How To Practice – Session 12

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues his commentary on the Text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path”. He explores the topic of how other people are mirrors showing us our own mental afflictions. John skillfully guides us to understand that our interactions and perceptions of others are actually showing us…

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna gives his final Dharma talk of 2024 and concludes his commentary on the book Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John expands on the Buddhist teaching that our ultimate nature is pure and how that purity is covered over…

  John Bruna continues the discussion on the Three Principle Aspects of the Path: Renunciation, Bodhicitta, and Wisdom. These three aspects are the wish for freedom, the altruistic intention to be of ultimate benefit to others, and the wisdom realizing emptiness. These three were laid forth by the wise and compassionate Je Tsongkhapa (1357 –…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna gives a teaching on the seven forms of arrogance.

  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…

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.