Panel 1: Zen Pigz Funnies. Gateless wall no. 5: ``Kyogen in the Tree''. Kyogen said: Zen is like a pig hanging by its teeth in a tree over the edge of a cliff. © 1993, 1996 Berglund F. Synd.
Panel 2: Its fore-trotters hold no branch, its rear trotters rest on no limb.
Panel 3: An under the tree another pig asks ``Why did Paul go to
Antarctica?''
If the pig in the tree does not answer it fails and if it does
answer it falls to its death. What shall it do?
Panel 4: Mumon's comment: In this situation, eloquence is of no use: you cannot use the Sutras even if you memorized them. If you can give the right answer, you open a road of life from death.
Panel 5: Otherwise you ought to live in the far future and ask Kai Holliston.
Panel 6: Kyogen is certainly a qat, spreading poison that closes its pupils' mouths, so their dead eyes cry!