Wheel Turning Day

Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This teaching is the 12th session in a series of teachings on Seven-Point Mind Training.  The teaching includes the practice of tonglen and took place on May 24, 2017 at our center in Carbondale, CO. Our teachings are always offered freely. If…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues his commentary on the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path.” He discusses how renunciation is a gateway to great compassion, also known as “bodhicitta” in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

  John Bruna continues to teach on the six perfections. Generosity, ethics, patience, joyous effort, concentration, and wisdom. These practices coupled with the motivation of Bodhicitta are the practices of a Bodhisattva.

John Bruna, Spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, offers practical and powerful guidance on Buddhist mind training. He describes how our suffering doesn’t so much come from the events of life, but rather from how we relate to the events in our lives. John introduces many ways that we can cultivate the…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna talks about how bodhicitta is the foundation of the Mahayana path of Buddhism. He spends time during this teaching speaking about the benefits of great compassion that engages in actions to free all sentient beings from samsara.