How To Practice – Session 17

In this session, John gives a dharma talk on the Buddhist notion of feelings which are the pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral feelings that occur in relation with physical stimulus or mental phenomena. Different than our modern understanding of emotions, this mode of feeling is an important link in the 12 links of dependent origination.

  John Bruna is the spiritual director and teacher at the Way of Compassion Dharma Center. John continues the commentary and unpacking of the wisdom section of the text ‘How To Practice’ by His Holiness the Dalia Lama. This session begins on chapter 9 of the text.

Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This teaching is the 14th session in a series of teachings on Seven-Point Mind Training.  The teaching began the third point (using unfavorable circumstances as aids to awakening) and took place on June 14th, 2017 at our center in Carbondale, CO. Our teachings…

John Bruna continues to teach on the foundations of Buddhist practice by answering the question, “What does it mean to be a Buddhist? This is the third session that is in this series.

  John Bruna, spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, teaches and offers commentary on Karma. This topic is within the small scope of practice within the Lam Rim teachings, and John offers a helpful and clear understanding of karma and the application of virtuous actions in our daily lives.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues his commentary on the Text, “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path” by Kathleen McDonald. John lays a foundation for his teaching on the 4 fundamental general characteristics of Karma and covers the first of these characteristics. He offers a helpful inroad to the reality…