Remember the garden I showed you last year? And just fyi, the squash was divine.
Taking a look this early spring morning...I was bit shocked. I could not even find the beds from last year.

Yes, this is really it...the garden beds from last year turned into what looks like total wilderness...and it's growing really well too in this organically fertilized paradise!!!

Amazed, it made me see the work aspect of keeping a school garden in this still essentially wild or at least uncultivated land. If you don't tend to this garden regularly, repeatedly, diligently...it will all be overgrown...and you won't be harvesting anything at all, let alone divine tasting squash. Will this land show any signs of having been worked with? For a while, and, on a higher level, maybe forever. But not tended, it will soon be indistinguisable from it's surrounding, at least to the ordinary senses.

About 3 years ago I had a conversation with an amazing Being. We were wondering at the time if "awakened" can be forgotten? So you are awake...all the time for a long time...still that is no guarantee you won't fall asleep again...in this, the same lifetime even.

How are you cultivating your garden of Being? Occaisionally? During retreats once or twice a year? A day a week? In morning meditation?
How will your inner garden do with the amount of work and attention you are giving it? What are you putting your attention on? How are you using it?

Anyway, just some thoughts on an early morning, when I realized that this really is a school garden.

There is work to be done