INFERENCE🔗

Death is a primal fear, that of the unknown. The fear of leaving the body and mind has existed through the ages. We are scared of death because instinctively we resist change and death is an abrupt change.

MATERIALS NEEDED

• ❑ Plain sheet

• ❑ Sketch pen or pencil
• ❑ Poster colors.

PROCEDURE

Encourage each child to draw what was their latest or repeatedly recurring dream. Ask them to depict that dream in a pictorial form and paint it nicely. Give turn for each child to explain what they have drawn.

Life is nothing but day dreaming and dream is nothing but night life. Night life is dream and day dream is life.

Once a woman came with her dead son to Buddha. She was sad with grief of the death of her only son.

Woman: Master, please give me some medicine that will get my boy back to life.

Buddha: Give me a handful of mustard seed. The women got up immediately.

Buddha: The mustard seed must be from a house where no one has lost a dear one- child, husband, parent, friend.

The women went from house to house. Out of pity for the desperately crying woman, people gave her mustard seeds from their house. But she asked whether they had lost a dear one, they had some one or the other who had died in the house.

She went from house to house till sunset but found no house where a death had not happened. Slowly the truth started drawing on her - death is inevitable.

She buried her son's body and returned to Buddha. She fell at the feet of Buddha and asked him, Buddha! Master, Please teach me the truth.

What is death: What exists beyond death?

She became Buddha's disciple and followed Buddha for the rest of her life.