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1.2. Discuss the following questions with your friends and

teacher.

a. Have you seen a new born baby?
b. Has anyone recently died in your family or locality?

c. How do people react when a new baby is born?
d. How do people react when a person is dead?

1.3. Now say aloud:

a. Every life is followed by death.

b. We can’t prevent death.

c. We must try to make our life great with good deeds.

2 Reading Time

Read the poem given and do the activities.

peony

Why must I tell you this story, O little one

You are just a bud-of-girl who knows nothing

Now you are full faced, bright as sun
Now you open your skirts pink, layered, brazen

Suffering is alchemy, change is God
Now you drop your head, heavy with rust

Sit, contemplate, what did Buddha say?
Old age, sickness death no one owns eternity

Detach, detach, look away from the sun

Let your petals fall aimlessly
Don’t despair, little one we are done

by Marilyn Chin

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