How's the water?

at least 700 words must from the point of view of the animal, the rest about your experience of trying to adopt that point of viewand at least two unique, relevant images  and at least three of the required quotations:

WHAT EXACTLY SHOULD BE IN THE FOLDER?

[1] YOUR FINAL COPY. FORMAT: DOUBLE-SPACED, WITH A TITLE, PAGE NOS., and FOOTNOTES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGES, using the University of Chicago footnote method,with THE THREE REQUIRED QUOTATIONS [at least one QUOTATION FROM AT LEAST ONE ACTUAL, PRINTED BOOK NOT FOUND IN ANY WAY ON THE INTERNET, nor on our list of required books]. LAST PAGE SHOULD PROVIDE THE WORD COUNT (both with and without quotes).

THIS FINAL VERSION SHOULD BE PUT IN A FOLDER ON YOUR DESKTOP.

ALSO IN THIS FOLDER SHOULD BE

[2] A COPY OF YOUR ORIGINAL DRAFT, THE ONE YOU UPLOADED TO CANVAS;

[3] A SINGLE WORD DOCUMENT OF ALL CRITIQUES YOUR COLLEAGUES MADE OF YOUR PROJECT

[4] A SECOND DRAFT WITH ALL THE CHANGES YOU MADE IN RESPONSE TO ALL THE CRITIQUES WITH CHANGES NOW HIGHLIGHTED AND COLOR-CODED TO SHOW WHICH CHANGES WERE MADE IN RESPONSE TO WHICH REVIEWER;

THIS FOLDER SHOULD BE EMAILED TO ME AS AN ATTACHMENT. IF YOU HAVE TO, YOU CAN JUST EMAIL THE INDIVIDUAL ITEMS AS ATTACHMENTS.

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  INTEGRATE YOUR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS, THE LEFT SIDE OF THE BRAIN AND THE RIGHT, YOUR ANIMAL AND YOUR "HUMAN" SIDE........

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SOME OF OUR GOALS

To develop the sympathetic imagination, the basis of all ethics [see  below].

 To unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.

[2A2a] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience

 

[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"

MEDITATION AND GUIDED IMAGERY:

"A Zen-inspired blend of meditation, breathing exercises and focus techniques are in vogue in corporate America—championed by blue-chip employers like Google Inc. and General Mills Inc. as a simple but potent mind-sharpening tool." Gershman, Jacob. "

"Lawyers Go Zen, With Few Objections." WSJ. June 18, 2015.

Accessed September 20, 2015 by Starfish, E603A

Lovingkindness is a form of meditation designed to cultivate feelings of warmth and kindness to all people, including oneself, the researchers said. Practicing the technique may activate a soothing-caring regulation system that is probably deficient in chronic self-critics, they suggest [that] this practice may...... help in breaking down perfectionist tendencies. I know that at least for me, if I choose to allow myself forgiveness, encouragement, and grace, then I will be happier and more peaceful. The harshest of "self-critics" can use this meditation to learn how to better handle their self-judging nature. When we are less demanding of ourselves, we can in turn, be less demanding of others.

Lukits, Ann. "After Meditation, Self-Critical People Ease Up." WSJ. August 13, 2015. Accessed September 20, 2015 by Starfish, E603A.

Dass Guided Imagery

The Mystery

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DOES SIDDHARTHA LEARN COMPASSION? IF SO, WHICH MEANING?

Possible topics include "how to deal with suffering"

Musee des Beaux Arts

One representation of suffering is Breughel's "Musee des Beaux Arts" and the poems about by Auden and Williams' poems:https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/603A15/Auden.pdf Another set of topics has to with the ending and the symbolism of the river. Compare this ending to those for Farewell to Arms, such as ending #27: "Many things have happened. Things happen all the time. Everything blunts and the world keeps on. You get most of your life back like goods recovered from a fire. It all keeps on as long as your life keeps on and then it keeps on. It never stops. It only stops for you. Some of it stops while you are still alive. The rest goes on and you go on with it. On the other hand you have to stop a story. You stop it at the end of whatever it was you were writing about.""Do you prefer this kind of ending or that definitive death-is-the-end-of-everything ending usually associated with Hemingway?

 

 

10-18 Siddhartha

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BIRTHDAY

  

Sir Paul McCartney sings Happy Birthday to You! 

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Garfield's happy birthday dance 

http://youtu.be/dSCsNbFpzsE

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MONKEY'S BIRTHDAY [10-17] ;

 

Best and Worst" for first half of alphabet LEADER: KANGAROO

 REQUIRED READINGS:

764-768 Context: Buddhism
769 Herman Hesse GERMANY
770-815 /Siddhartha /GERMANY

 

 

REVIEW

 

• 819-823           Compassion in World History

• 824                       Jain Guidelines

• 825-828             Jainism and Environmental Ethics       

• 829-833                 Ahimsa

• 834                        Gandhi

• 835-837                Jain Ahimsa in Practice

• 838-842             Mahavira’s Environmental Ethics

• 843-845            Learning from Eastern  Thought      
  

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