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Retreat Dharma Talks

FIMC Monday Night Talks

2013-07-01 (3895 days) Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

  
2021-11-23 Navigating the Holiday Season 25:33
Brian Lesage
This talks offers a brief reflection on navigating the holiday season by discovering the doorway of Pausing.
2021-12-06 Dharma Practice & Writing with the author Ruth Ozeki 1:14:10
Brian Lesage
This presentation is from guest teacher Ruth Ozeki in which she shares about her new book "The Book of Form and Emptiness" and about the intersection of Dharma Practice and Writing
2021-12-13 Opening the Heart with Humility 31:48
Brian Lesage
2021-12-21 Winter Solstice: Beginning Again with Meditation 64:23
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on honoring the Winter Solstice through beginning our path again with preliminary instructions on Insight meditation. The talk is followed by a 30 minute guided meditation.
2021-12-28 The Skill of Noticing What Else is Here 33:38
Brian Lesage
This talk explores learning the skill of using the question: What else is here supporting me? The talk is in honor of Etty Hillesum.
2022-02-01 Stepping Out of Human-Centric Perception and into Kinship 57:14
Brian Lesage
2022-02-08 Inspirations from the Maha Gosinga Sutta 35:14
Brian Lesage
Here is the program that I referred to in the Dharma talk: https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/course/developing-the-foundations-of-practice-3-cohorts-2/
2022-03-08 Broadening Our Practice of the Dharma 33:40
Brian Lesage
2022-03-15 Language, the Sacred, & the Dharma 30:25
Brian Lesage
2022-04-19 Friendship, Community, and Navigating Criticism 33:45
Brian Lesage
2022-05-03 Being Aligned with the Dharma & Ecological Perception 67:31
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on interweaving elements of ecological perception with the practice of the Dharma. It is followed by a guided meditation.
2022-05-10 The Weight of the World is Love: The Transforming Power of Compassion 55:52
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the practice of Compassion and is followed by a guided meditation
2022-05-24 Wholeheartedly Connecting through Overcoming Ill Will 24:33
Brian Lesage
2022-06-07 Abiding and Residing in the Practice of the Dharma 29:04
Brian Lesage
2022-06-21 Contentment 45:06
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the heart quality of contentment and then offers a guided meditation along this theme.
2022-08-02 Expanding Our Sense of What It Means to Practice the Dharma 33:05
Brian Lesage
2022-08-09 And The Buddha Cried 35:29
Brian Lesage
2022-08-23 Letting Go: Learning to Set Aside 37:26
Brian Lesage
2022-10-04 Learning from Nature: Ecological Intimacy and Equanimity 31:59
Brian Lesage
2022-10-18 There's a Bluebird in My Heart 26:36
Brian Lesage
2022-12-20 The Coming Out of Nowhere Moment 33:08
Brian Lesage
2023-01-10 Noticing the Strands of Experience 31:26
Brian Lesage
2023-01-17 Inspiration & Martin Luther King 24:26
Brian Lesage
2023-01-31 A Moment of Kindness 34:39
Brian Lesage
2023-02-07 Expanding Joy 30:26
Brian Lesage
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