Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature: The Seven Forms of Arrogance

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna offers a variety of techniques for developing equanimity for three different categories of people: Friends, enemies, and strangers. He describes how to meet ourselves where we are at and encourages us to expand our circle of loving care to those who are strangers or who have harmed us.

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 – 1419)….

Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. John is currently teaching the text, Seven-Point Mind Training by Chekawa Yeshe Dorje. In this session, John continues teaching on the Seventh Point, The Practices of Training the Mind. Our teachings are always offered freely. If you would like to make a…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna illuminates important distinctions between conventional reality and ultimate reality known as the “Two Truths”. He describes these two truths in detail and shows how they are not separate thus steering us away from a nihilistic view and towards the middle way view of dependent origination.

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 topic of the teachings is the role of meditation in the context of the Three Higher Trainings. The date of this teaching was on April 13, 2016. The teachings…

  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.