How To Practice – Session 12

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 offers a teaching about becoming a qualified disciple so that our practice and teacher/disciple relationship will bear fruit. He speaks about how one needs to be unprejudiced, intelligent, and interested when listening to and studying the Buddha’s teachings. John also speaks about the need to be open-minded not…

John Bruna, spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, continues to offer commentary and guidance on the text “Approaching Buddhism” by Venerable Thubten Chödron and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In this session, John gives clarity of what Buddhism understands as the self. Following reasoning and discerning wisdom, John describes the process of…

  John Bruna, of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, continues to guide and offer commentary on the Lam Rim Teachings of Tibetan Buddhism. Lam Rim is the graduated stages on the path to Enlightenment. In this session, John speaks about Karma and the conditions of attaining a precious human rebirth.

John Bruna, spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, begins a new series of teachings on Approaching Buddhism. This series is based on the text composed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chödron.

Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This teaching is the 12th session in a series of teachings on Seven-Point Mind Training.  The teaching includes the practice of tonglen and took place on May 24, 2017 at our center in Carbondale, CO. Our teachings are always offered freely. If…