What does it mean to be a Buddhist? (Session 3)

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues to give his commentary on the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path”. The section of the text that he discusses is focused on the four doors to downfalls which are: not knowing, carelessness, lack of respect, and delusions.

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.

John Bruna, spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, comments on a public talk given by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. John begins by encouraging the study and practice of the Three Principle Aspects of the path. He unpacks His Holiness’s comments that we all have the inborn right to be happy and…

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna gives guidance and a powerful perspective on how liberation is possible through understanding the clear light nature of the mind. He discusses how the afflictions of our mind can be removed and how they don’t taint the nature of the mind which is always pure and virtuous.

John Bruna, the spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, unpacks the Buddhist wisdom of evident objects, obscured objects, and very obscured objects. He gives practical guidance on how we can relate to these philosophical teachings wherever we might be on the path to awakening.

In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues to offer his commentary on the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path” by discussing deluded doubt which is one of the six root mental afflictions.