The Six Perfections – Session 10

Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. John is currently teaching the text, Seven-Point Mind Training by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje. In this session, John continues teaching on the Seventh Point, The Practices of Training the Mind. Our teachings are always offered freely. If you would like to make a…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna gives guidance on understanding actions and their consequences, known as Karma. In the Buddhist worldview, Karma is an underlying natural law of reality that is complex and difficult to know. John offers a clear and simple framework for understanding karma and the 4 aspects that provide the framework…

In this episode, John Bruna offers practical instruction on how to relate to the Buddhist view of Karma (actions and their consequences) in a healthy and practical way.

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 episode, spiritual director John Bruna offers a variety of techniques for developing equanimity for three different categories of people: Friends, enemies, and strangers. He describes how to meet ourselves where we are at and encourages us to expand our circle of loving care to those who are strangers or who have harmed us.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna gives commentary on the second seal of Buddhism. He describes how we experience unsatisfactoriness in life due to karma and mental afflictions. John also discusses how misperception leads to attachment and aversion which turns the wheel of suffering.