Foundations of Buddhist Practice: Becoming a Qualified Disciple

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 only to teachings that don’t resonate with us but also open-minded to traditions we don’t follow. Just because someone isn’t following the same path, it doesn’t mean that they won’t get to the same destination.