LESSON: 3🔗

Introduction: Review the day before topic and introduce to them "silence is the space of unlearning & grasping with innocence.

Goals: To make the children understand about silence is the space of unlearning & learning.

About the Topic: In silence there is innocence. In words there is intellect. Intellect can never receive the truth, only innocence can just be with innocence that is enough. Silence bridges the gap that words create. Silence is the space of transformation into fresh learning. In silence you are open and in those moments you are innocent. The inner silence is the treasure zone. In silence there is no geed or fear. Innocence is a delicate fragrance while knowledge is a strong filter. That is the difference. The fragrance of innocence draws the whole world to you. The filter of knowledge prevents many things from coming to you .we are in a great hurry all the time, because there is too much knowledge to gather When you are with innocence you simply enjoy the moment.

Innocence grasps the moment while knowledge misses it. Knowledge knows only purpose while innocence knows the beauty of purposelessness. Children lose their innocence to the conditioning that they receive in the name of “how to be clever”. Knowledge is a tool . It doesn't directly lead to intelligence. It is just a tool . As long as we use it as a powerful tool where needed, it is good. on the other hand, innocence leads directly to pure intelligence. Innocence grasps dimensions that cleverness misses.

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# INNOCENCE

Innocence may miss the facts but it catches the truths, when cleverness combines with innocence, it becomes a rare combination of intelligence. Knowledge that is not yet experience is not your own. It is borrowed. Knowing is different from knowledge. Knowing is innocence. It is an understanding that has become your own experience. Work so that everything becomes a deep experience in you. You will then be a simple person. Simplicity is weightless. It will never weigh you down and hinder further learning. It is just aid in the flowering of innocence, that's all. What innocence grasps one may not ever be able to express, because it is an understanding beyond words.

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Objectives:

• What is intellect?

• What is innocence?

• What is there is silence -innocence or intellect.

• What bridges the gap that words create.

• What is the difference between innocence & intelligence.

• What happens when you are in innocence.

• Which knows the purpose and which knows the beauty of purposelessness?

• Whether knowing is different from knowledge.

Evaluation:

Evaluate the knowledge of the topic by asking them multiple questions.

INNOCENCE

Art of the day; Wax Painting

Materials needed: Uncolored art sheet, various color crayons, poster colors (different), brush

Explanation: Ask the children to first color the picture with crayon and then paint on it with poster colors, ask them to observe how the painting looks like. Ask them whether the paint is mixing with poster color or standing alone.

Inference: Innocence grasps dimensions that cleverness misses. Innocence may miss facts but it catches the truth.

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INNOCENCE

Activity of the day;- Hide and seek game.

Explanation: In this game of hide and seek, one child counts to a certain numbers while all the other children hide. As the end of the count, the child who counts says, “Ready or not”, here I come and seeks out the hiders.

Inference: Cunningness is a pure hide and seek game, you play with yourself. Societal conditioning causes the innocence in the intelligence to take the turn in to cunningness.

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INNOCENCE

LESSON: 4

Introduction: Introduce to the children about being vulnerable and review the yesterday topic.

Goals: To make the children understand about the concept of being vulnerable and surrendering with trust.

About the topic: When you are innocent, you are vulnerable to everything that existence wants to teach you. If you are closed, you create a wall around you. Vulnerability is breaking the wall and inviting the cool breeze to touch your very being every time it blows .vulnerability is not weakness. The wall when broken will not cause you danger. The entire cosmos comes to you when you are vulnerable. Your reality is your vulnerability and you are so afraid of opening it to the cosmos.

When you are vulnerable, you experience everything at the being level. Life happens with vulnerability .With the head you cannot be vulnerable. With vulnerability you move towards the truth in a different path, in a joyful path because every moment you are receiving directly from existence. Existence is able to give you because you are vulnerable and ready to receive it. When you become vulnerable, you are saying 'yes' to existence. When you say yes to existence your energy starts moving in a new direction. When you started saying yes, you start expressing love, which is the language of the heart. When you are vulnerable you have great trust on the other. When you are vulnerable you are open in your entire response system.

Interpretation: • When you are vulnerable? • What is being vulnerable? • Is it ok to the vulnerable? • What happens when you say yes? • How is saying yes connected to vulnerability? • Is vulnerability a weakness? • Vulnerability is listening to heart or head?

Evaluation: Ask them to explain the situations when they have been vulnerable.

Conclusion: To just express with vulnerability is to be free like a bird, not worried about any past or future, to just be.

Art of the day; Tracing With Stencils

Materials needed: Plain sheets, pencil or crayons or sketch pen, stencils (may be alphabets or numbers or various animals or any other shapes).

Explanation: Provide plain papers to the children and give them a stencil or a block or a shape and ask them to place it on the paper and ask them to hold it firmly with other hand and trace the stencil or block or shape, inside or outside.

Inference: When you ask out of innocence you are completely ready to receive the answer, how with stencil we can replicate the design similarly with innocence we can do wonders.

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INNOCENCE

Activity of the day; Potato gathering activity

Explanation: Draw two circles or keep two hoops away from each other. Place more balls in one circle and keep the other circle empty. Each child has to gather the ball fast from one circle to another carrying only one ball at a time within the given time limit. Whoever gathered the maximum number of balls will be the winner.

Inference: Being innocent is like functioning from your very consciousness. It is thoughtless awareness. Thoughtless awareness is innocence.

INNOCENCE

Workshop 2 : Riddle Work Shop

Explanation: Ask the children to answer few common riddles. Like a fell from 12 storey building but did not get hurt why – the answer is the baby fell down from the ground floor. Ask each child to come with some more riddles of their own. Ask them some more very difficult riddles, when they answer the riddles, ask them how they answered it correctly where they got the click.

Inference: Click is the right understanding when we apply the right understanding in the right place, we can solve very difficult, complex problems in our life. We cannot open the door with other door we can only open the door with a key. The key is the right understanding.