How To Practice – Session 7
In this session, John continues in the text ‘How To Practice’ by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. John spends some time expanding on ethical discipline and speaks about the importance of finding a qualified teacher.
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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…
The Five Powers – A Synthesis of Dharma Practice
Way of Compassion Foundation Dharma Talk facilitated by John Bruna. The Dharma teachings are hosted by the Way of Compassion Dharma Center in Carbondale, Colorado. The date of this teaching was on May 18, 2016. The teachings are always offered freely. If you would like to make a secure, tax-deductible donation to support the teachings, please…
How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Disadvantages of Self-Centeredness
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna gives his commentary on the disadvantages of self-centeredness. He gives a variety of practical techniques to slowly overcome this habitual pattern through recognizing more accurately how we exist in the world. John also mentions that the more we can come to know our Buddha Nature and be guided…
Approaching Buddhism: Healthy Expectation and Proper Practice
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna gives a talk on some healthy expectations for our Dharma practice and how a balanced practice maintains an enthusiastic effort coupled with relaxation and patience. He also talks about how meditation is a process of becoming familiar with our minds and how slow and consistent meditation practice leads…
How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: The 4 Thoughts that Turn the Mind to Dharma
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 Kathleen McDonald. John discusses the very foundation of Buddha Dharma practice by discussing and adding clarity to the preliminary practices known as the “4 thoughts that turn the mind to…
Lam Rim Teachings: Scopes of practice
John Bruna and the Way of Compassion Dharma Center are delighted to be offering a series of traditional Tibetan Buddhist teachings on the Lam Rim also known as the ‘Graduated Stages on the Path to Enlightenment’. In this session, John offers commentary on different stages of practice and motivations. Specifically, John speaks about dying…
