Why Bodhidharma Went to Howard Johnson's

Why Bodhidharma Went to Howard Johnson's


"Where is your home," the interviewer asked him.

Here.

"No, no," the interviewer said, thinking it a problem of translation,
"when you are where you actually live."

Now it was his turn to think, perhaps the translation?

~ Jane Hirshfield ~

(The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry)