Sometimes people say that Tibetan Buddhism is part of Mahayana but I have also heard that Vajrayana counts as a third school, is it part of Mahayana or a completely seperate school?

Not to rain on the parade, but intuition is often wrong.

Pain and Suffering. Golden Dream or Red Herring?

Not me, no way thanks. The smaller raft suits me fine. I admire those who help others across the river, but Arahat for me, then outta here!

Not a Buddhist book, but...

Not yet but meditating prevents me from thinking about smoking. I figure if I meditated more, maybe I would smoke less. I could be wrong. My daughters' father is attempting to quit all smoking at mid…

Just something I thought of while watching the movie Unknown last night where the main character undergoes memory loss due to hitting his head in a car crash:

Alcohol Substitute

Not only tea, in Korea everyone buys little bottles of ginseng extract to make it through the day. The gutters are littered with them. They mostly get them from the numerous apothecary stores that …

Not to my knowledge and if I do it's been a well kept secret from me. My eyes are green and near the pupil redish that is somewhat of a unique eye color I guess.