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Although questions about life and of life have always remained convoluted throughout human history, most of us still rarely ask ourselves what life is all about and hardly try to understand its real meanings before we plunge into it, not only enthusiastically but also wholeheartedly. Why did famous British scientists, who were initially delegated and sponsored by the Royal Scientific Society of Great Britain to go to India to explore mysterious phenomena, literally abandon everything and voluntarily make their own trip back to the Himalayan Mountains to continue searching for the Truth and live with the Truth at last? -Journey to the East lucidly reveals compelling underlying principles as to why these highly intellectual researchers found the real meaning and purpose of their life. The nature of a human life in the material world that Sakyamuni Buddha clearly explicated in detail in The Four Noble Truths bears a resemblance to the nature of the "Copernican-Galilean-Newtonian Revolution" that the science claimed as the paradigm shift in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. As soon as we accept this body and live on this earth, we experience the gravitational force exerted by the earth and go through "birth, aging, sickness, and death" along with four others with absolutely no exceptions. Regardless of whether Buddha shared his personal experiences with us or not, regardless of whether Galileo Galilei advocated Heliocentrism or not, and regardless of whether Sir Isaac Newton confirmed the existence of gravitation or not, as long as we exist in this earth-that has always been and will always be rotating around the sun, we have no other choice.