How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Attachment

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Attachment

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna offers a clarifying talk that centers around one of the root mental afflictions described in Tibetan Buddhism. He helps us identify and understand the mental affliction of attachment so we can work to slowly undermine its presence in our mind stream. John encourages us to practice appreciating the…

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Origins of Suffering

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Origins of Suffering

In this Session, spiritual director John Bruna discusses the deepest roots of suffering. He talks about how the views we hold of ourselves are out of alignment with the way that we actually exist, and this leads to a suffering experience dominated by mental afflictions. John offers a variety of practical ways to unravel the…

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Suffering and Renunciation

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Suffering and Renunciation

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna continues his guidance of the Path to Awakening through a discussion of the 8 different types of suffering. These analytical meditations are an important step on the journey of cultivating renunciation and truly appreciating the joys in one’s life, knowing that they will all come to an end…

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Exploring the Stages of Practice

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Exploring the Stages of Practice

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna offers a teaching on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment by discussing a few analytical meditations and how we can integrate and engage with them in our active lives. He first lays a framework of understanding the different scopes of practice by describing 4 different intentions that…

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Understanding Karma

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Understanding Karma

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna gives guidance on understanding actions and their consequences, known as Karma. In the Buddhist worldview, Karma is an underlying natural law of reality that is complex and difficult to know. John offers a clear and simple framework for understanding karma and the 4 aspects that provide the framework…

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Karma

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Karma

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues his commentary on the Text, “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path” by Kathleen McDonald. John lays a foundation for his teaching on the 4 fundamental general characteristics of Karma and covers the first of these characteristics. He offers a helpful inroad to the reality…

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Refuge in Reality

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Refuge in Reality

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna helps us understand what it means to take refuge in the teachings of the awakened ones. He talks about how what we are really taking refuge in is the Dharma, which are teachings that ultimately lead us to know reality as it is. John distills the journey to…

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Karma

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Karma

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna unpacks the complicated Buddhist understanding of Karma. His practical approach gives us an easy entrance into engaging with these teachings and clears away many obstacles that our Western minds create around actions and their consequences. We are left with a sense of empowerment to engage in healthy actions…