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 2 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 2 Transforming the mind to cultivate lasting happiness explores what meditation is and focuses on calming the mind and refining attention with the breath, a healthy emotional life, and enhancing wholesome emotions and mental states as first foundations for cultivating lasting happiness. It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on attention training, well-being, empathy, and emotions.

This module contains 6 units:

Unit 1: Settling the Mind and Focusing Attention with the Breath

Unit 2: Analytical Meditation

Unit 3: Working with Emotions

Unit 4: Emotions and Afflictions

Unit 5: A Healthy Emotional Life

Unit 6: Bringing the Practice to Daily Life

This package includes the following materials for centers and study groups to run Module 2 of the Buddhist Mind Science course:

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