ASSESSMENTS
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- When we categorize something as easy or difficult, what happens?
- What is the first thing we need to do to overcome our root pattern?
- Why do Enlightened Masters have to give meditation techniques?
- What does penance mean?
- Can thoughts exist by themselves?
✓ What Is the mind attached to?
✓ What does staying in the
present moment of
completion mean to us?
✓ What seems like a great danger for our ego?
✓ What do we need courage for?
✓ What is the technique that Kṛṣṇa suggests to Arjuna?
ART OF THE DAY
ART OF THE DAY:
DECORATE PERSON
MATERIALS NEEDED:
- Each child to get a piece of paper with the outline of a person on it
- A variety of bits of string, wool, button scraps of material, sequins and so on
- Glue
- Scissors
PROCEDURE Challenge the children to decorate their person as complicated as possible
INFERENCE Simple things cannot satisfy the ego. The mind finds it is easy to go beyond simple.
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY
ACTIVITY OF THE DAY:
IDENTIFY THE TRUTH
MATERIALS
- Paper
- Pens
PROCEDURE
Each child writes two things on their piece of paper without showing it to the other children. One of these things must be true and one must be false. For example, “I go to dance classes” is true and “I go to swimming classes” is false. Then the children take turns to read out their two statements, and the other children have to ask questions until they know which is true and which is false.
The questions can only be answered by yes or no, and cannot use any of the words of the statement. For example, if a child says they go to swimming classes, the questions cannot use “swimming” or “class”. Instead, they can ask about the pool, for example, is it big, is it small, or if the classes are every week.
Note: Help young children to do the writing and reading.
INFERENCE
Persevere with authenticity until we get to the Truth
WORKSHOP OF THE DAY
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WORKSHOP OF THE DAY VAARKYARTHA SAADHAS
Do Vaakyartha Sadhas on this topic:
Say there are two trees in a forest. Now, if one tree falls on the other, we can say that the tree on which the other tree has fallen feels the impact or the pain of a falling tree. Now, say the tree actually feels the entire forest as a part of its own self. Can we say that it will feel ‘another’ tree falling on it? When everything is a part of its own self, where is the idea of ‘other’? When the idea of ‘other’ disappears, then where is the pain?
CONCLUSION Our mind cannot believe we are bliss, and that meditation is our natural state, and that there is nothing to be achieved - so simple!
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