Group+9

**Top Five Things We Learned About Ourselves**
 * 2009 FDSTL Conference Notes - Group 9**
 * 1) Discomfort felt outside the gate during walking meditation
 * 2) Ministers should be more kind / understanding when chanting
 * 3) Perceptions are influenced by dynamic external factors that change over time
 * 4) Reciting Nembustu helps us to focus
 * 5) Always different ways to look at different situations

**Top Five Things Learned About Shinran**
 * 1) Insight at age 9 (cherry blossom poem)
 * 2) Ability to embrace other-power influences
 * 3) Bodhisattva told him to seek Honen
 * 4) Left monastery
 * 5) Conflicts and unrest with rival clans

**Lesson Plans (Grade K)**
 * 1) Walking Meditation activity
 * 2) One step = one syllable of “Namo Amida Butsu”
 * 3) Focus
 * 4) Calming

**Lesson Plans (Grades 6-8)**
 * 1) “Rip Van Winkle”–type character retelling Shinran’s life as a friend of Shinran

**Lesson Plans (High School)**
 * 1) Walking Meditation activity that takes students outside of their comfort zone (outside temple grounds)