The Five Powers – Session 1

Spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, John Bruna, gives a commentary on the origins of duhkha or dissatisfaction based on a section of text from the book “Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John talks about how our habits driven by misperception can…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna discusses the importance of integrating the Lam Rim topics into our lives. He advises on how to go through the 3 levels of learning with the variety of analytical meditations that are found in the stages of the path to Enlightenment.

  John Bruna, spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Foundation, continues to offer commentary and guidance on the Lam Rim teachings found in the Tibetan Buddhist lineages. In this week’s session, John speaks continues to offer commentary on the 10 non-virtues within the small scope of practice.

  John Bruna continues to speak on the six perfections moving into the development of the perfection of concentration. He discusses how having a conducive environment, strong ethics, and few distractions are key for developing concentration. John also describes the reason for practicing rituals for developing the mind.

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…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna discusses three different types of meditation as discussed in the book “Foundations of Buddhist Practice” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John describes how we can practice objective wisdom meditations, mind transforming subjective meditations, and touches lightly on visualization meditations.