Cultural Perspectives On Aging And Karma
Ingaōhō (因果応報) means that good or bad deeds in a previous life or in the past are the cause, and good or bad results are brought about in the present as retribution. The word karma is often used in this…
Examines various current events along with historical facts
Examines various current events along with historical facts
The Magic Of Suppressing Intolerance
“Never forget your beginner’s mind,” was the phrase that Zeami (世阿弥, c1363~c1443), who perfected Noh (能), preached as the secret of the (performing) arts. The phrase appears in Kakyo (花鏡, 1402), the first volume of Fushikaden (風姿花伝, 1424), a treatise…
Destructive Globalism Shatters Tranquil Isolation
Sakoku (locked or closed country) refers to the isolationist policy implemented during the reign of the third Tokugawa Shogunate shogun, Iemitsu (1604~1651), in the Edo period (1603~1868), which restricted Japanese travel abroad and the arrival of foreign ships with the…
The Fate Of Those Whom Modern Medicine Classified As Vulnerable
Detailed investigations after the fact have determined that the cause of death from the Spanish Flu, which claimed the lives of approximately 50 to 100 million people between 1918 and 1919, was vaccine-related. The rulers knew that vaccines, which were…