Buddhism

  • Stephen Chow’s A Chinese Odyssey is among my favorite adaptations of the Monkey King story I think it would be safe to say that the story of the Monkey King, Journey to the West, is the most often and most widely adapted story in Asian culture. The story chronicles the wild and mischievous Monkey King’s

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  • Every Now and Zen

      Humor is incongruity in action. The universe is incongruous. Humor is therefore the best expression of the truth underlying the universe. It is, in its very essence, the heart of Zen. (Stanley Bing, Throwing the Elephant) It is not easy to successfully maintain a gimmick through 200 pages. But Stanley Bing does it. Despite

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