From the author: True knowledge, as Socrates understood it, is designed to give a person the right guidelines for his daily life. Therefore, the value of all knowledge - natural human and divine phenomena and relationships - is to learn how to intelligently conduct human affairs. The road of self-knowledge leads a person to an understanding of his place in the world, to an understanding of “what he is like in relation to using himself as a person.” (Xenophon. Memoirs of Socrates) Ricco, a high government official of the Tang Dynasty, during his conversation with the Zen teacher Nansen said: Heaven and earth and I are from one root, Tens of thousands of things and I are made of the same thing, and continued: “Isn’t this a wonderful observation?” Nansen drew the visitor’s attention to the flowering plants in the garden and said: “The people of the world look at these flowers as if they were seeing them in a dream.” Most often, we live as if in a dream, dozing in reality, We live on autopilot. We believe that the sun rises and sets, although we know very well that this is not so, and that the planet rotates. We think that twilight has deepened, although we know very well that there is no darkness, but only the absence of the light of a star called the Sun, which is on the other side of planet Earth when night comes. Have you ever wondered how people walk on that side of our planet? If we are vertical here, does that mean they are there - upside down? )))Everything in the world is relative and, therefore, it is very useful to remember this sometimes. Then, you see, you will change your mind about shouting at your loved one, and maybe such a philosophical vision will even help you realize that a bus that is 10 minutes late from the schedule. - not such a big tragedy compared to the eternal values! Light and Love!