This download version of Buddhist Mind Science: Activating Your Potential, an introductory level course, is for FPMT centers and study groups only. It contains the program components for Module 1 only in PDF format or as PowerPoint files.

Buddhist Mind Science: Activating Your Potential is a FPMT introductory level course. This course introduces the Buddhist knowledge of the mind to provide:

• Practical techniques and insight on meditation,
• Understanding of the mechanisms of suffering and happiness,
• Tools to find purpose and mental balance in our daily life, and
• The means to discover and activate our inner potential for warmheartedness and wisdom.

And it does so through presenting both the Buddhist and a comparative modern scientific perspectives to stimulate reflection and inquiry. The course is presented over seven modules.

Module 1 Cultivating lasting happiness: What Buddhism and science have to say about it focuses on an exploration of what leads to dissatisfaction and suffering, and what contributes to happiness for oneself and others. The fundamentals of meditation and mind training are introduced, especially in the areas of establishing a meaningful direction in life, balancing the mind with equanimity and a caring attitude, and nurturing warmheartedness and wisdom drawn from the Buddhist tradition. It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on our nervous system, values, subjective well-being, neuroplasticity and altruism.

This module contains 6 units:

Unit 1: A Universal Need

Unit 2: Are We Pursuing Happiness in the Best Way?

Unit 3: Following the Scent of Lasting Happiness

Unit 4: Meditation and Mind Training

Unit 5: Wisdom and Warmheartedness as a Source of Lasting Happiness

Unit 6: Enhancing Wisdom and Warmheartedness

This package includes the following materials for centers and study groups to run Module 1 of the Buddhist Mind Science course:

• Course Manual
• Facilitator Guide for Modules 1-7
• PowerPoint Slides
• Quizzes