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View submission: Awakening to mortality
Awakening is the realization of Deathlessness; parinirvana is entering the Deathless-element (amrta-dhatu). This is what Buddhism teaches--that, ultimately, our conceptions of birth and death are not actually real to begin with.
Has any of you entertained the thought that all that awakening/enlightenment talk that we have been hearing about from different religions, philosophies and belief systems is just a metaphor of a human being realising their finitude, their mortality and coping with it?
This is a fairly common motif in the school of thought called perennialism, which has been a particularly popular religious outlook in American culture since the mid-19th century, and has taken on quite a wide variety of forms, depending on which religious or spiritual framework one privileges (for instance, the Universalist Unitarian denomination of Protestant Christianity and contemporary New Age spirituality are both different forms of perennialism).
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