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 5 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:
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 5 Wise paths to the heart focuses on cultivating warmheartedness and prosocial attitudes, which are essential for human evolution, well-being, and flourishing. It presents the four immeasurable attitudes of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity, as drawn from the Buddhist tradition, and explores the mind of awakening, which embraces all sentient beings. It is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on the nature and biological basis of altruism, empathy, compassion, and self-compassion.
This module contains 6 units:
Unit 1: Warmheartedness as a Source of Well-Being
Unit 2: To Care for Yourself, to Care for Others
Unit 3: The Four Immeasurables
Unit 4: Warm Heart Fitness
Unit 5: The Mind of Awakening
Unit 6: Alchemy of the Heart
This package includes the following materials for centers and study groups to run Module 5 of the Buddhist Mind Science course:
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