How To Practice – Session 17
John Bruna dives into the text ‘How To Practice’ by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In this session, John adds commentary on the practice of calm abiding / Shamatha meditation.
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Seven-Point Mind Training – Session 23
Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This session is focused on the 4th Point, A Synthesis of Practice for One Life. The teaching took place on September 20, 2017 at our center in Carbondale, CO. Our teachings are always offered freely. If you would like to make a…
How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Antidotes to Attachment
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna offers a dharma talk on the antidotes to attachment by thoroughly illustrating how we misperceive the source of our happiness in the things and people that are outside of ourselves, and create the causes for suffering by pursuing these things that can never offer us lasting happiness.
Right Intention
John Bruna expresses the view of right intention based in renunciation, harmlessness, and goodwill. In this talk, John also describes the importance of Self Compassion in a Dharma practice.
Eightfold Path in Daily Life – Session 7
Way of Compassion Foundation Dharma Talk facilitated by John (Chophel) Bruna. Topic: Eightfold Path in Daily Life – Session Seven. In this session John (Chophel) Bruna covers Right Concentration. The Dharma teachings are hosted by the Way of Compassion Dharma Center in Carbondale, Colorado. The date of this teaching was on January 28, 2015. The teachings…
Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature: The 12 Links of Dependent Origination
In this session, the Way of Compassion Dharma Center director John Bruna gives a Dharma talk about the 12 links of origination. These 12 links describe the how cycle of suffering, known as Samsara, comes into existence, and John describes how the path of Buddhist Dharma can break the link of ignorance setting us free…
The Four Noble Truths: Great Compassion and the Mahayana Path
Spiritual director John Bruna discusses foundational aspects of the Mahayana Path including renunciation and great compassion. He shares practical methods for cultivating stable equanimity that acts as the momentum towards Bodhicitta. John finishes the discussion with a clear description of the two accumulations of spiritual merit and wisdom.
