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What is happening around us? Who or what rules all that we perceive? What does it depend on? What will happen when our life is over? Why do we suffer and whether this be can avoided? Why injustice takes place in the world? When will our worries be over? What are the “supreme forces” looking at?

The rhythmic influx of suffering and anxiety force us to take a try to investigate what is happening and think about this matter again and again, looking for the guilty.

All the thoughts that we will discuss are not newly invented. They are thousands of years old, and maybe more. No matter who it was – Greek, Chinese or Indian. Let’s try to explore a rather complicated issue without scientific terms and without religious and scientific dogmas. So that our thought could be accepted by any person.

So, here’s what we’ll try to substantiate:

– We are an indivisible eternal unchangeable consciousness.

– All that except this is unconscious matter.

– Our existence does not end after the death of our body.

– Suffering is an integral part of being.

– Ignorance of the structure of the world is the cause of suffering.

– God is the top of the pyramid of hierarchy, but not the creator.

– Everything that happens has an eternal unchanging cycle.

– The concept of sin is a social regulator of society, not a supernatural law.

– All the characters in the universe move strictly on their storylines.

– Freedom of choice does not exist in principle.

– The possibility to exist without suffering for a long time is present, but it is temporary.

Also, we shall discuss other aspects of our life in the course of reflection.

What shall we use for our research? What tools will we use? What will be evident and obvious for any person?

Our immediate personal experience, which any man possesses and a logical conclusion. The logical conclusion is simple without academic difficulties.

After all, each person has ears, skin, eyes, tongue, nose, and the corresponding sensations, and mind. Also, everyone has an ego and intellect. Everyone has these tools for research.

Intellect allows us to compare our experience and draw a logical conclusion.

Some offer a third kind of knowledge through the scriptures, scientific literature, as authoritative evidence. But we are not all familiar with the authors or heroes of these works, and we cannot verify their trustworthiness, so this method is suitable for those who used to believe a word, but this is not appropriate for all.

Whatever we do, about what we think, in one thing we all are similar. We all would prefer to exist without suffering and fear, experiencing comfort and joy.

Let’s try to define such basic questions – who we really are, and what are we here for, and how to get what we desire?

It is not necessary to be a doctor of science, a specialist or a professional philosopher since the basic tools and experience are actually the same for all.

Everyone, interested in these topics, can figure this out. Someone can say that our senses are imperfect, yes, the sense organs are really imperfect, but not the sensations themselves, and the reflections of the intellect are unlimited.

And so, what motivated us to reason or study the issue in general? Discomfort, suffering, anxiety, insecurity, helplessness moves us to constant searching for a way out of this condition.

Let’s define the basic well-known concepts again to bring the meaning of concepts to a common comprehension.