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 6 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 6 The nature of perception focuses on wisdom. It reflects on the meaning of wisdom, its relevance, and how it counteracts the causes of suffering. It goes deeper into the most profound aspect of wisdom: understanding the nature of reality. It concludes with the nature of mind which makes full awakening possible and it is complemented by references to current scientific understanding on wisdom and well-being and the process of perception.

This module contains 6 units:

Unit 1: Creating Realities

Unit 2: Perception and Conditioning

Unit 3: The Nature of Reality

Unit 4: What about My”Self”?

Unit 5: Wisdom Liberates Us from Suffering 

Unit 6: Living Wisdom and Compassion

This package includes the following materials for centers and study groups to run Module 6 of the Buddhist Mind Science course:

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