Art of the Day: Design (or) pattern
Materials needed: Paper, Pencil (or) Sketch (or) Pencil.
Procedure:
Ask them to draw design patterns by seeing a model or they can draw their own designs or patterns.
Connect to the concept that none of the desires are our own desires.
We collect all the desires and make it as own desires.
Introduction: Introduce to the children about MY WORLD – THE WORLD.
Goals: To make the children understand about the difference and meaning of MY WORLD AND THE WORLD.
Click of the topic: MY WORLD and THE WORLD must always be in tune for a peaceful living.
About the topic:
The world is binary, arithmetic, logical, scientific and universal. My world is emotional, based on faith, beliefs, experiences of individual perceptions, realizations of individual identities, expression in its fullest form. My world is totally different from 'The World'. When my world is completely in tune with 'the world', you will not have any problem, you will be at peace.
The world is societal. People who are always going after The world, are caught in agitation, anger, stress and people who are completely caught in my world can sometimes miss 'the world'.
Mostly ordinarily people are caught between "my world" and "the world" and start preferring between these two.
When you start preferring 'the world' your whole life ends in depression, you are drained in 'the world'. When you start preferring 'my world' sometimes you can loose your balance and get into some fantasies. "My world" should expand and grow and should completely be in tune with 'the world'.
For example, sometime we think 'the world' is only the right world. When we are travelling in vehicles, the plants and trees appears to be moving but they are not really moving. The "desire" is like the trees which pretends to be moving but actually never belongs to us, creating a fantasy in "my world".
The best way of enlightened living is 'my world' must be in tune with 'the world'.
Assessment:
- What does 'my world' refer to?
- What does "the world" refer to?
- What happens when we start preferring 'the world'?
- What happens when we start preferring 'my world'?
- Why do trees outside the moving car looks like they are moving?
- What do the trees signify?
- Which is the way for happy living?
Activity of the Day: Write the lists of 'My world and the world' and compare.
Art of the Day: Changing perceptive drawing
Evaluation: Evaluate how well they understood the topic by asking multiple questions.
Conclusion: Always work on making the 'my world in tune with the world'.
Activity - 'My world and the world' and compare.
Materials Needed: Paper, Pen (or) Pencil
Explanation:
Give each child a paper and ask each child to write the lists of 'my world' and 'the world'. 'my world' is the world which comprises of your basic needs and 'the world' is which comprises of society, societal norms.
Interpretation:
Make the child understand about their basic needs and understand about 'my world' and 'the world'.
Activity - 'My world and the world' and compare.
Materials Needed: Paper, Pen (or) Pencil
Explanation:
Give each child a paper and ask each child to write the lists of 'my world' and 'the world'. 'my world' is the world which comprises of your basic needs and 'the world' is which comprises of society, societal norms.
Interpretation:
Make the child understand about their basic needs and understand about 'my world' and 'the world'.
Introduction: Introduce to the children - there is no you in you.
Goals: To make the children understand that we are the mixture of desires and identities of others.
Click of the topic:
Borrowing sticks to form our identity.
About the topic:
First thing we have to understand is that there is no 'you' in 'you'. Whatever you understand or experience or feel as you in you is just some body's reflection in you. If it stays there for a long time you believe it is you and you are possessed by that identity. We pick some identity from mom, some desires from being mom, some desires from being dad and some from friends and society. None of these desires are desires of our own. Whatever we have more, we create our identity out of it. We create a broom of our identity by collecting broom sticks of desires and identity from others. We become imaginary images of others. We tie our broom with a silk thread. Silk thread is our decision making capacity. We make choices based on our desire which leads to suffering. Any choice will only lead to suffering. When we accept the happening the desire, choice and suffering all disappears.
Assessment:
- What do we have to understand by you?
- Do we have some body's reflection on us?
- What are the identities / desire you picked from your mom?
- What are the identities / desire you picked from your dad?
- What are the identities / desire you picked from your friends?
- What are the identities / desire you picked from your relatives?
- How do we lose the identity?
- Why choosing is suffering?
Activity of the Day: Making a broom of ourselves with the ice cream sticks.
Art of the Day: Draw pictures of wants and needs
Evaluation: Ask multiple questions about the topic so that they can talk about their desires.
Conclusion: Conclude the topic by reviewing the main details.