How To Practice – Session 11

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna unpacks the complicated Buddhist understanding of Karma. His practical approach gives us an easy entrance into engaging with these teachings and clears away many obstacles that our Western minds create around actions and their consequences. We are left with a sense of empowerment to engage in healthy actions…

John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, continues the discussion in the text “Approaching Buddhism” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. In this session, John focuses in on interdependence and the countless causes and conditions that give us the life we have. He discusses how successful…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna discusses what it means to have a meaningful death. He includes a description of the 8 phases of dissolution as taught in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and also describes his personal experience of attending to his teacher Geshe Gyeltsen’s transition and some of the signs of high accomplishment…

John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, begins this Dharma talk by answering many questions from students. He then continues teaching on the qualities of a student that bring us into healthy relationships with our teachers to derive the most benefit from our spiritual friends.

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…

John Bruna teaches on the 5 powers that are in the Seven Point Mind Training. This is described as the synthesis of practice for a single lifetime. These powers are: The power of resolution, the power of familiarity, the white seed, the power of abandonment, and the power of prayer. If you would like to make…