Brian Lesage's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Brian Lesage  
 
    
        
                            
      Brian Lesage has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1988 and has taught meditation since 2000. He has studied in the Zen, Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism. He was ordained in the Rinzai Zen tradition in 1996. His training in Vipassana Meditation includes doing extended meditation retreats in Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, and India as well as numerous retreats in the U.S. He leads retreats and teaches meditation courses nationwide.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2015-02-14
             Brahma Viharas Day 14 
    
        2021-01-21
            1st Noble Truth: Perceiving our Human Situation in a Liberating Way 
    
        2017-03-13
            A Beginning Taste of Emptiness 
    
        2025-04-22
            A Broader View: What the Leaves Are Teaching 
    
        2021-09-07
            A Deeper Labor of Love 
    
        2023-01-31
            A Moment of Kindness 
    
        2021-10-31
            A Passion For The Path: Falling In Love 
    
        2022-06-07
            Abiding and Residing in the Practice of the Dharma 
    
        2025-08-17
            Allowing our Hearts to Love 
    
        2018-07-07
            AM03-meditation wth songs 
    
        2018-07-07
            AM04-participants sharing experience of meditation with songs- end of am session 
    
        2018-10-15
            Ambivalence 
    
        2024-07-23
            An Introduction to Emptiness 
    
        2022-08-09
            And The Buddha Cried 
    
        2024-12-11
            And the Buddha Cried: Practicing with Loss 
    
        2018-02-19
            Anger/Hatred 
    
        2021-06-16
            Appreciative Joy 
    
        2020-08-24
            Appreciative Joy - Mudita 
    
        2022-01-08
            Appreciative Joy - Mudita: An Introduction and Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-08-20
            Appreciative Joy on Forested Land 
    
        2013-07-29
            Awakening & Mystery 
    
        2025-02-25
            Awakening: Like a Bird Flying in the Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2022-12-03
            Beautiful friendship and friends with the beautiful 
    
        2021-11-06
            Beauty And The Seven Factors Of Awakening 
    
        2025-07-08
            Becoming the River 
    
        2015-01-12
            Beginning Again 
    
        2019-12-30
            Beginning Again 
    
        2021-01-05
            Beginning Again with What is Right Here 
    
        2019-08-19
            Beginning to Know What We Don't Know 
    
        2022-05-03
            Being Aligned with the Dharma & Ecological Perception 
    
        2020-11-30
            Being Deeply Passionate about our Lives & Spiritual Path 
    
        2014-11-25
            Being Somebody And Being Nobody 
    
        2018-11-10
            Being Somebody and Being Nobody 
    
        2021-06-16
            Being Somebody and Being Nobody 
    
        2022-11-05
            Being somebody and being nobody. 
    
        2023-02-28
            Bhavana and the Unfolding of the Dharma Path 
    
        2018-08-06
            Binary Thinking and the Limits of Language 
    
        2012-09-29
            Bodhicitta 
    
        2016-10-04
            Bodhicitta 
    
        2015-02-25
            Brahma Vihara Day 25 
    
        2015-02-05
            Brahma Vihara Practice Day #5: Metta 
    
        2015-02-11
            Brahma Viharas #11 
    
        2017-06-14
            Brief and simple guided meditation for arriving into retreat. 
    
        2019-02-19
            Bringing the Dharma into Our Daily Lives 
    
        2014-12-04
            Bringing the Practice into our Daily Life 
    
        2022-03-08
            Broadening Our Practice of the Dharma 
    
        2022-07-16
            Cittānupassanā practice - practical suggestions on how to engage with and culti… 
    
        2021-10-11
            Climate Change & The Dharma 
    
        2024-05-16
            Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2022-07-18
            Closing Talk 
    
        2019-09-28
            Coming into Presence through Reflecting on Death and Birth 
    
        2021-07-12
            Coming Together Again as Community: Sangha and Place 
    
        2025-03-11
            Compassion: Learning to Love the World 
    
        2019-05-13
            Conceit/Comparing Mind 
    
        2022-06-21
            Contentment 
    
        2017-06-26
            Crossing Over the Flood 
    
        2021-07-19
            Crossing the Flood 
    
        2020-04-13
            Crossroads and the Potential for Transformation or Disintegration 
    
        2018-02-25
            Day 1 Morning Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2019-11-14
            Day 2 Emptiness and Dependent Origination (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-05-24
            Day 2: Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2018-03-16
            Day 20 Brahma Viharas (Retreat at Spirit rock) 
    
        2017-05-25
            Day 3: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-05-26
            Day 4: Instructions and Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-05-27
            Day 5: Metta Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2018-03-02
            Day 6 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2019-11-18
            Day 6: Conventional and Liberating Truths  (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-11-23
            Decolonizing The Mind On Thanksgiving Day 
    
        2022-11-26
            Devotion and reverence 
    
        2014-09-01
            Dharma and Climate Change 
    
        2018-06-14
            Dharma Debate: Samvega versus Softening and Receiving (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2021-12-06
            Dharma Practice & Writing with the author Ruth Ozeki 
    
        2021-06-08
            Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor 
    
        2023-11-23
            Dharma Practice As Offering 
    
        2025-08-08
            Dharma Talk: Learning the Language of the Land Through the Body 
    
        2018-12-10
            Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Perfect 
    
        2018-12-24
            Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Permanent 
    
        2018-12-17
            Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Personal 
    
        2021-01-22
            Discovering Inspiration for our Lives through Wise View 
    
        2024-09-10
            Discovering the Home of the Breath 
    
        2016-04-08
            Easing into the Boundless 
    
        2025-05-20
            Embodiment in a Digital Age: A Return to the Living World 
    
        2017-11-09
            Embodiment Through Mindfulness Of The Body 
    
        2025-09-09
            Entering the Stream of Kindness 
    
        2017-06-14
            Entry Into Emptiness: Honoring and Settling In. 
    
        2021-06-14
            Equanimity 
    
        2023-02-07
            Expanding Joy 
    
        2022-08-02
            Expanding Our Sense of What It Means to Practice the Dharma 
    
        2023-05-02
            Facets of Connection: Being Together and Being Alone 
    
        2020-11-03
            Facing Uncertainty: Allowing Love to to Return in a Different Way 
    
        2012-09-15
            Faith 
    
        2018-11-17
            Faith and Confidence 
    
        2023-10-28
            Falling in love with the four iddhipadas 
    
        2011-06-08
            Family and Lineage on the Spiritual Path 
    
        2020-09-07
            Finding Freedom from Becoming 
    
        2023-06-28
            Forested Land as Dharma Teacher 
    
        2020-08-13
            Foundations for supporting the habit of a daily meditation practice 
    
        2017-11-16
            Freedom From Unworthiness and Becoming. 
    
        2015-02-10
            Freedom From Views: Part 1 
    
        2018-03-20
            Freedom from Views+ Individual & Systemic Views of Practice (Retreat at Spirit … 
    
        2021-06-15
            Freeing Our Hearts through Forgiveness 
    
        2019-10-12
            Freeing the Heart from Implicit Bias 
    
        2022-04-19
            Friendship, Community, and Navigating Criticism 
    
        2018-04-23
            Generosity 
    
        2023-06-30
            Generosity and Compassion for Later Generations 
    
        2020-11-24
            Generosity and De-colonization 
    
        2020-05-04
            Generosity: Giving the Gift of Fearlessness 
    
        2021-07-16
            Getting Practical about Practice 
    
        2019-09-14
            Going for Refuge - A Beautiful Movement of the Heart 
    
        2018-05-28
            Gratitude 
    
        2014-11-11
            Guided Compassion Practice 
    
        2022-11-03
            Guided loving-kindness meditation 
    
        2018-06-13
            Guided Loving-Kindness Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2025-05-20
            Guided Meditation - Embodiment: Blurring the Boundaries 
    
        2024-09-10
            Guided Meditation: A Few Dimensions of Mindfulness of Breathing 
    
        2025-09-02
            Guided Meditation: Being with the Anchor 
    
        2025-06-10
            Guided Meditation: Listening for the Deeper Silence 
    
        2019-10-15
            Guided Meditation: Loving Kindness for the Difficult Person and All Beings 
    
        2018-03-09
            Guided Meditation: Radiating Loving-Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2014-02-14
            Guided Metta Instructions 
    
        2024-07-09
            Honoring Eric Kolvig: Stars in the Night Sky; I am Here Because of Others 
    
        2021-01-18
            Honoring Martin Luther King Day through Deeply Feeling 
    
        2023-12-13
            I am Here Because of Others: A Buddhist Practice of Deep Gratitude 
    
        2021-05-20
            Impermanence 
    
        2014-11-19
            Impermanence: Entrusting Yourself To The Waves 
    
        2016-11-01
            Implicit Bias & Suchness
 
    
        2017-06-18
            Implicit bias and the practice of sense restraint 
    
        2023-12-19
            In A Dark Time, The Eye Begins to See 
    
        2023-10-10
            Indigenous People's Day: The Practice of Honoring 
    
        2012-09-22
            Insight Into Impermanence 
    
        2023-01-17
            Inspiration & Martin Luther King 
    
        2022-02-08
            Inspirations from the Maha Gosinga Sutta 
    
        2025-02-24
            Instructions - Noticing Perception and Time 
    
        2021-11-06
            Instructions For Choiceless Attention and Q&A 
    
        2012-06-15
            Integrating the Practice 
    
        2024-11-19
            Intimacy and Sexual Energy 
    
        2024-08-19
            Intimacy and Stepping Out of Human Centric Perception 
    
        2015-11-09
            Introduction and Guided Compassion Practice 
    
        2023-11-24
            Introduction and guided meditation on equanimity 
    
        2022-07-13
            Introduction to Brahma Viharas and Loving-Kindness 
    
        2015-11-10
            Introduction To Dependent Origination 
    
        2018-06-12
            Introduction to Mindfulness on Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2021-08-19
            Introduction to the Three Ways of Perceiving and to the Perception of Impermane… 
    
        2025-06-03
            It Was Like This 
    
        2024-05-07
            Kindness: Being Able to Love 
    
        2022-03-15
            Language, the Sacred, & the Dharma 
    
        2022-10-04
            Learning from Nature: Ecological Intimacy and Equanimity 
    
        2024-11-05
            Learning to Live with Uncertainty 
    
        2017-10-09
            Learning to Skillfully Navigate the Judgemental Mind 
    
        2023-07-11
            Learning to Walk with the World 
    
        2017-06-20
            Lessons From Emptiness: Interdependence 
    
        2022-08-23
            Letting Go: Learning to Set Aside 
    
        2021-01-17
            Liberating Intimacy through Beginning Again 
    
        2023-04-11
            Limping Along in Life: Discovering the Dharma within Our Human Predicament 
    
        2021-02-02
            Lingering instead of Leaving; Staying instead of Straying 
    
        2025-06-10
            Listening for the Deeper Silence 
    
        2018-07-23
            Listening to the Language of the Land 
    
        2023-12-02
            Listening to the Voice of Another with Wise Attention 
    
        2014-10-28
            Living An Ethical Life 
    
        2021-04-20
            Living with Integrity 
    
        2024-10-15
            Living with Integrity: Two Guardians of the World 
    
        2012-06-10
            Love Dissolves Selfing 
    
        2019-06-03
            Loving Kindness 
    
        2021-11-04
            Loving Kindness For Ourselves And Others 
    
        2024-08-18
            Loving Kindness with Land As Dharma Teacher 
    
        2018-01-15
            Martin Luther King Jr. Day 
    
        2014-07-21
            Meditation & Emotions 
    
        2025-02-18
            Meditation Instructions - Everyday is a Good Day 
    
        2024-05-28
            Memorial Day - Ending the War Within 
    
        2021-03-29
            Merit & Blessings 
    
        2017-03-27
            Mind Bubbles 
    
        2018-04-30
            Mindfulness of Breathing 
    
        2014-10-31
            Mindfulness Of Vedana 
    
        2017-10-26
            Morning Guided Meditation 
    
        2019-02-18
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2019-02-20
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2018-06-13
            Morning Instructions - Relaxation and Pleasure (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-10-30
            Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation On Emotions 
    
        2025-07-17
            Morning Instructions for Arriving into Retreat 
    
        2017-11-04
            Morning Instructions for Practicing with the Awareness of Intention (Cetana) 
    
        2015-10-29
            Morning Instructions For Working With Thinking In Meditation 
    
        2019-09-11
            Morning Instructions on relaxation and beginning to connect with an anchor in m… 
    
        2019-02-15
            Morning Instructions on relaxation and beginning to connect with the breath 
    
        2019-09-16
            Morning Instructions on working with the hindrances and framing of the importan… 
    
        2022-07-12
            Morning Instructions: Arriving into retreat 
    
        2018-06-15
            Morning Instructions: Becoming Unfamiliar With Our Experience (Retreat at Spiri… 
    
        2023-11-02
            Morning Instructions: Choiceless Attention 
    
        2018-10-27
            Morning Instructions: Guided Meditation Highlighting Sensations 
    
        2023-10-27
            Morning Instructions: the art of bowing in navigating physical pain 
    
        2024-08-19
            Morning Instructions: Thinking and Emotions on Forested Land 
    
        2018-11-02
            Morning Instructions: Using the Tool of Mental Noting. 
    
        2016-11-07
            Morning Reflection - Crossing the Flood 
    
        2016-10-31
            Morning Reflection - Cultivating the Perception of Impermanence 
    
        2016-10-12
            Morning Reflection - Guided Meditation - Beginning to Nurture Samadhi
 
    
        2016-10-26
            Morning Reflection - Guided Meditation on Being Mindful of Thinking 
    
        2016-11-02
            Morning Reflection - Restraining the Senses and Cultivating the Senses 
    
        2016-10-17
            Morning Reflection - The Technique of Labeling
 
    
        2016-10-24
            Morning Reflection - Yun Men's Everyday is a Good Day 
    
        2024-11-29
            Morning Reflection:  Effort and Aspiration 
    
        2016-10-05
            Morning reflection: abandoning the unwholesome 
    
        2016-10-03
            Morning reflection: cultivating the wholesome 
    
        2024-11-24
            Morning Reflection: Interbeing and Categories Leak 
    
        2016-11-09
            Morning Reflection: Navigating Uncertainty and Fear 
    
        2023-11-25
            morning reflection: the best season of your life – (recording starts about four… 
    
        2024-11-04
            Morning Reflections on Not-Self and Intention 
    
        2024-11-09
            Morning Reflections: Placing an Altruistic Intention 
    
        2019-04-19
            Morning Session: What Obscures the Clarity of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2014-11-12
            Moving Beyond A Sense Of Lack 
    
        2023-08-01
            Moving Beyond Us and Them: Beholding Strangers as Kin 
    
        2019-04-08
            Mystery 
    
        2024-08-06
            Natural Awareness: Listening to the Second Melody 
    
        2014-02-12
            Natural Compassion 
    
        2018-03-15
            Navigating a Sense of Lack in our Practice 
    
        2021-11-11
            Navigating Difficulty Within Our Meditation 
    
        2015-02-04
            Navigating Difficulty: the Five Hindrances 
    
        2024-11-12
            Navigating Feelings of Unworthiness and Not Enough 
    
        2017-05-27
            Navigating the Feeling of Not Enough (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2021-11-23
            Navigating the Holiday Season 
    
        2016-11-08
            Navigating Uncertainty and Fear
 
    
        2023-01-10
            Noticing the Strands of Experience 
    
        2022-11-19
            Nurturing samadhi 
    
        2022-10-29
            Offering the gift of our Dharma practice 
    
        2021-12-13
            Opening the Heart with Humility 
    
        2023-11-18
            Opening to beauty 
    
        2023-10-17
            Opening to Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor 
    
        2024-05-01
            Opening to Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor 
    
        2021-03-02
            Opening to Inspiration: Dipa Ma 
    
        2021-01-06
            Opening to Knowing What We Don’t Know 
    
        2023-11-04
            Opening to Loss 
    
        2023-05-10
            Opening to the Beautiful, Good and Wholesome (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-11-04
            Opening To The Pali Chanting Of The Satipatthana Sutta 
    
        2018-11-27
            Opening to the Pali Chanting of the Satipatthana Sutta 
    
        2019-06-24
            Pause 
    
        2018-12-10
            Perceiving the World with Wisdom - Not Perfect 
    
        2025-02-11
            Perception and the Arising and Falling of Different Worlds 
    
        2021-08-24
            Perception Changes and a Doorway Opens for the Heart 
    
        2023-11-11
            Perception: The Arising and Passing of Different Worlds 
    
        2021-02-11
            Playing with Perception 
    
        2021-02-25
            Playing with Perception - Broadening Our Perception of Others 
    
        2021-02-15
            Playing with Perception: Being Filled By Inner Beauty 
    
        2021-02-14
            Playing with Perception: Cultivating the Preconditions for Samadhi 
    
        2021-02-17
            Playing with Perception: Different Views of Struggle and Challenge 
    
        2018-07-07
            PM06 intro to Anicca vata Sankhara chant 
    
        2018-07-07
            PM07 Anicca vata sankhara chant 
    
        2020-11-16
            Practices Leading Onward Toward Embodiment 
    
        2017-11-03
            Practicing For Oneself and Others 
    
        2018-10-27
            Practicing For Oneself And Others. 
    
        2017-08-21
            Practicing in the Forest:  Attending to Mystery and Belonging 
    
        2021-05-19
            Practicing Receiving Loving-Kindness 
    
        2017-05-25
            Practicing with the Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2016-05-26
            Practicing with Vedana - Feeling Tone 
    
        2019-10-04
            Practicing with Vedana - Feeling Tone 
    
        2021-06-16
            Preliminary Experiential Tastes of Emptiness 
    
        2019-02-14
            Preliminary Meditation Instructions for Retreat 
    
        2016-10-25
            Questions and Responses at the Forest Refuge
 
    
        2020-06-22
            Racism and Dharma Practice 
    
        2017-11-01
            Radiating Loving Kindness 
    
        2023-11-07
            Radiating loving kindness 
    
        2021-06-12
            Receiving Kindness 
    
        2020-05-18
            Reflections on Awakening 
    
        2019-06-21
            Reflections on Death and Being Born (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2025-02-18
            Reflections on Death and Birth (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2021-11-14
            Reflections On Death And Birth That Support Presense 
    
        2024-02-06
            Reflections on the Kalama Sutta 
    
        2017-05-23
            Refuges & Precepts & Introduction to Chanting Them 
    
        2019-07-30
            Renunciation 
    
        2024-07-30
            Renunciation: Turning Away and Turning Towards 
    
        2019-04-21
            Resting in the Mystery (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2024-01-02
            Rhythms of the Path And Beginning Again 
    
        2019-10-28
            Riding the Waves 
    
        2018-03-04
            Riding the waves of Anger (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2019-07-02
            Rohitassa Sutta 
    
        2024-10-29
            Samadhi and Nourishment 
    
        2017-10-27
            Samadhi and Pleasure 
    
        2016-10-11
            Samadhi and the Five Jhana Factors 
    
        2018-02-27
            Savoring Our Ethical Integrity and Altruistic Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2015-10-27
            Savoring The wholesome 
    
        2022-07-16
            Sense Restraint: Exploring Implicit Bias 
    
        2018-11-03
            Sexual Energy and Intimacy 
    
        2018-03-10
            Sexual Energy and Intimacy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2023-05-30
            Shifting the Perception of Death 
    
        2019-04-29
            Spiritual Friendship 
    
        2020-11-10
            Standing in Front of the Other: Going Beyond Divisiveness 
    
        2025-05-06
            Standing in the Middle: Compassion in a Troubled World 
    
        2024-04-16
            Stepping Out of Human-Centric Perception 
    
        2022-02-01
            Stepping Out of Human-Centric Perception and into Kinship 
    
        2024-07-02
            Stepping Out of the Place Where We are Right 
    
        2025-03-04
            Taking Out the Thorn in the Heart 
    
        2018-11-24
            Taking Out the Thorn: The Third Noble Truth 
    
        2018-07-06
            TBIF: thanks buddha it's friday 
    
        2019-01-07
            The 1st Noble Truth 
    
        2024-12-10
            The 1st Noble Truth 
    
        2019-01-14
            The 2nd Noble Truth 
    
        2019-01-21
            The 3rd Noble Truth 
    
        2024-04-29
            The 5th Precept: The Beauty of Ethical Integrity 
    
        2025-09-02
            The Art of Being with the Anchor 
    
        2024-01-09
            The Art of Nourishing Intentions 
    
        2016-04-04
            The Art of Samadhi 
    
        2017-08-28
            The Art of Wholesome Regret 
    
        2015-11-17
            The Birth Of The Self 
    
        2014-11-04
            The blessing Of Bodhicatta 
    
        2022-12-20
            The Coming Out of Nowhere Moment 
    
        2021-06-01
            The Dharma and Memorial Day 
    
        2024-06-13
            The Earth Element 
    
        2020-08-31
            The Empowering Quality of Karma 
    
        2020-08-03
            The Experience of Meaningfulness 
    
        2021-03-09
            The Five Daily Reflections 
    
        2023-03-14
            The Five Spiritual Faculties 
    
        2024-12-31
            The Fourth Noble Truth: The Journey of the Eightfold Path 
    
        2023-08-08
            The Gift of Fearlessness 
    
        2025-05-26
            The Gift of Fearlessness 
    
        2017-10-02
            The Gift of Impermanence 
    
        2019-12-16
            The Glass Half Empty: Emptying and Creating the Container to Receive 
    
        2013-07-01
            The Great Way is not Difficult 
    
        2012-06-11
            The Hard Stuff 
    
        2022-11-12
            The impulse for intimacy and the Dharma 
    
        2019-06-22
            The Interpersonal Dimension of the Dharma (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2024-09-03
            The Invisible Work of Dharma Practice 
    
        2017-07-24
            The Kalama Sutta 
    
        2014-02-06
            The Liberating Power of Loving-kindness 
    
        2013-10-14
            The Life of Simplicity 
    
        2021-05-18
            The Lotus Flower and the Pause 
    
        2021-08-20
            The Many Dimensions of Anger 
    
        2015-11-25
            The Mystery Of It All 
    
        2024-03-18
            The Ordinary Becoming Extraordinary 
    
        2019-12-09
            The Practice of Forgiveness 
    
        2025-08-05
            The Practice of Healing Instead of Harming 
    
        2024-12-17
            The Second Noble Truth 
    
        2015-11-02
            The Seed Of Faith 
    
        2021-12-28
            The Skill of Noticing What Else is Here 
    
        2023-12-26
            The Thread of Generosity 
    
        2019-09-20
            The Transformative Power of Seclusion, Solitude, and Silence 
    
        2017-06-16
            The Two truths: Conventional and Ultimate 
    
        2024-06-15
            The Water Element 
    
        2022-05-10
            The Weight of the World is Love: The Transforming Power of Compassion 
    
        2011-06-04
            The Why, What and How of Retreat 
    
        2021-08-03
            The Wisdom and Complexity of Gratitude 
    
        2022-10-18
            There's a Bluebird in My Heart 
    
        2023-04-25
            To Be in Time and to Be Free of Time 
    
        2022-01-08
            To Begin and To Continue 
    
        2021-08-10
            To Love and Say Goodbye:  A Poetic Approach to the Teaching on Gratification, D… 
    
        2023-01-11
            To Love and to Say Goodbye: A Poetic Approach to the Teaching on The Gratificat… 
    
        2019-10-18
            Touching the Mystery 
    
        2020-05-13
            Unfurling the Leaves of Our Spiritual Life (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2024-01-30
            Utilizing Views and Being Free of Views 
    
        2015-02-15
            Views - The Teaching of Not-Self 
    
        2015-02-20
            Views Part 3: A View of Right Now 
    
        2018-05-28
            Walking in the World in a Radically Different Way 
    
        2016-04-06
            Ways of Seeing Experience: Practicing with Dukkha and Anatta 
    
        2016-05-29
            Weaving Retreat Practice Into Our Lives 
    
        2023-05-23
            What is Insight? 
    
        2025-07-19
            What is Insight? 
    
        2023-07-18
            When Things Don't Work Out the Way You Want Them to 
    
        2023-09-05
            Wholehearted Livelihood 
    
        2022-05-24
            Wholeheartedly Connecting through Overcoming Ill Will 
    
        2021-12-21
            Winter Solstice: Beginning Again with Meditation 
    
        2016-10-18
            Wise Effort
 
    
        2019-03-04
            Wise Effort 
    
        2019-02-25
            Wise Livelihood 
    
        2015-12-01
            Wise Speech 
    
        2017-12-01
            Wise Speech 
    
        2025-01-14
            Wise Speech 
    
        2025-01-07
            Wise View and the Fluidity of Perception 
    
        2024-10-22
            Words of Encouragement 
    
        2011-06-06
            Working with Our Sense of Lack 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        Select one of Brian Lesage's 45 retreats
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        2012-09-08
            Three-Month Retreat  - Part 1  
    
        2013-07-01
            FIMC Monday Night Talks 
    
        2014-02-01
            February Month Long Retreat - 2014 
    
        2014-10-25
            Three Month - Part 2
 
    
        2015-01-31
            February Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2015-10-24
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2016-04-03
            Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioner… 
    
        2016-05-23
            Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening 
    
        2016-10-01
            October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2017-05-22
            Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening 
    
        2017-06-13
            Emptiness: A Meditation & Study Retreat for Experienced Students 
    
        2017-08-19
            The Natural Path to the Heart's Liberation 
    
        2017-10-24
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2018-02-24
            March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat 
    
        2018-06-11
            Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening 
    
        2018-07-06
            The Buddhist Teachings and Issues of Cultural Spiritual Bypassing 
    
        2018-07-07
            The Buddhist Teachings and Issues of Cultural Spiritual Bypassing 
    
        2018-07-21
            The Natural Path of the Heart's Liberation 
    
        2018-10-23
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2019-02-13
            Finding Freedom Through Insight Meditation 
    
        2019-04-15
            Exploring Awareness: Advanced Practitioner Program II 
    
        2019-06-17
            Spring Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2019-09-10
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2019-11-12
            APP2 Retreat #2: Emptiness 
    
        2020-05-11
            Spring Insight: Dharma, Care and Community in Uncertain Times - Online 
    
        2021-01-16
            Beginning Again Weekend Retreat 
    
        2021-01-20
            Deepening into the Four Noble Truths with Brian Lesage, Dawn Scott, and Vance P… 
    
        2021-05-18
            Spring Insight Retreat with Matthew Brensilver, PhD, Tuere Sala and Brian Lesage 
    
        2021-06-11
            Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation 
    
        2021-08-18
            Three Ways of Perceiving Study Group 
    
        2021-10-29
            Second 3-Week Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2022-01-05
            Samadhi and Insight Online Meditation Retreat 
    
        2022-07-11
            Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation 
    
        2022-10-25
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2023-05-08
            Spring Insight 
    
        2023-06-25
            Deepening the Natural Path to the Heart’s Liberation 
    
        2023-10-24
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2024-05-11
            Spring Insight: Understand the Mechanisms of the Salutary Effects of Mindfulness 
    
        2024-06-11
            Dharma, Intimacy, and Ecology: Finding the Path in Every Step 
    
        2024-08-16
            Land as Dharma Teacher 
    
        2024-10-22
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2025-02-01
            2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat 
    
        2025-07-16
            Deepening into the Dharma: A Meditation Retreat for Experienced Practitioners -… 
    
        2025-08-06
            Land as Dharma Teacher with Erin Treat and Brian Lesage 
    
        2025-08-15
            75th Anniversary Benefit Retreat