Reminds me of a cartoon by R. Crumb.

Mister Natural goes to meditate in the desert. Nothing anywhere around, throws out his blanket and begins. Slowly an entire world builds around him. First someone walks by with plans in their hands. Then you see surveyors measuring things out. Then you see a road get built, houses, buildings being built, shops being opened. Then all kinds of people walking by: businessmen, mothers, kids, hippies, drugs dealers, pimps and bodacious women (R. Crumb signature characters). Finally a uniformed policeman comes up to Mister Natural, taps him on the shoulder and says "Hey buddy, no loitering, you have to move along, you can't just sit in the middle of the road, ya bum!"

Mister Natural, without even glancing up, no hint of irritation or aggression, inhales deeply and then chants a long "OOOoooooooommmm" and the entire world built up around him crumbles back into nothing. He finds himself once again in the open desert, folds up his blanket, gets up and walk off the page.

In this cartoon, both characters look to be a bit less in control than Moster Natural, a little more uncertain, nonplussed or chagrined about what they just witnessed (real or otherwise) but I somehow suspect the two cartoons are in some unspecific but significant way related.

Maybe encounters with sunyathata?

It's so hard to grok non-verbal teachings if you weren't actually there....

James Elliott