LESSON: 8
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Introduction: Introduce the children about social service and intensity of Buddha.
Goals: To make the child understand about social service and intensity of Buddha.
Click of the topic:
About the topic: Be very clear if you want to really serve the society, the first thing you need is intensity in your purpose. Doing some social service should be like over flowing. You feel so full, you feel there is nothing more to be done, think I have so much of time, let me do some service to society, it is beautiful. Then it will lead you to happiness.
Some people don't feel relaxed within themselves, they can't sit quietly. There is so much of restlessness within them that they just want to do catharsis in some way. People with this type of attitude, even if they do some service they will be only putting their ego in front. They will only be torturing others. They will not be serving others. Be very clear, many times you start doing things just for the sake of service, not feeling. You don't feel what you are doing, you don't feel the need of the other person. Service should be overflowing out of your being. It should never be done for some other purpose.
Buddha the enlightened master whatever he decided to follow, he did with complete, unwavering intensity. Whatever you may seek, integrate you
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energies completely and go for it. You with then see the universe open up to you completely.
Assessment:
- What is the first thing you need if you want to really serve?
- How should social service be?
- Why do some people doesn't feel relaxed with themselves?
- Why some people have restlessness?
- What happens to egoistic people when the serve?
- What happens to other when egoistic people serve?
- Can service be done for some purpose?
- What is the quality in Buddha that made him attain enlightenment?
Evaluation:
Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions.
Conclusion:
Have intensity in your purpose to serve. Integrate your energies completely and be happy.
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Art of the Day:- Craft making a Quilt
Materials needed: Plain sheet, paint, glue, wool.
Explanation: Paint one sheet with black poster color and cut it out into 6 long stripes. Take another plain sheet and cut the sheet into 6 stripes. Now keep the black stripes in row and take the white stripes and keep above and below the black stripes by applying glue. Now take the wool and cut into short pieces and stick it on both ends.
Inference: You can do with combination of any two colors or with multi color patterns.
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Activity of the day: Clap thigh head game
Explanation: Explain to the children the game. All children must sit in a circle. First person claps, next person sitting to right taps on his thighs using both hands. The next person taps on his head using both hands. Next person claps and the series goes on till some one makes an error.
Inference: Interpret to the children when you are in now with intensity you can be more intelligent and productive.
Variation: To make the activity difficult each person does two of the series. First person does clap and thigh next one does head and clap.
Workshop5 - Quiz
Children can have quiz program on intensity questions.
QUESTIONS
1. Whether we lead or follow we
need to be
a. Intense
b. Interested
c. Involved
2. The restlessness when directed
towards the inner space is called
a. Interest
b. Involvement
c. Intensity
3. If your consciousness is
constantly moving towards the
outer world it is called
a. Intensity
b. restlessness
c. responsibility
4. If your consciousness is
constantly moving towards the
inner world it is called
a. Intensity
b. restlessness
c. responsibility
5. Which is an acceptable
statement
a. Intensity is an emotion
b. Intensity is not an emotion
c. Intensity is a partial emotion
6. Intensity is
a. Intensely being inside
b. Intensely being with
environment
c. Intensely being outside
7. You may be intense but you may
have lost the ability to flow,
because
a. You are driven by ego
b. you are not driven by ego
c. you are untouched by ego
8. When you are intense
a. you are not open to change
b. you are open to change
c. you are resisting to change
9. Relationship between becoming
and being
a. becoming is different from
being
b. both are same
c. are almost the same
10. Being is related to
a. your nature
b. society
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c. cosmos
11. Becoming is related to
a. mind
b. body
c. cosmos
12. You anger is related to
a. logic
b. society
c. illogical
13. When you live with intensity
you will be
a. connected
b. liberated
c. co-ordinated
14. Which is an acceptable
statement
a. Intensity does not depend on
the nature of the work or action
b. Intensity depends on the
nature of work or action
c. Intensity rarely depends on the
nature of work or action
15. Intensity must be your
a. Part of life
b. Very DNA
c. Ethics
16. When will you have a solution
for a problem
a. When you look at the root of
the problem
b. When you did not bother about
it
c. When you take it very lightly
17. The state of cosmic
consciousness is quickly
attainable to those who pursue
with
a. Seriousness and Intensity
b. Confidence and Sincerity
c. Sincerity and Intensity
18. When you have I
consciousness but no thought
you are in
a. waking stage
b. full awareness
c. deep sleep
19. Intensity has the power to
penetrate
a. Your deep sleep
b. your ideas
c. temperament
- Which is the acceptable statement a. Question is a word quest is a feeling b. quest is a word question is a feeling c. soft question and quest are words
- Whole life is a. Auspiciousness b. Process c. Suffering
22. Which is the way to experience
life
a. Being serious
b. Being intense
c. Being perfect
23. When the false sense of identity
disappears
a. ego appears
b. ego disappears
c. ego forms
24. Which is important
a. quantity of life
b. quality of life
c. purpose of life
25. What is initiation
a. Starting an activity
b. thinking to start an activity
c. the click that is happening
inside you
26. Which is acceptable statement
a. Intensity does not create
conflict inside or outside
b. intensity create conflict inside
or outside
c. Intensity sometimes create
conflict inside or outside
27. The side effect of intensity is
a. Love
b. emotion
c. greed
28. Truth gives you
a. Fame
b. Confidence
c. Identity
29. Which makes you to again and
again travel in same path
a. fulfilled desires
b. unfulfilled desires
c. partially fulfilled desires
30. If you don't know how to use