Vaues of Love Curriculum - I believe in Good

8/14/2019 Vaues of Love Curriculum - I believe in Good

1/18


2/18


3/18

Listen to this story and learn from the positive attitude of Two eyes.

Before you tell this tale, prepare three masks: one with one eye, another with two eyes

and a third with three eyes. Use them whenever you act either character.

One eye, Two eyes and Three eyes.Once upon a time there was a young girl who lost her mother when she was young.

Her father was a businessman and often had to travel far. He married a widow withtwo children, so that his daughter could have a family again.

The step-mother initially loved her new husbands daughter. But as she stayed withher for more and more time, she came to realize that her own daughters were far less

beautiful than her husbands child. The main reason was that though she had two eyes,one of her daughters had only one eye, while the other had three eyes.Out of spite, the step mother made two-eyes do all the chores at home while her own

children would spend the day idling around.

Not only that, often Two-eyes would not get enough food to eat, wore rags for clothesand had to sleep on the stone floor. As father was out most of the time, this went on

for a long time.

As part of her duties, Two eyes had to take a goatgrazing. She would often talk to the goat about all her troubles as she had no friend to share her pains with. One

day the goat talked back and said, Two-eyes, I will helpyou. Whenever you are hungry, say:

Little goat, little goat bleat.

Give me something nice to eat.

A table with rice and tofu and vegetables will appear. When you have had your fill,say,

Little goat, little goat I say,

Take the table away.

It happened as the goat had told, and Two-eyes became a happy child again, healthy,even a bit plump and often would sing.


4/18

This made her step mother suspicious. She thought that Two-eyes happiness musthave something to do with the goat. So she sent One-eye to check on her. One eye

fell asleep though and didnt see what happened when Two-eyes took the goat for

grazing. The next day, step mother told Three-eyes tofollow Two-eyes and the goat. She too could not standthe heat and fell asleep. But one of her eyes didnt close,and she saw how the goat would conjure a table with

delicious food for Two-eyes.

She told her mother upon their return and that night, thestep mother killed the goat.

Two eyes cried for three nights. Then she had a dream. The goat appeared and said,Ask your step-mother for my horns and plant them in the garden. The stepmother,

who could not give anything of value to Two-eyes, gave her the horns thinking theywere useless.

Two eyes planted them in the garden and went to sleep.

The next day there was a beautiful apple tree in the front yard. And it was full of golden apples. Two-eyes, who was still very kind to others, told her step-mom, who

sent her own daughters to pick the apples. They couldnt pull any of the apples fromthe tree. But when Two-eyes picked an apple it yielded the apple. Every day Two-eyeswould pick one apple and give it to her step mom, who in return never gave her

anything back. Instead she would dress her own daughters in the best clothes, getspecial food and continue to abuse Two-eyes.

Two-eyes suffered a lot. Father had not come back for a long time and she was in real

pain. But then one day a prince passed by on a horse. When he saw the apple tree with

the golden apples, he asked for one. Two eyes, afraid to be seen in broken rags anddirty from the hard work she had to do every day, hid her herself. One-eye, who was

eager to show herself to the prince, offered to pick one of the apples. So did Threeeyes, but they of course failed and finally they had to summon Two-eyes,

who offered the apple to the prince.

He was very grateful and asked if he could do her a favor. Two eyes didnthave to think long. Please, take me away. She said.

The prince who had seen through the dirt on her face and the broken rags,


5/18


6/18

I believe in goodI really doI believe in all the goodIn me and the people around me too.

There are stories, they are really sadOf monsters and witchesAnd other things so bad.

But I believe in good .

And one day, I know it will come to passThat these bad things will not last

I believe in goodI really do


7/18

Bad things can also make us betterSometimes we can not understand why bad things happen to good people. Fate seems

so cruel. Still there is a sense of benevolence in everything that happens to us, as all

the pain is a step towards finding peace. Play this game and learn the story of One-eye, Two-eyes and Three-eyes and how Two-eyes never stopped believing in good:

Draw a board game on the whiteboard. Mark some shares as problem squares. Call

the last one Peace. In the squares of the board game write or draw some of the problems Two-eyes had to face.

Mother dies.Her step mother doesnt like her.

Her step sisters dont like her.She has to work very hard.She is always hungry.

She has to sleep on the kitchen floor.A goat helps her.

But her step mum killed it.She got a dream and planted a tree that gave her golden apples.

Her mother took all the golden apples.She didnt give her anything in return.

A prince came by and saved her.Her sisters became very poor.They came begging to her palace.

She forgave them and cared for them.They lived in peace.

Play with a dice with one and twos. Who is the first one to find peace?

You can make a similar game for many other fairytales(Cinderella/ Hansel and Gretel, Brother and Sister, etc.)

Lord Shiva and the PotterSometimes we cant see the beauty of the great plan

because of our own foolishness. And when we want to

make changes in Gods plan, we sometimes make itworse! This story is from long before the plastic juice

bottles and milk cartons. It is from a time that people had potters.


8/18

One such potter in India, would always pray to his god, Lord Shiva, before startingany new pot. And after many years of this devotion and love for God, indeed Lord

Shiva himself appeared and said, I am deeply touched by your love. I will grant you

any wish you want.The potter was a simple man. He didnt ask for wealth, power or fame. He said, Lord,I make beautiful pots, but sooner or later they break. That is very painful for me. Iwould like to make pots that are unbreakable, pots that we can always admire and

look at.

The potter was afraid to look up to the Lord, but heard a soft, As you wish. And thenfelt the Great One had disappeared.

At once he tried out if the wish had come true and started a new pot. When it wasready and dry, he threw it on the ground, and yes, it was unbreakable indeed! The

potter got a lot of business. Many people came to buy his pots. Other potters couldntsell any of their pots and lost their income. The Potter though was proud and got

wealthy very fast.

But then less and less people started coming to his shop too. In fact if he could sellone pot a day, he was lucky. People didnt need pots anymore, as they were all

unbreakable. He too started to regret his decision to ask for unbreakable pots.Breaking things seemed sad to him, but in the Great Plan, it was right!

For many nights, he cried to Lord Shiva, Please grant me one more wish. Please letmy pots be unbreakable again. The Lord is forgiving and kind to all. And when we

realize our foolishness, even when we blame him, he will help us. After three nightsof deep crying for Him, the Lord came to him again, and granted him his second wish.

His pots could break again! It made him even happier than the first time he couldmake unbreakable pots, because he now knew that in the Great Plan, everything is

good!

Topics for discussionDiscuss things children feel are not fair in life.

How would they like to change these?Can they learn through discussion to see the meaning of these things?


9/18

The Man who Couldnt DieDiscuss with children the saddest thing that ever happened in

their lives. Maybe they will talk about somebody dying.

Dying is a very sad thing for many of us. (discuss childrensexperiences) But death also happens as part of the Great Plan.

Once a woodcutter was hard at work when he suddenly felt a

cold rush of air pass by. When he looked up, he saw it wasdeath.

He asked, Have you come to take me?Death said, No, I have come for that lady over there. And as he

pointed, he saw her fall dead on the floor.The woodcutter then asked, When will you come for me?After five years. replied Death.

That night the woodcutter thought what he would do in the next five years, the last

five years of his life. He stopped cutting trees and made a plan.

Five years later, Death came again. The woodcutter looked up and said, Ah, I knewyou would come. But before you take me, can I show you what I have done in these

five years?Death said he would like to know. The woodcutter smiled and said, I wanted to makesomething special. So I stopped cutting trees and made a house in this beautiful tree.

He opened the door, and asked Death to follow him. Downstairs they saw a beautifulliving room. Then they went to the second floor and saw a bedroom and bathroom. It

was all very pretty. Then they went down stairs, the woodcutter first and Deathfollowing him. But as soon as the woodcutter had gone through the door to go

outside, he closed the door, and locked death inside. Death shouted and cried to be

released. But the woodcutter wouldnt hear of it. Instead he hid the key under a stoneand went home.

All over the world, animals, insects, even plants and grass couldnt die. People didnt

die either. The woodcutter grew older and older. His body was sick, was hurting, buthe couldnt die. All over the planet, animals were crowding the forests. People were

standing on top of each other, but they could not die and they didnt know why.

But the one who did know what was wrong, was the woodcutter. And when he sawthat things were really getting worse by the minute, he asked one of his great, great,


10/18


11/18

number of pieces.

But then, what a shock! When they had given out the last piece of heart, they

suddenly realized that they had forgotten to count themselves. There wasnt any pieceof heart left over for themselves! The children looked at each other. How could they

have made such a foolish mistake?

The children started to cry. How could they ever live without a heart?

God noticed this and when He saw how good the children had been in sharing witheverybody their big heart, He decided to solve the problem. From His own heart He

broke a piece, and gave it to the children.The children were shocked. How can we take care of your heart? they said. We

dont always know how to do the right thing

God smiled and said, Dont worry. If you listen, my heart will teach you. And from

that day onwards the children who really liked to see good in everything, took sometime off in the day to close their eyes and be very quiet and listen to their heart, the

heart of God.


12/18

Seeing the Beauty in AllThere are many stories of Yogis who saw beauty in

everything. Some tell of ho they would eat with the

dogs. But there is one special story that stands out.It is a story of Krishna who suddenly wanted to visita house of one of His devotees. The poor man andwoman who lived there quickly readied the place.

The man was still busy when Krishna arrived. Hiswife served Krishna a banana and massaged His feet. He was deeply touched by the

womans devotion. When her husband came in the room where Krishna and his wifewere seated, he saw Krishna eating the banana peel. He scolded his wife for feeding

the peel, instead of the banana. Krishna smiled and told him not to rebuke her aseverything giving in love was equally delicious to Him.

Can you see the beauty in everything?Draw Krishna eating the banana peel.

Always encourage others andnever give up.Life can be difficult, but that doesnt mean we can give up. Our hopes and dreams canmake us very strong and succeed! Thats why we like to support others and help them

be positive and full of strength. We also dont give up ourselves. Here are some stories

of people who didnt give up and succeeded.

Henry Ford failed and went broke five times before he finally succeeded.

Beethoven handled the violin awkwardly and preferred playing his own

compositions instead of improving his technique. His teacher called himhopeless as a composer.

Colonel Sanders had the construction of a new road put him out of business in1967. He went to over 1,000 places trying to sell his chicken recipe before he

found a buyer interested in his 11 herbs and spices. Seven years later, at the ageof 75, Colonel Sanders sold his fried chicken company for a finger-lickin' $15

million!Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor for lack of ideas. Disney also went

bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.


13/18

Charles Darwin, father of the theory of evolution, gave up a medical career andwas told by his father, You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat

catching. In his autobiography, Darwin wrote, I was considered by my father, a

very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard in intellect.Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didnt read until hewas seven. His teacher described him as mentally slow, unsociable and adriftforever in his foolish dreams. He was expelled and refused admittance to Zurich

Polytechnic School. The University of Bern turned down his Ph.D. dissertationas being irrelevant and fanciful.

The movie Star Wars was rejected by every movie studio in Hollywood before20th-Century Fox finally produced it. It went on to be one of the largest grossing

movies in film history.Louis Pasteur was only a mediocre pupil in undergraduate studies and ranked 15out of 22 in chemistry.

The father of the sculptor Rodin [ The Thinker Statue ] said, I have an idiot for ason. Described as the worst pupil in the school, Rodin failed three times to

secure admittance to the school of art. His uncle called him uneducable.Dr. Seuss' first children's book, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street ,

was rejected by twenty-seven publishers. The twenty-eighth publisher, Vanguard press, sold six million copies of the book.

Never give up believing in yourself!!!

==============================

Quiet Time Visualization of BeautyTell the tale of Grandpa Flowers, one who didnt give up on his dream.

Grandpa liked flowers. Thats why they called him Grandpa Flowers. After grandmadied, he had not much to do. So he started to plant flowers. First one. Then two, three

four, and more and more. After a few years there were flowers everywhere. And not just in the garden. They were on the roofs, the cars, the bicycles, the highways.

Grandpa even had planted flowers on peoples hats. It had become a flower world.And Grandpa was constantly planting more and more, watering them weeding them

so that his flowers would always be bright and shining.

All these flowers made the people feel very nice. Flowers mean love. Flowers meankindness. Flowers touch the heart. And when people looked around they couldnt get
http://www.statue.com/the-thinker-statue.htmlhttp://www.statue.com/the-thinker-statue.html


14/18

angry, because it was so sweet and pretty all around them.

But when they looked around, there was also one place where there were no flowers.

Do you know where?Yes, it was on the moon.And when Grandpa Flowers was sitting on the balcony and looking out at the sky, hethought about it for a long time. Then he started to sing:

Wouldnt it be beautiful

Flowers everywhere

Growing on the moon and floating in the air.


Flowers in the sky

That sprout and blossom while they fly.


To have flowers that can say

More than words ever can convey


Flowers everywhere

Growing on the moon and floating in the air.

John, his grandson came over and smiled: But how, grandpa? There is no air on themoon. Flowers cant grow without air!

Im going to do something about it. He said. John and

grandfather carried stones and cement and started to build.What are you making? the people asked. But they could see

for themselves. It was a huge chimney that was so tall that itdisappeared into the clouds!

When that was finished, grandfather collected all the wood they could find and

hammered almost day and night. It was a noise all could hear wide and far. Again the people came and asked What are you making? But they could see that too for

themselves. It was a boat, no a giant ship! But we dont have water around here. saidthe people. Yes I know, said Grandpa. It is a space ship! The people shook their


15/18

heads. They went away, murmuring and laughing Ships cant fly.

But the next day when the people came again, they saw that the ship had disappeared


16/18

From the Story: Grandpa Flowers


17/18

along with Grandpa Flowers.

That night, when all the other people had been asleep Grandpa Flowers had tied

hundreds of pigeons to the ship, that was now full of bags with seeds and had flownaway.And with the help of the pigeons, they had almost passed theclouds on their way to the moon.

But as they went further and further away from the earth they

got caught in a storm. The boat was shaking, there was lots of rain. John cried, Grandfather, the chimney is broken.

Grandfather was shocked, but then got busy trying desperatelyto get his boat back to the earth safely. To no avail. They turnedover, spreading all the seeds all over the place, and throwing grandpa Flowers and his

grandson into free fall. The faithful birds however helped them land safely, but heart broken. They had worked so hard and all in vain, so it seemed. Dejected and sad, they

walked over the mountain tops to their homes.

They walked through valleys, over rivers and passed by lakes. They were walking butnot talking. They thought: All our work has failed. Now that the chimney is broken

the seeds wont sprout, there is not enough air.They were scared to go back to their home. They were sure the people there wouldlaugh at them. And after many days they waited for the night to go home secretly.

But as they came to the village, there were many people looking at the sky. And theywere shouting, Look! Look at the sky!

And really, grandfather saw first the yellow

of the marigolds, then the purple of the

violets, the white of the lilies, the red of theroses, shining in a beautiful circle on the

moon. And then in the sky popped updahlias, carnations, daffodils, spots of

flowers between the twinkling stars. The people were dancing with joy. This was

amazing. Really amazing. They snapped pictures, they made movies, they shouted

and pumped their fists, and then they sang


18/18

Vaues of Love Curriculum - I believe in Good

Documents