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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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2022-11-19 Nurturing samadhi 44:06
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2022-11-12 The impulse for intimacy and the Dharma 53:25
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2022-11-05 Being somebody and being nobody. 59:02
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2022-11-03 Guided loving-kindness meditation 44:32
This talk offers reflections on the importance of kindness for ourselves. This is followed by a guided meditation that includes receiving kindness, kindness for a benefactor, and kindness for oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2022-10-29 Offering the gift of our Dharma practice 49:22
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2022-10-18 There's a Bluebird in My Heart 26:36
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-10-04 Learning from Nature: Ecological Intimacy and Equanimity 31:59
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-08-23 Letting Go: Learning to Set Aside 37:26
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-08-09 And The Buddha Cried 35:29
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-08-02 Expanding Our Sense of What It Means to Practice the Dharma 33:05
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-07-16 Sense Restraint: Exploring Implicit Bias 53:48
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation
2022-07-16 Cittānupassanā practice - practical suggestions on how to engage with and cultivate the Citta 50:54
with Akincano Marc Weber, Brian Lesage
Standing meditation - guided; walking instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation
2022-07-13 Introduction to Brahma Viharas and Loving-Kindness 37:36
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation
2022-07-12 Morning Instructions: Arriving into retreat 50:57
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation
2022-06-21 Contentment 45:06
This talk offers reflections on the heart quality of contentment and then offers a guided meditation along this theme.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-06-07 Abiding and Residing in the Practice of the Dharma 29:04
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-05-24 Wholeheartedly Connecting through Overcoming Ill Will 24:33
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-05-10 The Weight of the World is Love: The Transforming Power of Compassion 55:52
This talk offers reflections on the practice of Compassion and is followed by a guided meditation
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-05-03 Being Aligned with the Dharma & Ecological Perception 67:31
This talk offers reflections on interweaving elements of ecological perception with the practice of the Dharma. It is followed by a guided meditation.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-04-19 Friendship, Community, and Navigating Criticism 33:45
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-03-15 Language, the Sacred, & the Dharma 30:25
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-03-08 Broadening Our Practice of the Dharma 33:40
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-02-08 Inspirations from the Maha Gosinga Sutta 35:14
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/
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-02-01 Stepping Out of Human-Centric Perception and into Kinship 57:14
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks
2022-01-08 To Begin and To Continue 37:14
Mountain Hermitage Samadhi and Insight Online Meditation Retreat

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