Foundations of Buddhist Practice: Karma
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.
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Lamrim: Stages of the Path to Enlightenment – Session 24
Way of Compassion Foundation Dharma Talk facilitated by John Bruna. This is the 24th session in a series of teachings on the Lamrim, Stages of the Path to Enlightenment. The topic is equalizing and exchange self for others method of cultivating bodhcitta. The Dharma teachings are hosted by the Way of Compassion Dharma Center in Carbondale,…
Approaching Buddhism: Compassion, Loving-kindness, and Forgiveness
The Way of Compassion Dharma Center spiritual director, John Bruna, helps us understand and integrate teachings on cultivating love and compassion for those individuals who have hurt us deeply. He illuminates how engaging in a relationship with a transactional mindset sets us up for suffering and how our expectations of others should be realistic. John…
How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Impermanence as an Antidote to Attachment
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.
Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature: Four Attributes of the Second Noble Truth
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna gives a teaching on the 4 attributes of the Second Noble Truth, as presented in the text “Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature,” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John discusses the various ways ignorance, craving and karma create suffering in our lives. He emphasizes…
Seven Point Mind Training – Session 1
. Our Way of Compassion Foundation Dharma regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This teaching is the first session in a series of teachings on Seven-Point Mind Training. The teaching took place on March 8,2017 at our center in Carbondale, CO. Our teachings are always offered freely. If you would like to make a…
Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature: The Six Perfections
In this session, Spiritual Director John Bruna talks about the path of a bodhisattva as the six perfections of generosity, ethics, patience, joyous effort, concentration, and wisdom. He also translates these perfections into a variety of different practices that can meet us where we are right now regardless of our scope of motivation within the…
