Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature: The Seven Forms of Arrogance

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna illuminates important distinctions between conventional reality and ultimate reality known as the “Two Truths”. He describes these two truths in detail and shows how they are not separate thus steering us away from a nihilistic view and towards the middle way view of dependent origination.

  John Bruna continues to teach on the six perfections. Generosity, ethics, patience, joyous effort, concentration, and wisdom. These practices coupled with the motivation of Bodhicitta are the practices of a Bodhisattva.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna deepens his commentary on the Eight Worldly Dharmas by focusing in on Gain and Loss. He offers a wise and gentle approach to investigating our own behaviors to see how much of our time is spent trying to get what we want. John reminds us that getting what…

In this session, John Bruna goes through the Third Noble Truth and starts into the Fourth Noble Truth, the path that leads to liberation. In this text, His Holiness presents the path as the Three Higher Trainings of ethics, concentration, and wisdom.

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, spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, offers commentary and closing remarks of the text “The Four Noble Truths” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. John speaks about the importance and transformation that can occur by deeply understanding and practicing the 4 noble truths. He also speaks in specific about the…