Religion
“That’s bad Karma, Dude”
I started wondering exactly what karma means, and where the word comes from. In Chinese, karma is two characters (因果) which literally translate as “cause and effect”. The original word Karma comes from Sanskrit and it means “act, action, performance.” In Sanskrit (your) karma is what causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., [...]
A Chinese Odyssey
There’s a 500 year old book from China called “Journey to the West” or “Monkey“. It’s a folk tale that wraps in a lot of historical and cultural elements, while being very entertaining. Like Frankenstein, it was authored under a false name and the real author remained unknown for about 300 years. It has become [...]
