How To Practice – Session 11

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues his commentary on overcoming the 5 hindrances as presented in the text “Following in the Buddha’s Footsteps” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron.

In this episode, John begins his commentary on a new text that was written as a collaborative effort by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John offers helpful ways to understand the Buddhist view on the Self by investigating these two questions: Does the self exist and is there a beginning to…

In this session, John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, offers a helpful modern perspective on the Eight Verses of Mind Training as presented in the Tibetan Buddhist lineages. He specifically speaks about how recognizing other sentient beings as precious for our journey to spiritual awakening. With the thought of…

In this session, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center John Bruna, offers commentary on the primary cause and secondary conditions for Enlightenment.

  The Way of Compassion Dharma Center is focused on the foundations of Buddhist Practice. Though our primary lineage is Tibetan Buddhism, we offer teachings that nurture the foundational aspects of the Buddhist path. In this session, John Bruna continues to teach on the Lam Rim (Graduated Stages on the Path to Enlightenment) and the…

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.