This download version of Buddhist Mind Science: Activating Your Potential, an introductory level course, is for FPMT centers and study groups only. It contains all of the program components 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, with a strong experiential component that invites everyone to reflect and check for themselves the different topics presented in the following modules:
1. Cultivating lasting happiness: What Buddhism and science have to say about it is an exploration of purpose in life and what leads to dissatisfaction and suffering, and what to happiness, for oneself and others. It also explores the value of warmheartedness and wisdom, and it lays out the general foundation for the following modules.
2. Transforming the mind to cultivate lasting happiness focuses on meditation, mental balance, and emotions.
3. Getting to know your mind focuses on the mind.
4. Fundamental trainings to cultivate lasting happiness presents the foundations of the Buddhist paths.
5. Wise paths to the heart focuses on warmheartedness.
6. The nature of perception focuses on wisdom.
7. Embodying warmheartedness and wisdom explores how to bring the values of warmheartedness and wisdom into the world.
This package includes materials for centers and study groups to run the program. For each module, there are:
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