Lesson on 2nd March: Dharma
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009After having looked at Hindu Rites of Passage for a while we spent today looking at the Hindu concept of “Dharma”. We started off considering foreign words that are used in English (like “corgi” which is Welsh meaning “little dog”, or “doolally” which comes from an Indian town of a similar name in which English army officers were said to go crazy).
Then we looked at “dharma” in more detail, and explored the concept of “duty”. This involved looking at the Dharma of policemen, worms, dogs and trees. We also thought about how these things work together. You drew your own pictures of living things and identified their dharma.
Finally, we compared Obama Dharma and Farmer Dharma.