Seven Point Mind Training – Point 6 – The Pledges

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna covers one of the meditation methods for cultivating Bodhicitta known as Equalizing oneself with others. He offers approachable steps for engaging in the brief and extensive versions of this meditation that encourage the core motivation of the Mahayana path.

Our Way of Compassion Dharma Center’s regular Wednesday teaching facilitated by John Bruna. This teaching is the 7th session in a series of teachings on Seven-Point Mind Training. It is on the second point, Consider the World as Dreamlike. The teaching took place on April 19, 2017 at our center in Carbondale, CO. Our teachings are…

John Bruna, of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, teaches on the Noble Eightfold Path. These teachings are the path to Liberation. John teaches in a practical and accessible way encouraging us to take our practice into daily life. This session touches on the Three Higher Trainings that can be further described as the Noble…

  John Bruna continues to offer commentary and guidance on the teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama from the text ‘How To Practice’. John has a skill of relating these teachings to our western minds and practicing in daily modern life. This is session 18 in this series.

John Bruna, Spiritual Director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, continues to offer commentary and guidance on the text “Approaching Buddhism” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron. John brings the teachings of training the mind right into our daily lives in this session focused on working with afflictions in our…

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…