Lam Rim: Intermediate stage and the 12 links of dependent origination

The Way of Compassion Dharma Center spiritual director, John Bruna, helps us understand and integrate teachings on cultivating love and compassion for those individuals who have hurt us deeply. He illuminates how engaging in a relationship with a transactional mindset sets us up for suffering and how our expectations of others should be realistic. John…

Way of Compassion Foundation Dharma Talk facilitated by John Bruna. The Dharma teachings are hosted by the Way of Compassion Dharma Center in Carbondale, Colorado. The date of this teaching was on January 27, 2016. The teachings are always offered freely. If you would like to make a secure, tax-deductible donation to support the teachings, please…

  John Bruna continues to offer commentary and guidance on the teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from the text ‘How To Practice’. John has a skill of relating these teachings to our western minds and practicing in daily modern life. This is session 18 in this series.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna discusses what it means to have a meaningful death. He includes a description of the 8 phases of dissolution as taught in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and also describes his personal experience of attending to his teacher Geshe Gyeltsen’s transition and some of the signs of high accomplishment…

John Bruna continues to teach and offer commentary in this the 4th session on the text ‘How To Practice’ by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. In this session John unpacks ethical discipline and the avoidance of the 10 non-virtues.

John Bruna continues teaching on the Five Powers which are the synthesis of practice for a single life. These practices are found within the 7 Point Mind Training. John specifically focuses on the 5th power of prayer in this talk.