What do you see as your ideal life path? What would you like to have tomorrow, in a month, in a year? What do you ideally want to be doing in 5 years? Who's nearby? What's around you? How do you feel in 10 years? What are you doing? What do you have? When will you die and how? If you describe your ideal life in detail, you will find love, freedom, prosperity, and prosperity in it. This is life without problems. There is no pain, loss, illness, disappointment, people you don’t love... The ideal path in life is a path without suffering. Have you seen or know a person who lived his life without suffering? Such a person does not exist, because it is impossible to live your life happily and avoid suffering using the experience of others. Parents and other older relatives are mistaken about this, trying to prevent their children from doing things that, in their opinion, will make them unhappy. They waste energy broadcasting their experience, thereby causing resistance and alienation in their children. You cannot learn to live from the mistakes of others. Therefore, it is impossible to live life without suffering. Through suffering a person learns to live happily. Ancient myths and fairy tales speak about this, when something appears in the lives of the main characters that causes suffering, and, overcoming the obstacles that arise, they acquire spiritual qualities that make them happy. Buddha conveyed to the world his spiritual experience, which he expressed in the so-called four noble truths: 1) suffering exists; 2) suffering has a cause; 3) suffering can be ended; 4) the path leading to this is known. The first truth about the presence of suffering says that any living being necessarily experiences it, and no one can avoid suffering. The second truth speaks about the cause of suffering, when a person wants to see changeable material wealth and spiritual values ​​as constant and suffers whenever they change. The truth of the cessation of suffering states that all suffering can be stopped by giving up all desires and not clinging to anything else. And the path to ending suffering is to use eight principles: 1) liberation from delusions (negative thinking); 2) correct rational thinking (positive thinking); 3) kindness, openness, honesty (spiritual values ​​manifested in character traits); 4) peaceful, honest actions (responsible behavior); 5) a correct lifestyle that does not cause harm to oneself and others (responsible behavior, respect for rights); 6) self-education and self-control (reflection, introspection); 7) attention, active, vigilant mind (free attention for awareness and inclusion in the moment, the principle of “here and now”); 8) concentration through deep meditation on the true essence of the world (establishing a connection with a Higher Power) In parentheses I wrote modern terminology that is used in describing human mental health. Today, medicine that deals with diseases of the body, psychotherapy designed to treat the soul, and spiritual directions that strengthen the human spirit rely on this philosophy of Buddhism. I also suggest using these ancient truths and principles because they are still effective today if followed. So, from the second truth of the Buddha's philosophy it follows that before you go to your happiness, you need to find the cause of suffering. Together with Yulia Vasyukova