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, 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.

Each Buddhist Mind Science module consists of teachings, meditations and exercises, course manual, and quizzes. Students may do some or all of these components of each module as they wish and are interested. Those who complete all the requirements receive a Certificate of Achievement for that module.

Important information about your order of online materials:

Following your order, you will receive an email with a link to a webpage to download a PDF document which will contain the enrollment key for each module and instructions on how to access the course on the FPMT Online Learning Center.