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.
Our Way of Compassion Foundation Dharma regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This teaching on the perfection of concentration took place on February 1,2017 at our center in Carbondale, CO. The teachings are always offered freely. If you would like to make a secure, tax-deductible donation to support the teachings, please click on the…
John Bruna, Spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, continues his commentary on compassion. John speaks about the many ways that compassion shows up in our lives and offers valuable understanding about the differences of compassion and empathy. John also speaks about how living in reality (wisdom) is such a powerful way to…
John Bruna, spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Foundation, offers commentary and guidance in the final section of the text “The Four Noble Truths” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. John covers the topic of different paths within the Tibetan Buddhist context focusing on the Bodhisattva Yana and Vajrayana.
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, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center John Bruna, offers commentary on the primary cause and secondary conditions for Enlightenment.
Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This is the 19th session in a series of teachings by John Bruna on Seven-Point Mind Training. This teaching continues on the third point, using unfavorable circumstances as aids to awakening, focusing on “blaming everything on one thing.” The teaching took place…