A Temporary Affair Quotes

“The first thing you find when you take up meditation is that you are face to face with your own insanity. ... People leave meditation practice because they are unable to bear the pain and the insult.”
― David Radin, A Temporary Affair: Talks on Awakening and Zen

“Whether you are CEO of a corporation or a garbage collector, whether you are an opera singer or a dishwasher, you are united because you can look inside and see yourself. You do not see people different from you, you start seeing that people are your true self appearing. If you cannot handle people right away, because many people are not living in that world, then try a poodle if you want to see what it looks like for the light to look back at you with open eyes.”
― David Radin, A Temporary Affair: Talks on Awakening and Zen

“Very simple, this Zen stuff: if you want to have a pleasant inner state, you should cultivate a pleasant inner state.”
― David Radin, A Temporary Affair: Talks on Awakening and Zen

“all things are being shone upon. In the same way the dreamer shines on the dream, you are being shined upon. This is where you find nirvana, this is God, this is the truth of being. The seat of existence is not inside the body. And when the body dies, there is nothing inside, no entity that passes away. We should know this.”
― David Radin, A Temporary Affair: Talks on Awakening and Zen

“The illumination of this world by consciousness is its existence. You and”
― David Radin, A Temporary Affair: Talks on Awakening and Zen

“all things are being shone upon. In the same way the dreamer shines on the dream, you are being shined upon. This is where you find nirvana, this is God, this is the truth of being.”
― David Radin, A Temporary Affair: Talks on Awakening and Zen