>“The necessity of death is to be inferred chiefly from the fact that the human being is a mere appearance, not a thing in itself, hence not something that truly is”
>“For, if it were this, it could not perish.”
>“But that the thing in itself can only manifest itself in appearances of this kind, which it underlies, is a consequence of its disposition.”
In three sentences Schopenhauer said what all of Oriental Philosophy could only point towards and try to touch upon.