INTRODUCTION🔗

If we are able to truly manage
our mind with the understanding
that it is our mind that connects
thoughts to form shafts of pain
and pleasure and if we stay
unclutched, we can stay in what
Buddha calls mindfulness. We
can stay in awareness and in the
present moment. This is the state
of Fulfillment.

How can I be motivated to do
something if I do not desire it? There
is no need for motivation. Do you
think that it is motivation that makes
you breathe or digest your food? It is
the intelligence of the energy that is
within and without us that makes it
possible for us to live and grow. We
live not because of us but inspite of
us. When we act without attachment,
there is no consequence to our
actions, there is no karma arising
from our actions.

Whether it is eating, drinking,
jumping, reading, talking, sleeping,
or meditating, in any activity that we
engage, our being yearns to
completely experience the activity
and be fully involved in it. Are we
fully conscious of every action we
engage in? Are we aware every
moment of our lives?

Anything that we do and
experience intensely and deeply
will always leave our system. It
will liberate us. Any experience
that we did not go through
completely, through which we
did not have complete
fulfillment, that did not get our
full energy, attention and
awareness, remains inside us as
karma.

To make the children
understand about the topic
of fulfillment.

When we act without
attachment, there is no
consequence to our actions.
When there is no
consequence to our actions
we remain in the state of
Fulfillment. This is what
Lord Krishna means when
He says ,

Karmanevarikarasthe Ma
Phaleshu Kadachana Do
Your work or Action.
without expectation of
results.

Encourage children to sit at
the table, keep enough beads
on the table and ask each
child to blow with the mouth.
Now each child must pick the
beads using their hand
without touching the other
beads while removing the
beads if the bead touches
other beads their turn is over.

INFERENCE
This activity needs lots of
focus, attention and patience.
When we are in the now with
clear understanding we can
be fulfilled.

In any given moment, the future
is predestined but conditionally.
It will be a certain future
according to all the totality of
events till that time, this is the
predestined future. But it is
conditional. There is an
important factor that can and
will change it, it is your
consciousness, your will.
Understand, destiny is not
something written in stone. It
very much depends on how you
choose to respond to every
situation life presents to you.
Your awareness will give you the
intelligence and the courage to
change the flow of events in your
life.

To make the children
understand about that the
present is the totality of all
past decisions.

Transform
your destiny
with
Awareness
and
Intelligence.

GOALS:
To make the child understand
about unfulfilled desire,
clearly about want and need.

PREPARATION:
Give each child the pencil or
pen and paper and ask them
to write a list of things they
wish to have. Repeat it again
after 10 days.

Give each child a pencil or pen
and paper and ask them to write
a list of things they wish to have
and ask them to write it in an
order. They can also draw
pictures of things if they wish to.
Collect the paper from the
children with their names and
date written clearly. Repeat the
same exercise again after 10 days
and ask them to write the same
list in other paper. Ask them to
compare the 1st day list with the
list of that of 10th day.

Let the children tell whether
they have written the same
things in the same order in
both the list or their list vary.
If their both the lists are same,
then what they wish to have
is a need. If their both the
lists are different the things
that they wished to have are
only wants which changes
from time to time and
situation to situation.

INTERPRETATION
Make the children
understand the
difference between
the want and the
need. Whether the
wishes are wants or
needs

No one else chooses for you in your
life. It is you who makes the choice.
Continuously, it is only your choice,
your decision. You may think that
somebody else decides your life. No!
It is only you who is deciding all the
time. Somebody criticizes or insults
you and you choose to get offended.
If somebody praises you, you choose
to get flattered. Because of your habit,
you choose this response
unconsciously. Does someone else
choose this for you? It is purely your
choice. Because it has become a habit,
you have forgotten that you are
choosing. It is you who choose how
to respond, what decisions to make.
But you try to fool yourself and others
into believing it is someone else who
is responsible, who is making you do
things their way.

To make the children
understand about the TPS
and gap in thought and
about the totality of our
choices and cause them to
take responsibility for their
life choices.

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.

PRESENTATION:
Gather the class and discuss how the
material relates to the topic. The
wooden chips or dominoes 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.

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.

This activity needs lots of
focus, attention and patience.
When we are in the now with
clear understanding we can
be fulfilled.