He says, “Thank you for this dream.” She says, “You were never a dream. You were the awakener.”
In a standard romance, he would teach her stillness, and she would teach him joy. But in the Zen extreme version, their friction creates a third state: He says, “Thank you for this dream
Consider the plot of The Rooftop Sutra : Two strangers meet on a rooftop in Tokyo. He is dying of a terminal illness and has taken a vow of non-attachment to ease his passing. She is a divorcee who has sworn off love to protect her child. he would teach her stillness