March 18, 2020

Notes by Aditya Mahes

Lesson

Shankarji’s embarrassing story(personal story)

• Moral: You have to be friendly like Maggie. In Co-captain Shankarji’s story, Maggie understood Shankarji’s feelings and helped Shankarji at the moment. We all should be like her.

What are the most important qualities of a friend?

• They think of you first even before themselves
• Encourages you to grow(Most important)
• Empathy
• Kindness
• Loyalty
• Honesty, etc.

Being a friend to someone vs. being friendly

• Being friendly is when you try to give all friend qualities to everyone without partiality
• Think of others first (Most important)
• Being a friend to someone may just mean being a friend to one person and not to others.

What is required to be friendly to everyone (even to people you may not really like)?

• Give them a mental blessing or realize that the person you may not like (their behaviours) might be depressed for some personal issue. So they may be acting that unhappiness or anger they have inside against others.
• Empathy is also the most important quality of a friend.
• Can bring compassion; we understand others feelings.

Practice

• We came up to everyone at home and said something good about them.
• We found out that not only did they felt happy but we did too. It brings joy to everyone.
• Whoever is friendly has the most friends.

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Notes by Laasya Kommineni

Most Important Qualities In A Friend:

. empathy
. kindness
. loyalty
. honesty
. selflessness
. MOST IMPORTANT QUALITY: being someone who pushes your friend beyond their comfort zone

Question: Do you think there’s a difference in being a friend and being friendly?
Answer: being friendly means expressing all the qualities (above) to everyone even if you’re not super close — being friendly

Question: How do we develop the ability to be kind to people that are mean to us?

Answer: despite how they’re acting be friendly to them
To be able to do this you need to be empathetic
When we act empathetic we see that the person who’s being unkind to us is experiencing something making them act that way

Practice
tell everyone in your house a good quality about themselves

nature of friendliness — brings joy to everyone including ourselves

RAW: Every morning when you wake up before you get out of bed say loudly, “Thank you ground for letting me step on you”