The Five Powers – Session 1
John Bruna presents the mind training of the Five Powers that are found within the larger text of the Seven-Point Mind Training. The five powers are the synthesis for practice for one life.
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Seven Point Mind Training – Session 34
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…
How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Four Doors to Downfalls
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues to give his commentary on the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path”. The section of the text that he discusses is focused on the four doors to downfalls which are: not knowing, carelessness, lack of respect, and delusions.
Approaching Buddhism: Compassion, Loving-kindness, and Forgiveness
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…
Approaching Buddhism: Proper Practice
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna discusses the topic of blessings in Tibetan Buddhism. He speaks about how blessings are received through the dependent origination of teachings of Holy beings and our practice. John tells some stories of his teachers and how they have guided him to understand that one main way we receive…
Seven-Point Mind Training – Session 7
Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This teaching is the 7th session in a series of teachings on Seven-Point Mind Training. It is on the second point, Consider the World as Dreamlike. The teaching took place on April 19, 2017 at our center in Carbondale, CO. Our teachings are…
Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature: The Six Perfections
In this session, Spiritual Director John Bruna talks about the path of a bodhisattva as the six perfections of generosity, ethics, patience, joyous effort, concentration, and wisdom. He also translates these perfections into a variety of different practices that can meet us where we are right now regardless of our scope of motivation within the…
