"Gone, gone, totally gone." <--parinirvana

So, if I were a mutant, I would totally be Siren. It's not just because I have the ability to do a "defense scream" that renders my (unwitting) assailant both deaf and in pain. I can also sneeze loud enough to essentially make the house shake. I should try that in my Asian Art class sometime and see if I can stun the professor.

If the title of the post hasn't given it away, I have a Japanese Religion test tomorrow. I'm pretty confident, since I knew a lot about Gautama Buddha, Theravada, and Mahayana Buddhism before the class. Also, all the other stuff we learned interested me, so I remember it well. Can't wait to get into Zen Buddhism, though, because Esoteric Buddhism upsets me fundamentally. It's so...wrong. All the bohdhisattvas annoy me- well, not really the bohisattvas, just the way they are changed. They're almost like Buddhist saints, and that's not what the original concept was at all. It just seems like they corrupted the historical Buddha's teachings so very, very much and ended up missing the whole point.

It's still very beautiful, though. There are so many rich traditions and rituals associated with Esoteric Buddhism. Then again...to me, that's part of the problem.