LESSON: 8
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Introduction: Review the day before topic and talk about being honest in your inner space and unfulfilled desires.
Goals: Make the children understand about being honest in your inner space and unfulfilled desire and talk about taking responsibility of our actions.
Click: Be honest in your inner space
About the topic: Accept honor only from the person who has experienced you. Live on the path of rightness conduct, using honest in your inner space. If your follow being honest in your inner space you will always be right and you will never fall in depression. We bother so much about following the law to have the protection from the outer world. Understand, follow being honest in heart you will never fall in to the difficulties and depressions that come from the inner world. The inner world problems are much stronger, more difficult and more dangerous than the outer world problems. When inner world problems happen, immediately you are shaken and you will invite outer world problems. When you protect righteous conduct, it will protect you. When you uphold the cosmic law and live by it, the cosmic law strengthens you. Be honest and true to your own understanding that is more than enough. Nothing happens to you from outside of you. You create whatever happens to you. Most of the time you are not aware and you are not conscious. So you are not able to see yourself doing it. The mind constantly tells you everybody else is responsible for your misery. It always goes on throwing responsibility on somebody else. Be very clear no body expect you in responsible for what you feel, what you do.
Nobody can make you suffer without your silent permission. When you stop blaming others, when you understand that you are responsible for everything you will become more and more aware of every action, every thought of yours.
Assessment:
- What is known as righteous conduct?
- What happens when you follow righteous?
- What happens when you don't follow conduct righteous?
- Who is responsible for one's misery?
- What happens when we have awareness? What happens when we take responsibility for our actions and thoughts? When we get inner world problems?
Evaluation: Evaluate their language skills by asking them to talk about being honest to inner space.
Conclusion: Be responsible for your every thought and action, stop blaming others.
Unfulfillment
Art of the Day: Draw Desire – Guilt cycle
Materials Needed: Pen, Paper, Sketch pen or Pencil
Explanation: Encourage each child to draw the desire – guilt cycle. How your desires results in guilt. They can draw in the pictorial form what they mean by the desire – guilt cycle.
Inference: Our desire which is not mostly our own desires will invariably lead to guilt. We keep on adding our desires list by seeing the society and then feel guilty of desiring them. When we have lots of borrowed desires we can never be fulfilled.
Activity of the Day:- Judge a scene or a story
Explanation: Any story cards (or) picture card depicting any scene. Show to the children story cards or picture cards depicting any scene. Any each child to judge the scene and talk about it. If the story card is shown ask them to judge the outcome and moral of the story.
Inference: Each child will judge the same story in different ways. Every body's views are different. Each one thinks in a different way. Each one has their own creativity, nobody is similar and everybody is unique. When we are able to accept others are they are we can be in bliss.
Workshop :-4 - Meaning making machine
Explanation: Give each child to visualize whatever they visualize for example they think I am hungry now ask them to give meaning to that thought and ask them to do this for few minutes. Then you can tell how they are connecting their thoughts.
Inference: Our thoughts are random and unconnected we usually give meaning to all our thoughts. Because we give meaning we connect our thoughts. Unfulfillment can be avoided when we stop giving