D I f f ere n t S h a D e S O f a u t h e n t IcI t y
V O l u m e 1 7
Inauthentic ones imagine themselves as authentic just because their knowledge which has not yet become experience goes round and round in crooked ways like the blind being led by the blind.
Even if you are a person with experience but without knowledge you are not dangerous. But the people who have knowledge and no experience, they are the most dangerous, poisonous, venomous snakes. It is very dangerous because it is like the blind led by the blind.
When you take the human body for the first time, this is what exactly you do with wealth. Only the mature souls don't get swayed by wealth. Wealth makes you live with the superficial space of life. Superficial questions, superficial answers, superficial living. Consciously carve your thinking and speaking keeping integrity as a chisel and authenticity as a hammer.
Person who thinks of this world alone, this much only is his life plans with a sharp very narrow vision of life. Person who think about so many births, a larger picture plans more properly about the life to create wealth out of completion.
Having wealth or not having wealth is neither right nor wrong. Why you are having, why you are not having decides whether you are right or wrong.
To make them understand, even if you are a person with experience without knowledge, you are not dangerous.
- What do the inauthentic ones do?
- Who is considered as very dangerous?
- Who is considered not dangerous?
- Who are like venomous snakes?
- What happens when a person thinks of only this world?
- What happens when a person thinks of many births?
- How we must create wealth? Which is the right way of being?
Not the fact that you have wealth but why you have wealth that matters.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
- 1. Pencil
- 2. Paper
- 3. A Picture Sheet
PROCEDURE:
Encourage each child to see the picture which you have given and ask them to draw the picture which being blind folded.
INFERENCE:
Emphasize to the children that: Inauthentic ones imagine themselves as authentic just because their knowledge which has not yet become experience goes round and round in crooked ways like the blind being led by the blind.
EXPLANATION:
Encourage the children to play blind fold catching game. Blind fold a child and the child has to catch the other children. Whoever is caught by this child becomes the catcher and this game goes on.
INFERENCE:
Emphasize to the children that: Inauthentic ones imagine themselves as authentic just because their knowledge which has not yet become experience goes round and round in crooked ways like the blind being led by the blind.
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The good is one thing and the pleasant is another. These two, having different ends, bind a man. It is all well with him who chooses the good. He who chooses the pleasant misses the true end.
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Authenticity matters always, not happiness.
When you choose authenticity, you achieve a level of happiness which is totally different. You can see that as oozing of bliss starts happening. Understand even goodness binds you to more and more good till you become best – highest. Pleasant binds you.
Both bring certain bondage. Pleasant is going to make you more and more bound, good is going to liberate you. It is all well with him who chooses the good. If you choose good means authenticity. He who chooses the pleasant misses the true end means the right goal of life is lost. Missing the true end is missing the right goal of life.
Choosing pleasant is not wrong, but not right. Man who chooses pleasant is neither right nor wrong, just left. Remember always choose authenticity even if it does not look pleasant. Medicine is not pleasant but it is authentic. Sugar, Pizza, Coca Cola is pleasant but not good for you.
To make them understand only
Authenticity matters, not pleasantness
- What happens when you choose good?
- What happens when you choose pleasant?
- What are the two different ends?
- Who misses the true end?
- What matters most?
- Who misses the right goal of life?
- Whether choosing pleasant is wrong? Pleasant or good, which is authentic?
Remember always choose authenticity even if it does not look pleasant.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
- 1. Pencil
- 2. Paper
- 3. Colour pencil
- 4. Crayons
- 5. Sketch Pens
PROCEDURE:
Encourage children to draw good and pleasant in a pictorial format. Ask them to tell what they drew.
INFERENCE:
He who chooses the pleasant misses the true end. Always choose authenticity even if it does not look pleasant.
EXPLANATION:
Make the children, sit in a circle. You will say words like medicine, pizza, computer and so on. The children have to tell which is pleasant which is good and give the reason for that.
INFERENCE:
He who chooses the pleasant misses the true end. Always choose authenticity even if it does not look pleasant.
Explanation:
Habits of the mind - There are many things in our life that is like a must, those are all habits of the mind. Complete with all the habits of the mind like:
- Questioning out of anger
- Anxiety
- Vested interest
- Power
- Depression/upset Anger
- Tiredness
- Boredom
- Even sleeping and eating
Explanation:
Anything you feel you 'must do' or 'must have' is a habit of the mind and needs completion. It should be completed immediately.
Like when you plant a plant , the soil is loose and it grows nicely but as time goes it becomes hard and strong , not letting the plant to grow healthily. But when the soil is loosened from time to time and the soil is not let to become hard the plant grows very healthily. Same way when it is a habit , it is like the strong mud where expansion does not happen in you. Doing completion with it is like ploughing the soil and making it loose so that you are in space of completion and nothing binds you and you are always complete.
Inference:
It is the habit of the mind to always choose pleasant. He who chooses the pleasant misses the true end. Always choose authenticity even if it does not look pleasant.