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 4 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 4 Fundamental trainings to cultivate lasting happiness is an introduction to the fundamental practices that Buddhism offers to cultivate the paths that lead to freedom from suffering and its causes. It concludes by presenting the possibility of awakening, the maximum expression of our potential. It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on why is it that we feel unsatisfied, ethics, the development of attention, and wisdom.

This module contains 6 units:

Unit 1: The Possibility of Liberation

Unit 2: Inner Satisfaction

Unit 3: Cultivating Ethics

Unit 4: Cultivating Concentration

Unit 5: Cultivating Wisdom

Unit 6: Expanding It to Others

This package includes the following materials for centers and study groups to run Module 4 of the Buddhist Mind Science course:

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