Dharma Teachings

In this session, spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center John Bruna, gives clear instructions on how to relate to karma in a helpful and productive way.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues to offer commentary on the text, “Foundations of Buddhist Practice” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John gives a clarifying teaching on the Buddhist view of the nature of mind.

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, spiritual director John Bruna discusses the importance of integrating the Lam Rim topics into our lives. He advises on how to go through the 3 levels of learning with the variety of analytical meditations that are found in the stages of the path to Enlightenment.

In this Session, spiritual director John Bruna continues on the theme of meditation by teaching about how to structure a meditation session by first engaging in the 6 preparatory practices. He also answers questions about how we can cultivate good habits and avoid bad habits in our meditation practice.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna discusses three different types of meditation as discussed in the book “Foundations of Buddhist Practice” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John describes how we can practice objective wisdom meditations, mind transforming subjective meditations, and touches lightly on visualization meditations.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna discusses how to structure a meditation session to have it be an effective practice that can transform our Dharma practice into the entirety of our life.

John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, begins this Dharma talk by answering many questions from students. He then continues teaching on the qualities of a student that bring us into healthy relationships with our teachers to derive the most benefit from our spiritual friends.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna offers a teaching about becoming a qualified disciple so that our practice and teacher/disciple relationship will bear fruit. He speaks about how one needs to be unprejudiced, intelligent, and interested when listening to and studying the Buddha’s teachings. John also speaks about the need to be open-minded not…

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna centers a discussion around how important it is for us to choose our spiritual mentors wisely. He gives clarity on what qualities we need to look for when choosing to follow a spiritual mentor and what a healthy Guru/Disciple relationship looks like.