Thursday, September 17 and Friday, September 18 (and Monday, September 21, because assemblies made us catch up.)

Essential Question: If everyone's point of view is relative, what does this say about how we form and expand perspectives? How do Watts' ideas connect to Abbey, Olson, and Hanh?

Agenda: 
1. Journal: Seven Seconds
Write for 10 minutes. 

2. Quick Write: How do we create our own perspectives? 

3. Cornell Notes Template

4. Read: Watts "The Maya Doctrine"

5. Complete all following items in your Cornell Notes (put your findings on the right and the headings, for example: Vocabulary on the left) 
Vocabulary (Add to your Cornell Notes and add definitions as you read):

• Brahman
  
• Moksha
  
• Maya 
  

6. After reading Paragraph 1: What is Brahman not? (Three examples and explain)

7. Read Paragraph 2 and answer: What is Maya (provide three examples)?

8. Read Paragraph 3 and answer: 

• Redefine Maya
  
• How does Watts expand the concept? (Describe and provide an example)
  

9. Read Paragraph 4 and answer:

• According to Watts, why is this concept hard to understand?
  
• How does a “liberated” person see the world according to Watts?

10. Read Paragraph 5-6 and answer:

• What does it mean if something is relative?
  
• According to Watts in paragraph 5, how is the doctrine of Maya a doctrine of relativity?
  
• He gives the examples of WW1 and birth to explain how people’s points of view are relative. Describe one of these examples
  

11. Read Paragraph 7 and 8 and answer:

• What are two examples Watts gives to show that people could be described as both parts and wholes?
  

12. Summary:

• What is Maya?
  
• Give an example
  
• Why is Maya unwise?
  
• What does one achieve if one goes beyond Maya?
  

13. Make a connection:
How is the idea of “maya” similar to the idea of “the thing itself”

Assignments:
Your GoogleDoc for today should include: 

• Journal
• How do we create our own perspective?
• Cornell Notes (on items 5.-13.)