"The Matrix" explained as an allegory for Buddhism

For anyone that doesn't get the whole obsession some people have with the first of the series I believe looking at it as an age-old story makes more sense. An allegory is a new story based on an old religious story. Most common is the story of the prophecy and messiah as seen in the first Dune novel and its parallels of the Christ story (but that is another topic all together), but in the essence of "The Matrix" is the essence of Buddhism. The matrix is an illusion to all those that believe in it or have not been enlightened to see it as an illusion. Buddhism teaches that all life is an illusion, and only those that can see past the illusion to achieve enlightenment. Enlightenment is nirvana.

The first person to achieve such enlightenment was Sidharrtha Guytma, (the Buddha), and the matrix played by Neo as he sees what the matrix really is in a new and different way then all others.