Author: Aaron

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna discusses the subject of Bodhicitta, also known as Great Compassion in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues to give his commentary on the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path”. The section of the text that he discusses is focused on the four doors to downfalls which are: not knowing, carelessness, lack of respect, and delusions.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna offers a clarifying commentary on the benefits of Ethics in our lives and specifically on the path to Enlightenment. He describes how ethics paves the way for deeper states of concentration and eventual realization of emptiness that will free us from Samsara.

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.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna focuses in on the antidotes to suffering. He presents a commentary that invites us to bring practical practices into our daily lives to slowly yet consistently erode misperceptions that lie at the root of our dissatisfaction and stresses.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna offers commentary on the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path”. This talk focuses on the third noble truth, which is the reality that samsara can be healed from the root through the medicine of wisdom. True cessation is the Buddhist promise of complete freedom…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna discusses what it means to have a meaningful death. He includes a description of the 8 phases of dissolution as taught in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and also describes his personal experience of attending to his teacher Geshe Gyeltsen’s transition and some of the signs of high accomplishment…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues to comment on the Text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path” by offering clear guidance and commentary on the Six factors that cause delusions to arise.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna gives a talk on how Impermanence is a remedy for attachment. He offers practical practices we can engage in to take the sting out of the pain caused by attachment without developing feelings of dissociation or disconnection.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna offers a dharma talk on the antidotes to attachment by thoroughly illustrating how we misperceive the source of our happiness in the things and people that are outside of ourselves, and create the causes for suffering by pursuing these things that can never offer us lasting happiness.