Hagar the Horrible and Thinking

Hagar's Climb

The creator of the Hagar family series, Dik (Richard) Browne (1917-89), was an American cartoonist. Browne told that the often confused Hagar was Norwegian - a reluctant taxpayer with amusingly imperfect success in dealing with his job – looting and pillaging – and home life, dealing with the comme il faut.

Hagar won worldwide recognition after being created and launched in 1973.

"The likable one learns to ask for a second opinion to avoid getting stuck in the next best things of life." [Maxim]

Now compare the slope scene above with a Taoist image where a whole is divided in two parts. A whole may be represented by some visual image: a circle, a square, and oval and so on.

To the right is the snow and it's intensely bright - it's heaven to skiers - (Chinese: yang)
To the left is the darkness of the world (night, cold, and so on) (Yin in Chinese)
"The "dividing line" or sloping line is called the Way." It can be a narrow track at times, going up and down. Some call it Tao (Dao). It matters to enter on it.
The "moon" to the left is light in the darkness of yin (Yang in Yin).
Similarly, the bumpy cave in the snow to the right is darkness in the "skier's heaven" (in the "snow") - (Yin in Yang)

The slopy illustration conforms in main outline to the traditional yin yang emblem, but for its squareness and the dividing or meeting zone between yin and yang: the traditional emblem has it curved, like a mirrored S.

Figure 3: Yin yang symbol

Note how easily the common tangram circle of Taoism may be changed into a square:

Figure 4: Two common ways to represent a whole - Finally the tangram figure is turned into a "slope scene" square too.

The "square of the world" shows world darkness (yin), the heavenly brightness (yang), and a way of balance or reconciliations and much else: (Tao). The added words are deep Chinese terms that can be up to perfect matches at times, depending on the settings.

For the sake of meditation or hibernation some dig into snowy slopes. Ice bears on Svalbard do. Many yogis enter caves in mountan sides too - snowy or not. The bird's-eye'view of the formidable Viking backup philosophy of Taoism is now almost completed.

Best Things

A.
Hagar the Horrible 1

A SEARCH matters. The most welcome answers may fit the heart too. The rest may not be as good as that. Little by little one may see it.

B.
Hagar the Horrible 2

THIS is quite a molesting viewpoint. Yet there are others. Buddha endoreses a way (here: climb) that avoids extremes, be they of fasting, merry-making, gambling, and so on.

C.
Hagar the Horrible 3

"TO WHAT key of happiness?" - There can be many odd disciplines, many kinds of trainees too. And the likeable one learns to ask for a second opinion to avoid getting stuck in the next best things of life.

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