LESSON: 2
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Introduction: Review yesterday's topic
Goals: To understand what are true desires - Needs.
Click: True desires carry the energy for their fulfilment
About the Topic: Things from outer world might not be the right desires to run behind. How we can recognize our innate desires?
If you understand which desire is innate and which is borrowed, happiness happens automatically. The desires that carry the energy for the fulfillment are the true desires. These desires are always selfless desires. They benefit both individual and humanity. Only such desires carry the energy of the universe for fulfillment.
When you have some desire, you immediately want to come out of it - because deep fulfillment is our very nature and desire causes imbalance in that fulfillment.
Whenever we try to recollect our memories of desires whatever is left in our memories, those desires glow like gold. These are the ones that carry the energy for their fulfillment. These desires are called true desires.
When our desires are our own true desires, when they reflect our real needs, when they express themselves in our inner energy, we don't feel any desperation about trying to achieve them. The realization comes, that as an of natural course of events, these desires will be fulfilled. We are not driven and we are not troubled. We accept that this will happen.
[Figure: DESIRE]
Assessment:
- How can we recognize our true desires?
- Do we fell like we need energy for fulfill the true desires?
- Are the true desires coming from outer world?
- What are some true desires? Give examples.
Activity of the day: Rock, Sand and Water
Art of the Day: play dough modelling of their needs and wants
Evaluation: Question (open ended) and discussion: How we can recognize true desires? Talk about how we need and want things, but only true desires can fulfill us.
Conclusion: Instead of chasing outer objects and things that we 'want' trying to make ourselves happy. We need to focus on the things that matter, the true desires which can fulfill us.
Activity - Rock water and sand
This is a wonderful illustration that represents that every moment is wisdom, that we can learn something new every day and in different ways through opening the mind.
Material required: Rocks or stones, Sand transparent container, Water.
Presentation: 1.Gather the class together and discuss the activity and topic. Explain how every second we can learn things and observe if we are in the present and now. Explain that humans only use 8 to 13% of our brains and this is an illustration that will help us understand.
- Take the transparent container and ask the class if “ it full? Or empty?”.
- Take the rocks and stones and fill it to the top and ask again. “Is it full?”
- Next take the sand and pour it in letting it filter through the stones and all the way into the container ask again” Is it full?”.
- Next take the water and shake the container letting it all filter down and the water filling up all the empty spaces Ask again “Is it full?”.
- The point of this illustration is that we are constantly learning, always getting inputs. Our brains are always working and finding new things, we just have to be open to it. One more interpretation of this activity is that our wants and wishes keep on changing and it is very difficult to satisfy all our wants. Our mind always wants more and more, when we understand this we can easily differentiate our true needs from borrowed desires.
Variation: You can have the kids draw an illustration of the concept on paper and make a collage. Or if those materials are not available or if you want to illustrate the concept quickly or reiterate it, you can draw the materials and do the activity with pictures drawn illustrating the activity and labeling what they represent on a whiteboard or on paper.
Art of the Day - Play dough modelling of their needs and wants
Materials needed: Play dough
Procedure: Explain to the children to make models of the wants and needs with the play dough. Give each child enough play dough materials. Encourage each child to make models of their different needs and wants.