How To Practice – Session 11

Way of Compassion Foundation Dharma Talk facilitated by John Bruna. This is the 25th session in a series of teachings on the Lamrim, Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. The topic is aspiring and engaged bodhicitta. The Dharma teachings are hosted by the Way of Compassion Dharma Center in Carbondale, Colorado. The date of this teaching…

John Bruna, of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, teaches on the Noble Eightfold Path. These teachings are the path to Liberation. John teaches in a practical and accessible way encouraging us to take our practice into daily life. This session touches on the Three Higher Trainings that can be further described as the Noble…

In this session, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center John Bruna, offers commentary on the primary cause and secondary conditions for Enlightenment.

In this session, John Bruna continues to teach from the text “Approaching Buddhism” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John offers a variety of accurate perspectives that act as antidotes to our mentally afflicted states. He also speaks about how important context and integration are for our rituals, meditation practices, and…

  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, of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, continues the discussion of the Lam Rim teachings within Tibetan Buddhism. These teachings are the graduated stages on the path to Enlightenment. In this session, John teaches about the final of the preparatory practices and then moves into the first topic of analytical meditation, the…