In this session, spiritual director John Bruna discusses the mind’s potential and a variety of obstructions in our minds that prevent us from experiencing our Buddha nature. He also gives helpful and practical advice on how we can cultivate our minds in order to reveal more and more the deepest potential of our Buddha nature.
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…
John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, continues the discussion in the text “Approaching Buddhism” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. In this session, John focuses in on interdependence and the countless causes and conditions that give us the life we have. He discusses how successful…
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna brings clarity and important distinctions regarding the Eight Worldly Dharmas. He guides us to understand and recognize these Worldly Dharmas in our lives and gives clarity on how we can be sure that when these arise we can practice in a way that leads to liberation.
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna dives deeper into the perfection of wisdom within the Mahayana path of Tibetan Buddhism. He skillfully presents how our misperception of reality is the root of our suffering and then offers a variety of practices as methods for slowly clarifying our view of reality and thus relieving suffering…
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues his guidance and commentary with the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path”. His encouragement for this text is for us to investigate and meditate upon each topic of discussion for the week to gain further understanding and realization of the Stages of the…
Way of Compassion Foundation Dharma Talk facilitated by John (Chophel) Bruna. This is the eighth session of a series of teachings on the Lamrim, Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. In this session John covers the topic of the importance of remembering death. The Dharma teachings are hosted by the Way of Compassion Dharma Center in Carbondale,…