每个孩子迟早都会问："我从哪里来，又要往哪里去？"人与生命、与宇宙之间是什么关系？生命与生命之前的状态有什么联系？生命之后又是什么？这些都是人最自然的疑问，人确实需要对它们有所解答，以此作为一切行为的基础。

Where did I come from, and where am I going? is the question on every child's lips at some stage. What is the relationship between man, life and the universe? What is the link between life and what was before life, and what is after life? These are all the most natural of questions which man wants an answer to, and indeed needs an answer to, to form a basis for all actions.

“没有答案，我们便只能以有限的视角看待生命，即……”

Without an answer, we are simply running with a limited view of life, i.e.

“只顾当下、不论过去与未来”的人生观，就好比应聘工作时，从不询问公司的历史、将为谁工作、前任为何离职、这份工作究竟是什么、它可能如何发展、晋升前景如何等等。只是一味要求得到这份工作，却完全不考虑过去与未来及二者之间的关联，这是肤浅而幼稚的。

what is here and now with no regard to the past and future. Such a view of life is comparable to applying for a job without asking the interviewer what the history of the company is, who they will be working for, why the previous person left, what the job is, how the job is likely to develop, what the prospects for promotion are and so on. To simply ask for the job without any reference to the past and the future and how they are related is superficial and naive.

如果一个人被迷晕后在一间昏暗的房间里醒来，他自然会问：是谁把我放在这里的？我为什么在这里？接下来会发生什么？

Should a person be drugged and wake up in a darkened room, he will naturally ask; who put me here? why am I here? and what will happen next ?

（或者房间外面是什么？）关于死后会发生什么的问题，让许多人心生不安；如果没有令人信服的答案，很多人便会回避这个话题。如果我们把出生前的存在看作未知，有人或许会说这与我们无关，但我们终将在死后回到一种看似不确定的境地。事实是，我们想要并且需要答案，而且希望答案清晰明确、毫无疑问。

(or what is outside the room?). Questions of what happens after death evoke in many an uneasy feeling, a feeling that many shy away from if they do not have a convincing answer. If we look upon existence before our birth as unknown, one might say is doesn't concern us, but we all return to a situation of seeming uncertainty after death. The truth of the matter is that we want and need answers, and we want answers with absolute clarity and certainty.

对人、生命与宇宙及其相互关系这一问题，通过开明的思想给出全面的回答，便能为所有问题提供解决之道。这一更为根本的问题，将成为与人和生命相关的任何事务或问题的基础与参照点。之所以如此，是因为一切问题要么是与这一主要问题相关的局部问题，要么是这一主要问题的结果。人类个体与整体一旦掌握了这一最根本问题的答案，便能够摆脱为任何问题寻找正确参照点而产生的持续忧虑，从而有能力走向进步。

A comprehensive answer to the question of man, life and the universe and their interrelationships through enlightened thought will provide the solution to all problems. This greater problem will act as a base or point of reference to any matter or problem relating to man and life. This is so because all problems are either partial problems related to the main problem or an outcome of the main problem. Armed with an answer to this most basic question mankind individually and collectively is in a position to progress, freed up from the constant worry of finding a correct reference point for any problem.

我们正在寻找我们生活所依据的理念（生活方式）的根基或信条。这一根基或全面的答案必须与现实相符，并且必须得到确凿的证明；否则，由该根基推导出的任何答案都可能是错误的。

We are looking for the basis or creed of the ideology (way of life) for our lives. The basis or comprehensive answer must agree with reality and be categorically proven as correct; otherwise any answer stemming from the basis could be false.