What does it mean to be a Buddhist? (Session 3)
John Bruna continues to teach on the foundations of Buddhist practice by answering the question, “What does it mean to be a Buddhist? This is the third session that is in this series.
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Approaching Buddhism: Dependent Arising and Emptiness
John Bruna, spiritual director of the Way of Compassion Dharma Center, offers commentary and elaboration on dependent origination and emptiness as presented in the text “Approaching Buddhism” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chödron.
How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Benefits of Cherishing Others
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna gives in-depth commentary and guidance on the benefits of cherishing others. He speaks about how we can engage with cherishing others in wise and compassionate ways that encourage a recognition of the reality of interdependence while maintaining healthy self-care that will keep us fueled up for the journey…
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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.
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In this session, spiritual director John Bruna comes to the culminating phase of the seven-point cause and result for cultivating bodhichitta. This seventh and final point, which is developing the motivation of bodhichitta, is the result of the previous 6 points that were covered in detail over the past several dharma talks. Bodhichitta is the…
Seven-Point Mind Training – Nov 12, 2014
Way of Compassion Foundation Dharma Talk facilitated by John (Chophel) Bruna. Topic: Point 7 of the Seven-Point Mind Training. We are using the text of the same name written by B. Alan Wallace. In this talk, John covers the following: Cultivate the absence of three degenerations Be endowed with the three inseparables Always meditate on…
How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path: Mamaste
In this session, spiritual director John Bruna continues to give commentary on the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path”. He unpacks the first two points in the seven-fold cause and effect, focused on the cultivation of bodhicitta.
