GOOD MANNERS & RIGHT CONDUCT

THE GMRC TEACHER

as an agent of nation-building and sustainable environment as an agent of
nation-building and sustainable environment

Caring and Sharing for the Earth

Care for the Planet
Becoming an Instrument of Peace
Resolve Conflict Non-Violently
Call for Filipino
Building Patriotic Community

OBJECTIVES
understand that others do not always understand what we say, in the same
way that we mean;
demonstrate awareness of one's own ability in good communication through
compassionate living and
internalize the value of caring for humans and the environment

LESSON 1: Caring and Sharing for the Earth

A. Be compassionate and do not do harm

As a mother loves her one and only child, so shall you love the whole
humanity. - The Buddha

Compassion refers to that quality which encompasses nonviolence, kindness,

empathy and equanimity in the highest and purest form.

Four Basic Forms of Compassion

1. Non-Violence Non-violence is an integral active quality in compassionate

living. It means to abstain from all violent acts and motives. In a conflict, to be
non-violent does not mean that you submit yourself to unjust causes.

2. Kindness This is the state of mind that motivates a person to help and
serve those who suffer. Kindness transcends the ego that seeks reward, profit
and benefits in return. You can be kind in all your responses to other people
by the way you think, talk and behave.

3. Empathy Empathy is an effective response of concern and tenderness to

the joys and suffering in others. With empathy you share the other person's
feelings and experience it as if you have entered into that person's inner
world.

4. Equanimity Equanimity means maintaining a detached sense of calmness

in mind and temper, in face of stressful and provocative situations in life. It
also includes being large hearted and forgiving.