I think this sums up the collective paradigm of Lost:

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk165/TheKarmicLaws/PeaceKarma-1.png

Both peace and karma are direct results of one's path to discovery, or the direct result, of knowing your purpose. That which isn't unattainable or unachievable without will. Pure will.

Peace comes with acceptance. Accepting that you're going to win, fail, or die trying to accomplish a specific goal. Locke comes to peace regarding his being handicapped. His fear was that the woman he loves finds him less a man because he's unable to walk down the aisle. Now he rolls down it.

Karma is how you're measured while you walk the path to that desired goal. As an existentialist, I don't buy into fate or destiny. I do believe that how you compose yourself affects everything around you and inside of you, which is why Lost so perplexes me and keeps my brain tied in constant knots. There's choice and hope and change and reason which motivates our Losties to do the things they do.

I'm trying to decipher the characters on Helen's shirt to see if they help support any given theory or provide a clue.

Perhaps it's a lot of nothing...

...or, it unlocks one more tumbler in the lock.

I think this sums up the collective paradigm of Lost:

http://i280.photobucket.com/albums/kk165/TheKarmicLaws/PeaceKarma-1.png

Both peace and karma are direct results of one's path to discovery, or the direct result, of knowing your purpose. That which isn't unattainable or unachievable without will. Pure will.

Peace comes with acceptance. Accepting that you're going to win, fail, or die trying to accomplish a specific goal. Locke comes to peace regarding his being handicapped. His fear was that the woman he loves finds him less a man because he's unable to walk down the aisle. Now he rolls down it.

Karma is how you're measured while you walk the path to that desired goal. As an existentialist, I don't buy into fate or destiny. I do believe that how you compose yourself affects everything around you and inside of you, which is why Lost so perplexes me and keeps my brain tied in constant knots. There's choice and hope and change and reason which motivates our Losties to do the things they do.

I'm trying to decipher the characters on Helen's shirt to see if they help support any given theory or provide a clue.

Perhaps it's a lot of nothing...

...or, it unlocks one more tumbler in the lock.

I have been studying Chinese for many years and live in Shanghai, China now. The characters on the shirt: 精神啟示 and 喚醒的靈魂 refer to similar ideas and obviously directly connected to the Peace and Karma on here shirt. 精神 (Jing Shen) means Spirit and 啟示 (Qi Shi) means revelation. 唤醒 (Huan Xing) means to wake up from something and 靈魂 （Ling Hun) means soul, so the soul that is waking up.

Sort of like with the characters on Jack's tattoos, some of the characters are Traditional characters, the ones that they still use in Taiwan, Hong Kong, as well as in some formal settings and in older texts.

Now let's revisit Walkabout where John calls the walkabout a journey of spiritual renewal, where one derives strength from the earth and becomes inseparable from it." Wow, that is exactly what the translation is in Chinese. Coincidence. I doubt it. So, since Helen is wearing the shirt, can we infer that SHE is his new walkabout. He is drawing strength from her (the earth in this analogy, much like mother earth is usually depicted).

In The Substitute, alt. Locke calls the Walkabout the opposite of his previous description. An adventure about man versus nature (I think that's right.) So instead of becoming one with the Earth, he is fighting with it. Why this change? I'm not sure but I think it tells us a lot about who alt. Locke is vs. original Locke. Talking about the same Walkabout, but polar opposite descriptions of the relationship between man and nature. Is it too much of a stretch to say that the very LAW of nature/man is different in this universe without the island? Yeah probably.

It seems in this altaverse, we have seen Hurley/Locke/Rose all having spiritual revelations of sorts, accepting their fate, but there seems to be a link to reincarnation here too. And remember Ben's van last season with its nod to reincarnation as well.