poets tell us where our home is.

April 9, 2012 in poetry

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)

Where are you when you are where you actually live?

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About Patti Digh

Patti Digh is an author, speaker, and educator who builds learning communities and gets to the heart of difficult topics. Her work over the last three decades has focused on diversity, inclusion, social justice, and living and working mindfully. She has developed diversity strategies and educational programming for major nonprofit and corporate organizations and has been a featured speaker at many national and international conferences.