How To Practice – Session 15
John Bruna continues to offer commentary and guidance on the text How To Practice by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In this session, John speaks about the Bodhisattva commitment and the six perfections.
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In this session, spiritual director John Bruna offers important contemplations about the rarity of our precious human life. He gives guidance on how we can engage with meditations on this topic and saturate our hearts and minds with this true perspective. John then describes how a correct understanding of the rarity of our current situation…
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. Our Way of Compassion Foundation Dharma regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This teaching is the first session in a series of teachings on Seven-Point Mind Training. The teaching took place on March 8,2017 at our center in Carbondale, CO. Our teachings are always offered freely. If you would like to make a…
The Six Perfections: Timeless Tools for a Meaningful Life
A Half-Day Retreat with John Bruna Sunday, August 10th from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm IN PERSON & ON ZOOM Join us for a transformative workshop with John Bruna, spiritual director and primary teacher at the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, on the Six Perfections (Pāramitās)—a foundational framework of the Bodhisattva path in Mahāyāna Buddhism. These…
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In this session, spiritual director John Bruna offers a clarifying talk that centers around one of the root mental afflictions described in Tibetan Buddhism. He helps us identify and understand the mental affliction of attachment so we can work to slowly undermine its presence in our mind stream. John encourages us to practice appreciating the…
Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature: Misperception
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna begins a series of teachings that will give an in-depth view of the 12 links of dependent origination. He spends this session talking about the first link, defined as ignorance or misperception, that is specifically an inaccurate way of perceiving ourselves as independent and inherently existent.
