"Just people," Kathy confirmed. "Some extraordinary people have transcended themselves to better help us on our path to enlightenment, but they weren't, like, born special or anything. They just worked hard to on their own personal journey. That's kind of the central tenant of Buddhism. You work hard to find enlightenment and leave the world better than you found it. It's where we get the concept of 'karma' from. Basically, whatever you put into the world will come back to you, good or bad."

Okay, that was really the briefest and most basic explanation ever, but it didn't seem the best time to give Anders a thorough grounding in a religion that Kathy didn't even follow and her mun knew even less about omg.