LESSON: 6🔗

Introduction: Introduce the child to contentment

Goals: To make the children understand about contentment.

Click: Learning contentment is a very plain and straight forward opening.

About the topic: There is no other way. Anything else leads to more and more complication. When you decide to be content, the carpet will seem good, but then you will think that one corner if I pull it this way, it can be made better.

Don't think because there is an army of enemies in your inner space. Your inner space is more intelligent. It will show only one enemy. The moment you accept one enemy you are done. By the time you fight that enemy your great friendly mind is ready with another, by the time you fight that, your great friendly mind will make you finish all thoughts about contentment.

Decide, now you are going to practice, no question of allowing one enemy. I am content from now. Out of that content feeling, I will work.

Contentment is like a huge snow capped mountain, glide in it, ski in it, the moment you hit a rock go back to the space of contentment.

Use your bio memory to get back to contentment. Your bio memory is very responsible, when you withdraw from your day to day activities, the bio memory feels threatened. It will say, I can't be like this and get back to contentment. Say I am going to move my body only if I am contented, your mind will find some reason, so many people are in worse situations etc. When you put your bio memory in a survival threat, it will support you. Do the self strike. Non co-operation movement with your life, let your bio memory bring you contentment, then it will become a system in you to create chaos in you, that is the only way to find a solution.

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Interpretation: ● What is contentment? ● What happens when you pose problems? ● What brings contentment for our self? ● What is best way to achieve contentment? ● What happens when we have contentment?

Activity of the day: Greedy monkey

Art of the Day: Design (or) pattern

Evaluation: Evaluate their knowledge on the topic by asking them questions

Conclusion: Use your bio memory, achieve contentment and be happy

This is from true life, an example of greed.

In Africa they use this trick to catch monkeys. They will hold up sweets, nuts, fruit and berries that the monkeys love and put it in a small enclosure in plain sight of the monkey and walk away. The monkey sees/ smells the food and goes for the treasure. He puts his hand in the small enclosure and greedily grabs at what is inside, but now his fist is too big to come out! He shrieks and pulls, but his fist cannot come through and he does not want to let go of the food. So the monkey is stuck. The hunter simply puts a bag over it and is able to catch the greedy monkey.

Activity: grabbing the small objects from a small jar or container.

Materials needed: small objects e.g. blocks or coins, jar with an opening large enough to put hand in, but not while holding an object.

Presentation: Gather the class and explain the activity. Talk about greed and what it does to us. Tell the true story above.

Now have each child reach in and grab a handful of the small objects in the jar. Explain how easy it is to simply drop the objects and pull out your hand.

Discuss the difference between needs and wants, and how either one can get us in trouble when greed comes in.

Conclusion: We should only do what we need to do, and fulfill our needs. Greed is not good and will cause problems. Needs bring us satisfaction when those are fulfilled, greed makes us always want more.

Materials needed: Paper, Pencil (or) Sketch (or) Pencil.

Procedure: Ask them to draw design patterns by seeing a model or they can draw their own designs or patterns.

Connect to the concept that none of the desires are our own desires.

We collect all the desires and make it as own desires.