LESSON: 3🔗

Introduction Introduce to the children about entering into Death , the ultimate let-go.

Goals: To make the children understand about ultimate let-go

About the topic: The only way to break free from the vicious cycle of birth and death is by becoming enlightened, by entering into death, dropping the fear. As long as you are afraid of you will never look death in the eye. Unless or until you do that, you will never know how much you are blessed with abundance. Only when you know that you will lose something will you realize the value of that thing. Once when you face death without fear, you will understand the death is not the end of life but it is the climax. Death is just a matter of belief.

When you believe that death is terrifying, it becomes terrifying. We are not able to face death because we are not able to face the ever changing nature of life. We try to hold onto things, to people, to feelings, to situations and that is where the problem starts. We are terrified to letting go. Look at everything happening in life with the understanding that change is the nature of life, the very reason why life is so colorful and interesting. Death is a deep relaxation it is the ultimate 'letting go'. It is the dropping of the old and starting with the new.

When your being recognizes that is cannot achieve what it wants to through this body it decides to move on . This moving on, this passing over is called death. Death is a fresh start – When you die, all that happens is that you rejuvenate your body is your mind. You take a fresh set of memories, a new place, a different set of relatives, a new life.

We take up a new birth hoping to fulfill all our incomplete desires. Choices given to you by god to start all over again is death. Facing the fear demystifies death. Every moment you die, the next moment you are born. Death and birth are just cycles. If you die you will be born and if you are born you will die. When you understand this you start living your life, you start enjoying every breath that you take on planet earth. Death is the beginning of a new chapter of life.

Assessment: · Which is the only way to break the birth and death cycle? · When can we realize the abundance of nature? · When can we realize the value of something? · What happens when you belief death is terrifying? · Are we scared of letting go? · Which is a deep relaxation? · Is death a new beginning?

Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions ask each one's view about death.

Conclusion: Death the ultimate let go is your choice to start all over again.

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Materials needed: Pictures of deer eating grass, the lion eating deer, the hunter catching the lion. Glue, plain sheet cut into circular format.

Explanation: Encourage the children to stick the pictures in the order of life circle. Stick the pictures in the circular form of deer eating grass, the lion eating deer, the hunter eating lion. . Inference: Connect them to the fact our life is a circle between birth and death.

Explanation: Encourage the child to dip the foot in the water and keep the foot print on the outdoor floor and ask each child to observe `how it just disappear behind them. They can also observe the friends foot print disappearing in no time. Ask each child to explain what they understood from this.

Inference: Death happens everyday. Everything is unstable, everything is changeable.