LESSON: 6
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Introduction: To reiterate day before topic and introduce to the children about dropping cunningness and become spontaneous.
Goals: To make the children understand about dropping cunningness and become spontaneous.
About the topic: Cunningness is the opposite of intelligence. You can be either cunning or intelligent never both at the same time. Cunningness is also the opposite of vulnerability. When you are cunning, you cannot be vulnerable. When you are vulnerable, you are pure like a child. A child can be intelligent and innocent at the same time. Overtime his intelligence grows but the innocence invariably takes a turn to become cunningness societal conditioning causes the innocence in the intelligence to take the turn into cunningness. We hold a great responsibility in bringing up children without making them cunning. The problem is that we know only to divide and look . We never know to look as a whole. Cunningness is division. It is a constant calculation. In hinders free and innocent expression.
Innocence is lost when the mind is taught to divide. The danger with cunningness is that it grows roots in many directions and solidifies as the very nature of the individual. The person will not even know he is cunning. Unless you are tired of being cunning, you can't be helped. No technique can help you because your cunningness knows how to escape from every single technique. Cunningness is a pure hide and seek game that you play with yourself. When cunningness dissolves, authenticity and sincerity happens and you will be enlightened. Gossip is a pure expression of cunningness. When you drop
# INNOCENCE
cunningness, spontaneity flowers. Spontaneity is the opposite of calculation.
Intelligence plus innocence is spontaneity. Spontaneity is nothing but a flowering expression of your innocence. With cunningness you lose your innocence. Losing your innocence is like losing your entire life. You can afford to lose anything but not your innocence. When you are spontaneous you are without any conclusions. Intelligence is in the present moment. Conclusion is a foregone thing it is of the past. Existence never repeats patterns.
Interpretation: • What is cunningness? • What happens when we have cunningness? • When you are vulnerable? • Can a child be innocent? • Can a child be innocent and intelligent at the same time? • Is it good to lose innocence? • Conclusion is about past or future? • Which is the opposite of calculation? • What happens when innocence appears? • What happens when cunningness dissolves?
Evaluation: Evaluate how will they understood by the topic by asking multiple
INNOCENCE
Art of the day; Impression ON CHART ART
Materials needed: Chart paper, poster colors
Explanation: Encourage children to dip their feet in poster colors and make impression by walking on the chart paper. Now ask them to create a border in the chart in the form of any animal.
Inference: We can make anything out of anything when we are open. Life has no boundary, no limit. We may know many things but the knowing should not restrict us in any way. We must always be open to receive and be creative.
