Our teachings are now available as a podcast!
Our teachings are now also available as a podcast. You can download them from your favorite podcast provider or directly from our podcast page, Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcasts.
The Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s spiritual director, John Bruna, offers practical guidance on the mental tools that one uses to engage in Dharma practice. He gives guidance on how to find balance between our formal practice and being engaged in daily life. He also explains how we can integrate Dharma practice into all of…
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna offers commentary on the text Approaching Buddhism by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John clarifies the technical aspects of the two aims and four reliances as described in the Tibetan Buddhist Lam Rim teachings. He also answers questions about dependent arising and causal dependency…
John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, offers daily and weekly guidance for those people interested in cultivating genuine happiness by following the wisdom and compassion of Buddhism. In this session, he gives a powerful teaching on the different motivations for different levels of practitioners. He gives commentary on the…
John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, offers a teaching on the different scopes of practice as discussed in Tibetan Buddhism.
John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, provides insightful instruction on the eighth verse of mind training. He illuminates how our motivations are key in drawing distinctions between actions based in the eight worldly concerns or actions that are authentic Dharma.
The Way of Compassion Dharma Center spiritual director, John Bruna, helps us understand and integrate teachings on cultivating love and compassion for those individuals who have hurt us deeply. He illuminates how engaging in a relationship with a transactional mindset sets us up for suffering and how our expectations of others should be realistic. John…
John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, offers a teaching and guidance on the fifth verse of the eight verses of mind training as taught in Tibetan Buddhism. Whenever others out of jealousy, mistreat me with abuse, slander, and so on, I will practice accepting defeat, and offering the victory…
John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, offers commentary and guidance on the third verse of the Eight Verses of Mind Training. In all actions I will observe my mind And the moment a disturbing emotion arises Endangering myself and others I will firmly confront and avert it. John offers…
John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, offers guidance and clarity on the second of eight verses of Mind Training. Whenever I am with others I will practice seeing myself as the lowest of all And from the very depth of my heart I will respectfully hold others as supreme….
In this session, John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, offers a helpful modern perspective on the Eight Verses of Mind Training as presented in the Tibetan Buddhist lineages. He specifically speaks about how recognizing other sentient beings as precious for our journey to spiritual awakening. With the thought of…
