![]() ![]() ![]() “A child does not have the legal authority to give consent even though the child may say ‘this is OK,’’’ said Valdes. High School after a student showed others a video of him and Calvi having sex, police say. She was put in cuffs on Thursday and charged with lewd and lascivious battery electronic transmission harmful to minors unlawful use of a communications device child neglect offenses against students by authority figures contributing to delinquency and possession of a firearm on school property.Īuthorities were first told of Calvi’s relationship with the student in March, an arrest report read. Calvi becomes the third teacher in Miami-Dade County arrested for similar charges this month. She did not tell detectives how many months she was pregnant or who the father is, Valdes said.ĭoral police and Miami-Dade School Board police have been investigating the allegations against Heiry Calvi, 41, since March. She was also released from Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Saturday morning after submitting bond. Smith K-8 Center teacher who was charged with having an inappropriate relationship and sex with a 15-year-old former student of hers told a Doral detective she was pregnant, said Rey Valdes, a Doral spokesman. This reflection by Ajahn Pasanno is from the book, Nourishing the Roots, “Purifying the Foundation,” (pdf) pp. Since our actions have results, we want to make sure those results are ones that we can delight in and that create a sense of well-being and harmony with those around us. When our integrity, our sīla, has this wholesome root, it keeps bringing more and more wholesome mental states because it’s based on a wise understanding that our actions have results, both for ourselves and for others. Then one doesn’t want to harm or create suffering for others. So hiri and ottappa are rooted in respect: respect for oneself and respect for others. Again, it’s a sense of shame and fear, but it’s a fear of wrongdoing because of respect for others. Ottappa is often translated as a fear of wrongdoing. There’s directing attention to a sense of protection, of looking after oneself so that one is able to nurture the qualities that uplift the mind and brighten the heart. ![]() The root of conscience is a respect for oneself when one either is contemplating doing something or when one has done something that is unskillful, and it elicits a sense of “Gosh, I can do a lot better than that.” One wants to protect oneself from one’s own unskillfulness. It’s important to recognize the difference because shame and guilt can make it very complicated. A good translation for hiri is conscience, but it’s sometimes a sense of shame or shrinking back from the unwholesome. These protectors of the world are difficult to translate into English. In Buddhist practice, these qualities are called the protectors of the world. It’s more about approaching the precepts from a place of hiri and ottappa. Purifying virtue is not so much about getting the legal description of the precepts and then seeing how much one has to do and how much one can get away with. ![]() When we direct our attention to mindfulness and to meditation, if that root of wholesome mental qualities is there, then the meditation is going to go a lot more smoothly it’s going to be much more accessible to us. ![]()
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