How To Practice – Session 11

John Bruna finishes a series on the Six Perfections. In this video John relates these perfections and how to apply them to challenging situations.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna speaks about the relationship between ethics, concentration, and wisdom within the Buddhist context of the three higher trainings. He spends much of this session helping us understand how to begin to view things as they really exist without undermining the valid view of our conventional reality.

Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This is the 17th 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…

Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. In this teaching John addresses the difficult times and division we are experiencing through the lens of lojong practice. This is a poignant teaching focusing on how to cultivate love and compassion for those we are challenged by. The teaching took place…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues his commentary on the text “Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John gives clarity on how to identify mental afflictions and how specifically misperception, anger, and attachment impact our experience.

In this episode, John begins his commentary on a new text that was written as a collaborative effort by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John offers helpful ways to understand the Buddhist view on the Self by investigating these two questions: Does the self exist and is there a beginning to…