months ago
I have trouble with meditating. But then I’m not a sociopath like Rat.
blindavocado Premium Member about 2 months ago
The only time I think about global warming is when I think how weak minded someone has be to take it seriously
John Jorgensen about 2 months ago
Ho boy, this sure is relatable.
B.comics.61 about 2 months ago
“Did I pick up the dry cleaners mother”? Gotta be a good story behind that one.
Swirls Before Pine about 2 months ago
A shotgun works.
thomas.overmyer Premium Member about 1 month ago
The “Godfather 3” should never have been made. Now there’s something we can all agree on!