Child-preceptor
23. Learn to behold this ocean of the
heart. Look up at the cloudless sky outside and make the heart clear
and pure. To tell the truth, one-pointedness of mind is child's
play, an ordinary thing. It is distraction of mind that is
unnatural, artificial. Look steadily into eyes of a little child.
While it looks at you intently, you have blinked a dozen times.
Children's minds become easily one-pointed. Show a little child,
four or five months old, the rich greenness of Nature without.
It will gaze intently on it. Mothers
think that, if a child looks at green trees and plants, even its
motions are green - it is as if all its senses are in its eyes when
it looks through them. Any little incident makes a powerful
impression on the child's mind. Educationists regard the first three
or four years of a child's education as the really effective part of
education. No matter how many Universities, or High Schools or
Cultural Associations you establish, one never gets again what one
had in the first few years. I have had something to do with
education.
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