February 5, 2020

Notes by Lassya Kommineni

Riddle: What flows like water, reflects like a mirror, and responds like an echo? Hint: You’ve seen it before in nature Answer: A river

Last Week’s Value: Be controlled

Riddle: What part of your body weighs 3 pounds? Answer: Your brain

Riddle:What part of your body’s made up of 75% water? Answer: Your brain

Riddle:What part of your body takes in 20% of your oxygen? Answer: Your brain

Riddle:What part of your body has 100,000 miles of blood vessels? Answer: Your brain

Riddle: How many lines of code does Google have? Answer: 2 billion lines of code However, your brain has 100 billion lines of code

“Yoga is that what which makes the mind quiet.” -Rishi Pathanjali From the book Yoga Sutras

This Week’s Value: Yama

Yama means To Be Open Also the more quiet the mind is the more open it is. In the Dao of Pooh Pooh and everyone learns to fall with the fall and flow with the flow.

Practice: Riddles

1. What question can you never say “yes” to? Hint: Everyone goes through this everyday Answer: Are you sleeping?

2. Person who makes it doesn’t need it, person who buys it doesn’t need it, person using it doesn’t know it

Hint: Made of wood

Answer: Coffin

3. I have keys but no locks, I have space but no room, and you can enter but not exit

Hint: Everyone used it before signing in to Happy Hour

Answer: Keyboard

4. What’s full of holes yet still holds water?

Hint: Your parents encourage you to use this more often, but you always procrastinate

Answer: A sponge

5. What is always in front of you but you never feel it?

Answer: The future

VivekJi asked us these riddles to make us feel happy, and see how open-minded we are.

RAW: Study for our test next week. Which will have one question from every class.

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Notes by Aditya Mahes

To be open — Yama

Last Class

What flows like water; reflects like a mirror; and responds like an echo?

· River (ans.) A river flows (water), reflects(when is controlled), and responds (a valley) If a river is not controlled in will not be able flow, reflect, and respond.

We should be controlled to reflect, flow, and respond (like a river).

Lesson:

o Your Brain

§ What part of your body is 3 pounds? (ans. Brain)

§ What part of your body is 75% water? (ans. Brain)

§ What part of your body has 100,000 miles of blood vessels? (ans. Brain)

§ How many lines of code does Google have? (ans. 2,000,000,000)

§ How many lines of code does your brain have? (ans. 100,000,000,000)

· Why? To make your mind open

· The quieter your mind is, the more open minded you are.

o Open Mind

§ How do you know if you have an open mind?

• When you take people or things for granted you have a closed mind. Ex. When you lose things or when you talk to people.

§ How can you develop an open mind?

• Express your gratitude to become open minded.

o From the Tao of Pooh

§ “Learn to fall with the fall and flow with the flow”- Tao of Pooh

Practice: Riddles

· What question can you never answer yes to?

(ans. ‘Are you sleeping’)

· The person who makes me doesn’t need me. The person who buys me doesn’t use me. The person who uses me doesn’t know me. Who am I?

(ans. Coffin)

· I have: Keys but no lock. Space but no room. Enter but no exit. Who am I?

(ans. Computer Keyboard)

· I am full of holes but I still hold water.

(ans. Sponge)

· What is always in front of you but you never see it or feel it. (Hardest one)

(ans. Your future)

§ Why did we do this?

· Just to be happy; have fun!

· To see how open you can be.