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Way of Compassion Dharma Center

John Bruna

215 episodes

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In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna offers a clarifying commentary on the benefits of ethics in our lives and specifically on the path to Enlightenment. He describes how ethics paves the way for deeper states of concentration and eventual realization of emptiness that will free us from Samsara. This episode was recorded on September 3rd, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbondale, Colorado, the Way of Compassion Dharma center's primary obje...

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In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna offers a clarifying commentary on the benefits of ethics in our lives and specifically on the path to Enlightenment. He describes how ethics paves the way for deeper states of concentration and eventual realization of emptiness that will free us from Samsara. This episode was recorded on September 3rd, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbondale, Colorado, the Way of Compassion Dharma center's primary obje...

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Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 34 - The Benefits of Ethics

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna offers a clarifying commentary on the benefits of ethics in our lives and specifically on the path to Enlightenment. He describes how ethics paves the way for deeper states of concentration and eventual realization of emptiness that will free us from Samsara. This episode was recorded on September 3rd, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbondale, Colorado, the Way of Compassion Dharma center's primary obje...

4 days ago

41 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 33 - The Three Higher Trainings

In this episode, 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. This episode was recorded on August 27th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbondale, Colorado, the Way of Compa...

1 week ago

46 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 32 - Antidotes to Suffering

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna focuses in on the antidotes to suffering. He presents a commentary that invites us to bring practical practices into our daily lives to slowly yet consistently erode misperceptions that lie at the root of our dissatisfaction and stresses. This episode was recorded on August 20th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbondale, Colorado, the Way of Compassion Dharma center's primary objective is to provide prog...

2 weeks ago

40 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 31 - True Cessation

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna offers commentary on the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path.” This talk focuses on the third noble truth, which is the reality that samsara can be healed from the root through the medicine of wisdom. True cessation is the Buddhist promise of complete freedom from suffering and is achieved through the path of awakening. This episode was recorded on August 13th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in C...

2 weeks ago

46 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 30 - A Meaningful Death

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna discusses what it means to have a meaningful death. He includes a description of the 8 phases of dissolution as taught in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition and also describes his personal experience of attending to his teacher Geshe Gyeltsen’s transition and some of the signs of high accomplishment he witnessed at his time of death. This episode was recorded on August 6th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carb...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 2 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 29 - Six Factors that Cause Delusions

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna continues to comment on the Text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path” by offering clear guidance and commentary on the Six factors that cause delusions to arise. This episode was recorded on July 30th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbondale, Colorado, the Way of Compassion Dharma center's primary objective is to provide programs of Buddhist studies and practices that are practical, accessible,...

1 month ago

50 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 28 - Impermanence as an Antidote to Attachment

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna gives a talk on how Impermanence is a remedy for attachment. He offers practices we can engage in to take the sting out of the pain caused by attachment without developing feelings of dissociation or disconnection. This episode was recorded on July 23rd, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbondale, Colorado, the Way of Compassion Dharma center's primary objective is to provide programs of Buddhist studies a...

1 month ago

48 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 27 - Antidotes to Attachment

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna offers a dharma talk on the antidotes to attachment by thoroughly illustrating how we misperceive the source of our happiness in the things and people that are outside of ourselves and create the causes for suffering by pursuing these things that can never offer us lasting happiness. This episode was recorded on July 16th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbondale, Colorado, the Way of Compassion Dharma c...

1 month ago

51 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 26 - People Are Mirrors

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna continues his commentary on the text, "How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path". He explores the topic of how other people are mirrors, showing us our own mental afflictions. John skillfully guides us to understand that our interactions and perceptions of others are actually showing us our own mind. This episode was recorded on July 9th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbondale, Colorado, the Way of Co...

2 months ago

50 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 25 - Reflect on Karma

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna gives a dharma teaching on the importance of reflecting on karma and clarifies many misconceptions that arise from the complex web of actions and their consequences. He folds in an important dynamic of how mental afflictions and karma interrelate and how we can make wise decisions about our actions in response to the events of life. This episode was recorded on July 2nd, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located ...

2 months ago

51 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 24 - Antidotes to Anger

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna continues his commentary on the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path” by offering guidance on the antidotes to anger. He helps us come to a clear understanding about the common misconceptions of justified anger based on the Buddhist understanding of anger as one of the three root poisons that harm ourselves and others. This episode was recorded on June 25th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbo...

2 months ago

1 hour 5 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 23 - Disadvantages of Delusions

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna speaks about the disadvantages of delusions and helps us understand how delusions give rise to destructive emotions. He offers finely tuned clarification about afflictive emotions and how we can recognize these emotions as valid experiences while maintaining the understanding that they lead to harmful behaviors for ourselves and others. This episode was recorded on June 18th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located i...

3 months ago

46 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 22 - Deluded Doubt

In this episode, 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. He distinguishes between having an inquisitive mind and a healthy sense of skepticism, versus being close-minded and maintaining a false presumption of knowledge. This episode was recorded on June 11th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbon...

3 months ago

39 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 21 - Arrogance

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna continues to offer his commentary on the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path” by discussing arrogance, which is one of the six root mental afflictions. The group considers various ways arrogance can separate us from others and lead to suffering, and the important distinction is made between genuine self-worth and deluded arrogance or pride. This episode was recorded on June 4th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Pod...

3 months ago

46 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 20 - Anger

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna continues to offer his commentary on the text “How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path” by discussing anger; one of the three root mental afflictions. He reviews common scenarios in which anger arises, distinguishing between primary causes and secondary conditions so that we may work to dismantle the causes of anger in ourselves over time. This episode was recorded on May 28th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Locat...

4 months ago

29 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 19 - Attachment

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna offers a clarifying talk that centers around one of the root mental afflictions described in Tibetan Buddhism. He helps us identify and understand the mental affliction of attachment so we can work to slowly undermine its presence in our mind stream. John encourages us to practice appreciating the nice people and things in our lives while recognizing the truth that they are not the source of our happiness. What matters most is how we engage with ...

4 months ago

52 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 18 - Origins of Suffering

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna discusses the deepest roots of suffering. He talks about how the views we hold of ourselves are out of alignment with the way that we actually exist, and this leads to a suffering experience dominated by mental afflictions. John offers a variety of practical ways to unravel the mental afflictions in our minds, inching us closer to the realization of Emptiness and Enlightenment. This episode was recorded on May 14th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Co...

4 months ago

47 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 17 - Suffering and Renunciation

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna continues his guidance of the Path to Awakening through a discussion of the 8 different types of suffering. These analytical meditations are an important step on the journey of cultivating renunciation and truly appreciating the joys in one's life, knowing that they will all come to an end one day. This episode was recorded on May 7th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbondale, Colorado, the Way of Compas...

5 months ago

56 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 16 - Exploring the Stages of Practice

In this episode, 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 lie at the root of a Dharma practitioner’s motivation. This episode was recorded on April 30th, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Loc...

5 months ago

56 minutes

Way of Compassion Dharma Center

How to Meditate on the Stages of the Path 15 - Purification

In this episode, spiritual director John Bruna illuminates the practice of purifying negative karma. He unpacks the 4 opponent powers of Regret, Reliance, Remedial Action, and Resolve and gives a variety of meaningful and practical methods for engaging with this powerful practice. This episode was recorded on April 23rd, 2025. Welcome to the Way of Compassion Dharma Center Podcast. Located in Carbondale, Colorado, the Way of Compassion Dharma center's primary objective is to provide programs ...

5 months ago

59 minutes