1. On rough paper – write your answers to these questions Don’t put your name on the piece of paper! Describe the change Explain what was good about the change Explain what was bad about the change Explain how the change affected you Think about a recent change in your life (big or small)

3. Think Pair Share Is it easier to live if you accept that your life is always changing?

4. To answer the question, we will need to enquire into Hindu beliefs What is Samsara and is it a useful way to understand life? Today’s learning question Q

5. Look at the Hindu sacred text Each table has a different explanation of Samsara Discuss the explanation given. What are your ideas about Samsara so far? Write your thoughts on the sugar paper around the sheet. Move to the next table and repeat to develop your ideas on what Samsara might be. Read what other groups have written – what can you add?

6. Key word: Samsara Atman = soul Hindus believe that everyone has a soul (atman) that survives the death of the body and returns to live again in a new body. Life is constantly changing. Every living creature is born, lives, dies, and is reborn. Hindus believe in reincarnation. This cycle of life, death and rebirth is called samsara. Birth Death Birth Death

7. Samsara – quick check! Close your book! Pair up and label each other A and B. Person A: Can you explain what samsara is to the person next to you? Person B: Did they explain samsara correctly? Samsara: The cycle of life, death and rebirth. A Hindu belief.

8. Time to write… Is the idea of samsara useful? Discuss this question in your pairs and then write your responses individually. It is useful because… On the other hand, it is not useful because…

9. Answer the key question in 10 words exactly! What is Samsara and is it a useful way to understand life? Q

10. What is Samsara? ‘The quality of the soul decides its future body. Its thoughts and actions can lead it to freedom, or lead it to bondage in life after life’. A verse from the Upanishads (Sacred Hindu Texts) Read the text. Discuss what the meaning could be. Discuss what it might tell us about samsara. Write your ideas on the sugar paper.

11. What is Samsara? ‘The soul is born and unfolds in a body, with dreams and desires… and then it is reborn in a new body, according to its former works’. A verse from the Upanishads (Sacred Hindu Texts) Read the text. Discuss what the meaning could be. Discuss what it might tell us about samsara. Write your ideas on the sugar paper.

12. What is Samsara? ‘When a man knows God, the God of love, then he leaves behind his bodies of transmigration’ A verse from the Upanishads (Sacred Hindu Texts) Read the text. Discuss what the meaning could be. Discuss what it might tell us about samsara. Write your ideas on the sugar paper.

13. What is Samsara? Look at the painting. Discuss what the meaning could be. Discuss what it might tell us about samsara. Write your ideas on the sugar paper.

14. What is Samsara? Look at the painting. Discuss what the meaning could be. Discuss what it might tell us about samsara. Write your ideas on the sugar paper.

15. What is Samsara? ‘Just as a man discards old clothes and buys new ones the atman discards worn out bodies and enters new ones’. Verse from the Bhagavad-Gita (Hindu Sacred Text) Read the text. Discuss what the meaning could be. Discuss what it might tell us about samsara. Write your ideas on the sugar paper.