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1-30 ANIMALS IN WORLD RELIGIONS + Project One Instructions
TODAY'S GOALS:
[2A2b] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination,which is essential to morality and ethics. Trying to imagine what it was like to be someone else is a form of experiential learning, the kind that can stick with you later. All of this depends on your willingness to be an actor, to willingly suspend your disbelief long enough to play the part. That willingness also enables you to FREE yourself from the world views that you may have inherited without conscious thought or decision on your part.* Trying out the worldviews of other cultures is the humanities equivalent of a scientific experiment. When you adopt, however briefly, another Weltanshauung, and see and feel as a member of that culture would, you test out whether any part of that philosophy of life is one you want to adopt and/or, by contrast, what part of the worldivew you inherited you may consciously want to embrace as an adult.
*William Blake called them your "mind-forged manacles"
[2A2c] To practice tolerance for diversity, Global Cultures
INDEPENDENT INQUIRY SPECIFIC GOALS
[2I1] “to know thyself.” [2I2] to think for your self, decreasing reliance on secondary sources, practicing what is known as active, experiential or discovery learning (as in science experiments, the Moore method in math, and Amherst College’s Baird Freshman English course in the humanities);
[3C1] To unify the self, our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.
ACTIVITIES: Ponder Einstein statement
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security." Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Source: Mathematical Circles
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Dass Guided Imagery focused on sending light and love
"Best and Worst" for FIRST half of alphabet,
Quiz: Must get two questions right or -10 without a valid blog this week
Discussion: Possible Topics: Compassion in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism
TODAY'S REQUIRED READING:
- COMPASSION overview……………………………………………………….1055-1059
- Jainism’s Eight Principles..................................................................1060
- Overview, from Jainism and Ecology ……………………………..1061-1064
- Ahimsa……………………………………………………………………………1065-1069
- Gandhi ………………………………………………………………………………......1070
- Ahimsa in Practice ……………………………………………………………1071-1073
- “Environmental and Ecological Teachings of Mahavira” ………….....1074-1078
- Hinduism and the Surabhi cow….. ……………………………………………1078-1081
- NeoConfucian Manifesto………………………………………….1082-1084
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3QrhdfLCO8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7IVjCQ26pE
EAGLE FLIGHTS, donated by Veronica
RECOMMENDED READING: more on Compassion in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism
REVIEW, CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: you and compassion
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- 1-29 Wednesday Twelfth class day; this is the date the official enrollment count is taken.
- Last day an undergraduate student may add a class except for rare and extenuating circumstances. Payment for added classes (add bill) due by 5:00 pm.Last day to drop a class for a possible refund. (SeeGeneral Information, chapter 4, for details.)
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