I ' m a perrenialist , not because it is a tolerant , inclusive , and Warm fuzzy , but because it is not any of those . There is dharma in monism , pantheism , and science . All a faith needs to do is purify and practice insight meditation . There are people in every religion that will realize or die to rebirth in a plane where they will realize . There are 84 , 000 dharma ' s , endless dharma gates , and clinging to any path is clinging to an abstraction of the truth rather than directly experience reality . Buddhism will be diluted , but that ' s the age we are living in . It happens to all religions until at some point , someone explains existence all over again . Maybe science will reach a transcendent conclusion , maybe not , but dharma is innate and always finds its way into our collective consciousness .