Overcoming Aggression
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUaCbNYZwZg
In 2013, the Jedi Compass listed “Overcome Aggression”. It was replaced with “Overcome Emotions” in the 2022 revision. Aggression is forceful and hostile behavior toward another person. This is fueled by emotions such as anger, fear, feeling inferior, etc. Watch the video above and discuss how aggressive emotions impact a person’s reputation. Your answer must be a minimum of 250 words.
Calming Hostilities
Aggression does not always start out on your side, but can be an escalation from someone else's aggression. What are some tactics that might help you control a situation so that your opponent does not feel the need to get physical with you? Your answer should be 250 (not including citations) and a minimum of 2 citations in APA format.
Compassion Assignment
This assignment is added to the curriculum as a result of the 2022 revision of the Jedi Compass.
Compassion- A Jedi draws strength and wisdom through their connections made with others. Compassion is the root of connection, and thus is the essential string that connects us all to each other and to the rest of the world. Decisions and actions made by all Jedi should be guided by compassion toward friend and foe alike.Compassion is probably more difficult to accomplish than “Positive Regard”. While there are lines in the sand that need to be drawn, knowing how to compassionately approach those situations can be the difference between a person doubling down, and them growing from the experience.
After watching the video below, discuss what you learned about Compassion that you previously had not considered.
Overcoming Emotions
This assignment is added based on the updated Jedi Compass (2024).
When we think of emotions that can lead us down the wrong path, we often think of “negative” emotions such as anger, hatred, upset and the like. But these are not the only emotions that can lead us away from being in Harmony with the Force. Choose a “positive” emotion and explore how letting it rule your actions can cause you to lose sight of either a Jedi Ethic or Jedi Value outlined within the Jedi Compass.
Overcoming Recklessness
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCseXz7HicY
Assess what types of situations you reasonably might find yourself responding to that might cause you to be reckless. What kind of training do you plan on undertaking to overcome these situations? Your answer should be 250 words (not including citations, if any are included).
Emotional Intelligence (Bachelor's Program)
The following Assignment corresponds with "Five Skills of Emotional Intelligence and Techniques for Improving Them" in "Entering the Cave" by Keith Williams & Alethea Thompson
Identify strategies of high emotional intelligent individuals you already employ in day to day life. Your answer must be a minimum of 5 bullet points.
Learning from Recklessness
Think of a situation where someone you know did something reckless and it cost them something (either a job, time because they had to redo everything, a relationship, their life, etc). What might have been some indicators that they were going to do something reckless? If you had witnessed the indicators before anything happened, what might you have tried to help prevent the issue from arising? Your answer should be 250 words (not including citations, if any are included).
Attachments and Liberation
(Author Unknown)
"It is impossible to live in the world without attachments, or indeed to eradicate them. Our affections for others, the desire to succeed in our endeavors, our interests and passions, our love of life itself--all of these are attachments and potential sources of disappointment or suffering, but they are the substance of our humanity and the elements of engaged and fulfilled lives."
Buddhism is a teaching of liberation, aimed at freeing people from the inevitable sufferings of life. To this end, early Buddhist teachings focused on the impermanence of all things. The Buddha realized that nothing in this world stays the same; everything is in a constant state of change. Pleasurable conditions, favorable circumstances, our relationships with those we hold dear, our health and well-being--any sense of comfort and security we derive from these things is continually threatened by life's flux and uncertainty, and ultimately by death, the most profound change of all.
The Buddha saw that people's ignorance of the nature of change was the cause of suffering. We desire to hold on to what we value, and we suffer when life's inevitable process of change separates us from those things. Liberation from suffering comes, he taught, when we are able to sever our attachments to the transient things of this world.
Buddhist practice, in this perspective, is oriented away from the world: life is suffering, the world is a place of uncertainty; liberation lies in freeing oneself from attachment to worldly things and concerns, attaining a transcendent enlightenment.
The Lotus Sutra, upon which Nichiren Buddhism is based, is revolutionary in that it reverses this orientation, overturning the basic premises of the Buddha's earlier teachings and focusing people's attention instead on the infinite possibilities of life and the joy of living in the world.
Where other teachings had regarded enlightenment, or the final liberation of Buddhahood, as a goal to be attained at some future point in time, in the teachings of the Lotus Sutra each person is inherently and originally a Buddha. Through Buddhist practice we develop our enlightened qualities and exercise them in the world here and now for the sake of others and for the purpose of positively transforming society. The true nature of our lives at this moment is one of expansive freedom and possibility.
This dramatic reorientation effected by the Lotus Sutra is distilled in the key and seemingly paradoxical concepts of Nichiren Buddhism that "earthly desires are enlightenment" and "the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana." The image of the pure lotus flower blossoming in the muddy swamp is a metaphor that encapsulates this perspective--freedom, liberation, enlightenment are forged and expressed in the very midst of the murky swamp of life with its problems, pains and contradictions.
It is impossible to live in the world without attachments, or indeed to eradicate them. Our affections for others, the desire to succeed in our endeavors, our interests and passions, our love of life itself--all of these are attachments and potential sources of disappointment or suffering, but they are the substance of our humanity and the elements of engaged and fulfilled lives.
The challenge is not to rid oneself of attachments but, in the words of Nichiren, to become enlightened concerning them. The teachings of Nichiren thus stress the transformation, rather than the elimination, of desire. Desires and attachments fuel the quest for enlightenment. As he wrote: "Now Nichiren and others who chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo . . . burn the firewood of earthly desires and behold the fire of enlightened wisdom..."
In their proper perspective--when we can see them clearly and master them rather than being mastered by them--desires and attachments enable us to lead interesting and significant lives. As SGI President Daisaku Ikeda says, "Our Buddhist practice enables us to discern their true nature and utilize them as the driving force to become happy."
It is our small ego, our "lesser self," that makes us slaves to our desires and causes us to suffer. Buddhist practice enables us to break out of the shell of our lesser self and awaken to the "greater self" of our inherent Buddha nature.
This expanded sense of self is based on a clear awareness of the interconnected fabric of life which we are part of and which sustains us. When awakened to the reality of our relatedness to all life, we can overcome the fear of change and experience the deeper continuities beyond and beneath the ceaseless flow of change.
The basic character of our greater self is compassion. Ultimate freedom is experienced when we develop the ability to channel the full energy of our attachments into compassionate concern and action on behalf of others.
Citation of Article:
SGI Quarterly. 2011 July. Attachments and Liberation. Retrieved 8 April 2014. www.sgi.org/about-us/buddhist-concepts/attachments-and-liberation.html?type=tag&num=0
Attachment
Consider the article "Attachments and Liberation", how do you treat your own attachments in life? Do you feel that they are a detriment to your way of living? Or that they enhance your life?
Your answer must be 250 words (not including citations, if any).
Mourning/Greiving
Disclaimer: You'll need to Research "Kubler-Ross" if you do not have the workbook for this course, to complete this assignment.
Find and outline one of the model of mourning/grieving below. Contrast and Compare to the 5 stages proposed by Kubler-Ross. Your answer must be a minimum of 250 words (not including citations) and have 2 sources cited in APA format.
John Bowlby’s attachment theory (1969-80)
Colin Murray Parkes psyhco-social elaborations (1972)
Worden (1991)
Silverman and Klass (1996)
Stroebe and Schutt (1999)
Asceticism
Identify and discuss a religious, or philosophical, tradition that rejects asceticism. Your answer must be a minimum of 250 words (not including citations) and have 2 sources cited in APA format.
Between the two (Asceticism and the one you have chosen to compare it to), which one do you feel speaks more to the Jedi Path, and why?
Clean Your Home
Clean house, like the literal house. Go around your house and determine what is that you want to get rid of (which is yours, let's not start any fights between other family members). What are some of the things that you feel you simply cannot get rid of because you have some form of attachment to them? Why?
This isn't to say that you need to get rid of those items. Certainly get rid of the stuff that you don't feel you need anymore, but with things which have sentimental or practical value, don't get rid of them. The idea of this assignment is to get your brain ticking on what value you place of different things.
What did you learn about your attachments to these items?
Your answer must be a minimum of 250 words (not including citations).
Instructions for Mid-Term Paper
Your Mid-Term Paper must be a minimum of 3 pages (not including Title and Source pages), double-spaced, Times New Roman 12pt Font and include a minimum of 5 sources in APA Format.
For your Mid-Term Paper, select one of the topics below to research and explain how Attachments, Aggression and Recklessness can detract from one of the following Ethics in the Jedi Compass.
Duty to All
Respect the Law
Defense
Action
To complete this assignment, please write below which combination of topics you have decided to tackle.
Ability-Based Model
This assignment corresponds with "Ability-Based Model (The Four Branch Model of Emotional Intelligence) in Depth" from the workbook.
Theory exercise
Write an essay based on the theories of emotional intelligence. You are given free rein to create your own essay question to be created; however, here are a list of suggestions for topics;
• A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of one of the models.
• A comparison of two of the models presented.
• An in-depth informational essay on a model of your choice, excluding the four-branch model.
Short essay: 500 words minimum. Please use a minimum of 5 supporting sources (in APA format) for any discussion or debate included.
Balancing the Overcome Section
This question may seem like a trick question, but it is not: What situation may arise where it is best to not overcome your attachment, recklessness or aggression? Is there any reason that actions demonstrating an attachment, recklessness or aggression is the most sound way of dealing with an obstacle? Your answer should be 250 words (not including citations, if any are included).
Submit Your Mid-Term Paper
What Do You Value?
Respond to the questions outlined below:
What activities do you participate in?
Which of these activities do you find meaningful in of themselves? Do you enjoy or value the activity for its own sake, or is it the glory of success you value?
What peripheral exercises and actions do you have to carry out to participate in said activities?
Which of these activities do you put the hard work in for? What activities already require you to be disciplined?
What actions work against you being able to participate in these activities do you partake in?
Short-Term Goal
Assign yourself a short-term goal to be achieved by the end of this course. Outline how you plan to achieve it, and what barriers you believe exist to achieving it.
Journaling Assignment
Begin a journal recording your actions each day over the next five weeks. Outline actions that are goal orientated; working towards the goals identified in part 1 and 2 of the assignments. However, also outline actions which are self-sabotaging, and present the reasons for engaging in them. This is not a guilt exercise, but rather to understand the multitude of reasons we can engage in them (Mental fatigue and so on).
This assignment is mostly for you. But you will be required to give a report of what you learned from this journal at the end of the class.
Intro to Integrity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2iV27VxI-I
Why is integrity an important quality to cultivate one's life? Your answer must be a minimum of 250 words (not including citations) and include 3 sources cited in APA format.
The Code & Integrity
How does the Jedi Compass Ethic “Loyalty to the Jedi Code” relate to maintaining integrity to the Jedi Path? Your answer must be a minimum of 250 words (not including citations, if any are provided). All citations must be in APA format.
Intro to Responsibility
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBuhZZVe-m8
What do you feel the responsibilities of a Jedi are? How would this be different from the responsibility you have to yourself in becoming a better person? Your answer must be a minimum of 250 words (not including citations, if you provide any). All citations must be in APA format.
Responsibility & The Code
How does being responsible help one live the Jedi Code? Your answer must be a minimum of 250 words (not including citations, if any are provided). All citations must be in APA format.
Assignment 1
This assignment is going to be different from assignments I've given in this class or previous classes. I'm giving you two different options, mostly because I know that not everyone is good with creative writing but flourish more in analysis. Because of the time it will take for you to create this, this will be the only assignment inside of this module. If you're looking for extra credit, you may do both of the options provided.
The purpose of this assignment is to demonstrate the relation between Responsibility, Integrity and Discipline.
Option A: Creative Writing
Write a short story in a minimum of 2000 words that demonstrates an understanding of the value of these three themes. The main character can be the embodiment of these values or they can they be completely devoid of them, it's up to you. The genre (Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romance, Contemporary, Horror, etc) is also your choice.
Option B: Analysis
Read a book, legend, tall-tale, myth, or watch a movie and write a 2000 word analysis of how the three values are represented in the story. How does the story demonstrate the importance of these three themes?
Example of a completed assignment: www.forceacademy.us/index.php/10-light-content/389-sailor-moon-supers-analysis-virtues-of-responsibility-discipline-integrity?fbclid=IwAR1t3yZm_PLPFITLRChv6kBbwdo9MnzWEex68Uw9LmL_zj5QR5VW4I9coDA
Final Paper (Instructions & Submit)
To complete this course, you’ll need to submit a Final Paper.
Your final paper must be a minimum of 3 pages (not including Title and Source pages), double-spaced, Times New Roman 12pt Font and include a minimum of 5 sources in APA Format.
For your final paper, select one of the topics below to research and explain how the participants demonstrated a lack of Personal Responsibility, Integrity and Discipline. What do their actions tell you about the dangers of blindly believing in leadership?
Stanford Prison Experiment
Milgram Experiment
Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal
When you have it written, submit your final paper in this assignment area.
Reflection Assignment
In Module 6, you were given the following assignment:
Begin a journal recording your actions each day over the next five weeks. Outline actions that are goal orientated; working towards the goals identified in part 1 and 2 of the assignments. However, also outline actions which are self-sabotaging, and present the reasons for engaging in them. This is not a guilt exercise, but rather to understand the multitude of reasons we can engage in them (Mental fatigue and so on).
For your assignment answer the following questions:
1) What did you learn from using the journal?
2) How did you improve because of what you were learning?
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