LESSON: 4
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Introduction: Introduce to the children the concept of living intensely.
Goals: To make the child understand about living intensely Click of the topic:
About the topic: You cannot feel fulfilled by offering sense pleasures to the senses. Living intensely does not mean fulfilling your senses. Pairing pleasures into your senses or living as you wanted. Be intense, eat intensely. When you are eating, only eat. When you are sleeping, just sleep. When you are drinking, only drink. When you are making merry, just be merry. When you live intensely, automatically you will be liberated. If you really want to experience life, if you really want to know the ultimate mystery of existence, then the way into it is intensity. Intense in whatever you do. Let you dissolve in it. Do not be partial, be integrated in yourself. If you dance, dance so totally that you become the dance. There will be no dancer remaining then, only the dancer remains. When the ego dissolves, the false sense of identity disappears and you can see the flow of the intelligent and total energy of existence through you. We can achieve bliss when we have intensity in our action, intensity in every moment. I ntensity decides age. What matters is not the quantity of life, but the quality, the intensity of living.
[Figure: Intensity]
INTENSITY
Assessment:
- What does living intensely means?
- Living intensely does not mean what?
- What happens when you live intensely?
- Can we be intense in what we do?
- What happens when we are partial in doing activities?
- What happens when the ego dissolves?
- When we achieve bliss?
- Which is important in life quantity or quality?
Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions related to the topic.
Conclusion: Live intensely in the moment and taste the real life. Else you are not living.
Art of the Day: Chalk scribbling
Materials needed: Chalk piece, plain sheet
Explanation: Encourage each child to hold the chalk piece and scribble on the paper. Ask them to do the scribbling till the chalk piece is completely over.
Inference: Intensity is doing the job completely with awareness.
[Figure: Piano intensity header]
Activity of the day:
Copy writing a page looking at it upside down. To make the children unclutch and be in the moment. To make them be illogical. To make them right brain oriented.
Preparation: Give each child plain sheet, pencil and a picture with few paragraphs, sentences written on it.
Presentation: Encourage each child to hold the page upside down and copy right the contents give in it by looking at it upside down.
Inference: This activity needs lots of concentration and awareness. This writing is a right brain activity.
Workshop:2 Debate
Children can a debate on the topic of Becoming versus Being
[Figure: Piano keys]