Mindful Listening Practices
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  • 410AMindful Listening Practices
    Demonstrate good listening by showing quiet body, watching eyes, and still hands during story time; use listening games with partners where one person talks and the other shows they are listening; and describe what it feels like when someone listens carefully to you.
  • 410EMindful Listening Practices
    Implement deep listening practices, and analyze the “listening pot” metaphor to identify essential conditions for effective communication.
  • 505EGenerosity and Offerings
    Analyze the relationship between creative offering and the paramita of generosity; evaluate how releasing attachment to artistic outcomes transforms the creative process into dharma practice; and synthesize understanding of lila (divine play) by creating collaborative artworks that embody selfless generosity while maintaining joyful spontaneity.
  • 503Contemplative Arts
    Compare and contrast contemplative arts traditions (ikebana, chado or tea ceremony, calligraphy, kyudo, charya dance) as forms of meditative practice; analyze how specific arts integrate mindfulness, precision, and aesthetic awareness; and evaluate personal experience by engaging in contemplative arts practice while documenting insights about the relationship between creative process and spiritual development.

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First click “Generate AI Lesson Planning Data” and then “Copy to Clipboard”.

For this process to actually work, you need to then paste the result into the AI tool yourself.

This seems to work quite well with Claude and ChatGPT.

After pasting what this pop-up puts in your clipboard, the AI tool (you’ve chosen) should prompt you for any additional information you may wish to include, and then create a rough draft lesson plan that you can customize and edit until it’s ready for teaching.

Disclaimer: Teach content that you are most familiar with from your own study and practice. Think through what elements will work for your students. AI makes many mistakes, so be very careful and conscientious using the results as a basis for creating your own thoughtful lessons. Approached with care and attention, this method of generating a lesson plan with AI may give you more time to focus on the most essential elements of instruction.

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