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View submission: Awakening to mortality
just a metaphor of a human being realising their finitude, their mortality and coping with it?
That's a very reductive way of looking at it. Buddhist 'awakening' takes this much further. The idea that there is an objectively real human with objective finitude and mortality is an illusion. We think we exist and cease to exist because we misunderstand ourselves and the ultimate nature of all phenomena.
There's nothing here!