Six Perfections – Session 1

John Bruna of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center leads a Dharma talk around the 4 thoughts that turn the mind to Dharma and taking refuge in the Buddhist worldview.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna illuminates important distinctions between conventional reality and ultimate reality known as the “Two Truths”. He describes these two truths in detail and shows how they are not separate thus steering us away from a nihilistic view and towards the middle way view of dependent origination.

  John Bruna, spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Foundation, continues to provide guidance and commentary on the Four Noble Truths. In this session, John dives more deeply into the first nobles truth and the 10 non-virtues.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues to offer his commentary on the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path” by discussing anger which is one of the three root mental afflictions.

Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This is the 16th session in a series of teachings by John Bruna on Seven-Point Mind Training hosted by the Way of Compassion Dharma Center in Carbondale, CO USA. This teaching continues on the third point, Using unfavorable circumstances as aids to…

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna teaches how we can engage with the teachings on Emptiness in a practical and transformative way. He describes various strategies for focusing on reality-based living that will lead to less suffering in our experience. John’s guidance is rooted in the buddhist teachings on Nirvana by way of the…