* Today's Quotation *

There I was, hunched over office desk,
Mind an unruffled pool.
A thunderbolt! My middle eye
Shot wide, revealing - my ordinary self.

~Layman Seiken, 11th Century Zen Poems of China and Japan, 1973, p. 14
Translated by Lucien Stryk, Takashi Ikemoto and Taigan Takayama