Doing homework
faithfully is meant
to be a discipline.
Think of it as a spiritual discipline -- done in large mind-and-heart
for the sake of all beings!
The questions also form the basis for
classroom discussion.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.
the Sufi poet, Rumi
See The Essential Rumi, translations by Coleman Barks
with
John Moyne, A.J. Arberry, Reynold Nicholson
(San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995), p. 36
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