Neo
A character in “the movie The Matrix… (played by Keanu Reeves), who discovers that he’s been inhabiting a dream world.” Neo’s life is an archetypal hallucination.
Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne)
A rebel leader in the movie The Matrix who tells Neo: “You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else that you cannot taste or see or touch-a prison for your wind.” He appears to Neo through a dream and offers him two pills, red and blue, which will dictate whether he will dwell in his dream world or escape it.
“Western Buddhists”
They comprise "people in the United States and other Western countries, who for the most part, didn't grow up Buddhist but at some point adopted Buddhism." The version of Buddhism they have adopted is deficient in the supernatural aspects associated with Asian Buddhism.
“Wachowski Siblings”
Directors of The Matrix. They required Keanu Reeves to read Robert Wright’s The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life, as a rehearsal for his role in The Matrix.
Robert Wright
He is an evolution psychologist who researches Buddhism and writes the text based on his first-hand experiences with Buddhism.
