Self-conception is your assumption through prefix ‘I am” which you apply after some self-delineating noun or adjective and believing “I am this” or “I am like that”. Due to self-conception articulated through beliefs “I am this” or “I am like that”, you live self-ignorantly, rigidly and conflictingly with yourself and your ecosystem.

Your existence is dependent on your constituent cause and conditions. Self or the sense of “I am this” or ” I am like that” arises due to your association and identification with the known and unknown cause and conditions.

The sense of self arise due to self-conception or self-ideation through your identification or association with self-delineating labels based on artificial ideas like name, age, gender, class, caste, nationality, religion, beliefs, eternal self, good, bad etc., thus affecting your natural processes of life, making you rigid, insecure and conflicting with your ecosystem. Self is neither eternal or immortal nor independent of its constituent cause and conditions in any way.

Due to self-conception, the quality of your life experience diminishes, and you are not able to explore your full potential to live life. Just like painful knee or upset stomach makes you conscious of it, so also, self-consciousness is symptom of some disorder in your constitution. Self is like a psychological tumor in mind.

Self-delineation and self-conception due to your association or identification with known and unknown is self-ignorance. Without self-conception or self-delineation, you are a natural phenomenon of knowing or awareness which can be known through reflection but cannot be labeled. Without self, you are like formless water, flexible, resourceful, adapting, nurturing, yielding and yet menacing in the given conditions.

Practical experience is obvious and natural. Artificial belief is necessary when there is no natural obviousness. When there is no natural obviousness, beliefs are justified based on logic or reason that is mostly superficial and convoluted. Beliefs exist for some reason, and the reasons are mostly ill motivated. Authorities use beliefs in the baseless ideas in order to grab and control arbitrarily for selective interests.

It is better to remember and recognize through curiosity, experience and knowledge rather than believe or assume based on superficial logic. Ability to question and doubt is natural human tendency of cautiousness, and it should be exercised at all times. Even animals are naturally cautious.

It is natural to doubt and ask plenty of questions. Ask questions and do not settle for wrong answers. It is better to live without answers rather than believe in wrong answers.

Faith and belief can kill your curiosity, your ability to question and your ability to live life with beginners mind of an original explorer. Beliefs, worship or devotions can make you fatalist and ignorant of the reality.

Blind faith and beliefs are psychological sedatives that can help you to bear suffering but never outgrow it. Beliefs and faith is result of your wishful thinking out of desires and aversions unlike trust and confidence which you have through training, practical experience and knowledge.

You have confidence and trusts in your carers, for example parents and teachers, out of your past practical experience. If you have trust and confidence based on training and practical experience, you do not need belief or faith.