The Six Perfections – Session 2

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna speaks about the disadvantages of delusions and helps us understand how delusions give rise to destructive emotions. He offers finely tuned clarification about afflictive emotions and how we can recognize these emotions as valid experience while maintaining the understanding that they lead to harmful behaviors for ourselves and…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna gives a recap of the refuge and bodhicitta verse that was discussed over the past two weeks. He then takes time to answer a variety of questions from the sangha.

John Bruna provides commentary on His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s text ‘How To Practice’. In this session, John goes through the practice of reciting the Refuge and Bodhicitta prayer.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna begins teaching on the 16 attributes of the Four Noble Truths, as presented in the Text “Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. He discusses the truth of impermanence and explains how understanding and accepting impermanence can relieve much suffering…