From the author: D. Sokolov from the book “Patchwork Quilt or Psychotherapy in Zen Style” A certain sage, who devoted his entire life to studying the most secret books, achieved final enlightenment. At that moment, he wrote into his treatise the phrase “For everything is Spirit, and there is nothing but spirit” - and from the excess of inner light he ran out into the street. But I must say that in recent years he almost never went outside and that his room was quite dark, and it happened at noon, in the south. So as soon as he ran out, the bright sun blinded him. Seeing nothing, he rushed down the street and, of course, ran into someone, and they called him something dirty and, in my opinion, obscene. And he, not accustomed to hearing anything but holy words about the Deepest, became deaf. And so he rushed further, not seeing or hearing anything, and after some time, he fell under a horse. And, feeling the hardness of the hooves, he realized that this was not final enlightenment. But for a long time later, in the most joyful moments of his life, he remembered this state - so similar to bliss: running down the street and being blind and deaf. And it seemed to him that if he had made it, the life of him and his generation would have changed for the better. If it weren’t for the horse... D. Sokolov from the book “Patchwork Quilt or Zen Psychotherapy”"