An unrealistic perception of life is the basis of fear. The current predicament people are facing is that they are not willing to live, just as they are not willing to die. This fear comes from not living with life but living within ones mind. People always have a fear about what is going to happen next, meaning that there is a constant fear of something that does not yet exist. If ones fear the nonexistent, then their struggle is purely imaginative and existent only within the mind. People are always suffering from either the memory of what happened yesterday or the thought of may happen tomorrow, neither of which are rooted in reality but are manifestations of the mind. Being lost in these thoughts is the basis of fear.