LESSON: 3
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Introduction: Introduce the children about the TPS and about the gap in between the thoughts.
Goals: To make the children understand about the TPS and gap in thought and about the totality of our choices.
Click: Everything in life is a choice you make
About the topic: If you don't know your past completely you will repeat the same things in the future. If your thoughts per second (TPS) can come down and you know your past as it happened, you won't repeat the same past in the future. All meditation techniques are ways to bring down your TPS so that you can penetrate the time shaft. The gap between two thoughts is one kshana. The thoughts of every person and the rate at which they come in a person are dependent on that person. Kshana varies from person to person. If a person is restless and gets too many thoughts in a span of one second, his kshana is shorter because the gap between two thought is less. Our action is nothing but the totality of the conscious choices that we continuously make. Whether you want or not, directly or indirectly, you are choosing everything, someone else does not choose. If somebody criticizes you it is your choice to get offended. If somebody praises you, you choose to get flattered. It is you who choose. When someone criticizes you, you can choose not to get offended and you can choose to remain calm and relaxed. All your continuous choices every minutes put together decide your life. Everything in life is a choice your make. While eating we won't concentrate on eating we will think about going for vocation or some other things.If you eat with
awareness automatically you will know the right type and amount of food.
SIT FOR ONE HOUR, ANALYSE THE WRONG KNOWLEDGE, HOW MANY DECISIONS, WRONG DECISIONS YOU MADE JUST BECAUSE OF YOUR PAST CONDITIONINGS. ABOUT PEOPLE, ABOUT SITUATIONS, ABOUT RACES, ABOUT COUNTRIES, ABOUT THINGS. Go back to your house, sit for one hour, analyse the wrong knowledge, how many decisions, wrong decisions you made just because of your past conditionings. About people, about situations, about races, about countries, about different things and then you understood you made a wrong decision, because of wrong knowledge and realized, corrected yourself. Just write ten incidents. You will internalize this truth. Next time when you take any wrong decision you will remember that you are doing it out of wrong knowledge. You will have remembrance, patience, intelligence to come back to right knowledge.
Assessment: • What is TPS? • When is TPS zero? • What is kshana? • Does kshana is equal for all the people? How will be the kshana when a person is restless? How will be the kshana when a person is calm? What is our action consists of? Who makes a choice in your life?
Art of the Day: Touch and feel art
Materials Needed: Pen (or) Pencil, Paper (or) Sketch, Block or any figure or statue
Explanation: Encourage children to touch the given block or figure or statue with eyes closed and draw the image with eyes open. Draw the picture on the paper with pencil or sketch or pen.
Inference: When we are in present, in now we can exactly replicate the statue in pictorial form. When we are in now we will be fulfilled in whatever we do.
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Activity of the day- Wooden Chips:
This illustrates how we relate things, how thoughts affect one another causing a ripple effect.
Activity: Arranging wooden chips and seeing the domino effect of all of them falling down when one of the chip is pushed.
Material required: Wooden chips or dominos.
Presentation: Gather the class and discuss how the material relates to the topic. The wooden chips or dominos are like thoughts, when we stack them up they are all related like the thoughts in our minds. Arrange the chips close together and discuss how when one thought is there, we should only think of that one thought, let it go and then go on to the next thought. Give each child a stack to arrange, and let them trigger the first one and watch them all fall.
Variation: our ego is affected by every emotion, anger, sadness, over excitement, everything. If we are in bliss we will be in peace and joy. A variation of this activity can be that when ego comes in, each thing is like a trigger that goes on and pushes other chips causing them all to fall.
Conclusion: If we can keep our minds free of thoughts, that would be the best, as having no thoughts gives the ability to use our brain to the maximum which can be awakened.
