March 9, 2022

Notes by Dhruva Shreejay

Review

We reviewed the first 5 of 9 virtues to always be happy:

Viveka – prioritization, our ability to know what is important and do it.  

Vairagya – cheerful acceptance, how we can happily accept what is happening.  Steps to cheerful acceptance: 

1. Understand we can’t control everything
2. See the positives in things
3. Find ways a “bad” situation can help you learn

Shama – quietude of mind, control of our thoughts.  The steps to achieve quietude of mind are:

1. Get a better relationship with our devices 
2. Keep our bodies and spaces clean
3. Focus on service – help your agitated mind by thinking about something other than your problems by helping others

Dhama – discipline, our ability to do things regardless of our likes and dislikes.  Do something out of your comfort zone instead of what you want to do.  The Opposite of discipline is indulgence 

Uparama – understanding, how we learn about others’ point of view and properly understanding how they feel.  

In this class, we continued to learn about Uparama.  

Activity

For our activity, we went onto Scratch and coded on it.  The purpose of it was to understand how computers see things.  We learned how to add and move images, attach backgrounds, make text appear, etc.  We each made an animation with a theme surrounding understanding.  It helped us to understand how computers see the world.          

RAW

Our RAW was to finish our animations about understanding.