Challenging Times Offer Opportunity

Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This is the 15th session in a series of teachings by John Bruna on Seven-Point Mind Training hosted by the Way of Compassion Dharma Center in Carbondale, CO USA. This teaching continues on the third point, Using unfavorable circumstances as aids to…

  In this Session, spiritual director John Bruna provides guidance and commentary on the opening remarks of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in the text the Four Noble Truths. John also discusses the importance of recognizing dissatisfaction and its true causes which provide the foundation for making deep radical change to be free from suffering.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna discusses three different types of meditation as discussed in the book “Foundations of Buddhist Practice” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John describes how we can practice objective wisdom meditations, mind transforming subjective meditations, and touches lightly on visualization meditations.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna offers an in-depth perspective of the Buddhist notion of taking refuge. He describes how we are taking refuge in the truth and the supportive structures that allow us to nurture a path of increasing clarity and living in accordance with “the way things are”.

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna continues his guidance of the Path to Awakening through a discussion of the 8 different types of suffering. These analytical meditations are an important step on the journey of cultivating renunciation and truly appreciating the joys in one’s life, knowing that they will all come to an end…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna offers commentary on the text Approaching Buddhism by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John clarifies the technical aspects of the two aims and four reliances as described in the Tibetan Buddhist Lam Rim teachings. He also answers questions about dependent arising and causal dependency…