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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.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the dimensions of mindfulness of breathing that are explored in the Guided Meditation entitled: A Few Dimensions of Mindfulness of Breathing
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) Reflections about the dimensions of mindfulness of breathing that are explored in this guided meditation are offered in the dharma talk entitled, Discovering the Home of the Breath.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores opening to beauty through the seven factors of awaking and appreciating own goodness
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An introduction to this practice followed by a guided meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 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) Standing meditation - guided, walking instructions
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the heart quality of contentment and then offers a guided meditation along this theme.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the practice of Compassion and is followed by a guided meditation
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) 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) 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) This talk explores learning the skill of using the question: What else is here supporting me? The talk is in honor of Etty Hillesum.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) 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.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) 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
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talks offers a brief reflection on navigating the holiday season by discovering the doorway of Pausing.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) The first 30 minutes is a talk given by Molly McCormick and the second 30 minutes is a guided meditation accompanying Molly's talk given by Brian Lesage
(Mountain Hermitage) This talk offers reflections on Appreciative Joy followed by a guided meditation
(Mountain Hermitage) This talk offers reflections on the practice of forgiveness as well as a guided meditation on Forgiveness.
(Mountain Hermitage) This talk offers a description of the practice of receiving kindness as well as giving a brief introduction to the Brahma Viharas. It ends with a guided meditation on receiving kindness.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on a metaphor found in the Dona Sutta as well as offering a way of pausing found in the course: Practicing in 3D found at https://mailchi.mp/3af4c5cd014d/practicing-in-3d
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk explores the implication of how we perceive the world and how perception can be utilized on this path towards freedom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This offering consists of a Dharma talk followed by a guided meditation.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) A Dharma talk followed by a 30 min. meditation
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk explores the spiritual act of beholding another being in a way that goes beyond harmful divisiveness.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) Facing Uncertainty: Allowing Love to to Return in a Different Way
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers one way of beginning to understand the dynamic of becoming through a few examples and an initial way of practicing with it.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk shares how the teaching on karma can be empowering to our lives. It also clarifies some misconceptions about karma.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the practice of Appreciative Joy.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the importance of Meaningfulness in our Spiritual practice.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk explores the dynamics of Racism and bringing our practice of the Dharma to these dynamics.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk offer reflections on the skill of opening to the wholesome and onward-leading aspects of our lives.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the two truths doctrine of Nagarjuna in a way that makes it relevant for our lives and our practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk connects the teachings on dependent origination and emptiness. It then connects them to our lives and our practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on how to touch the mystery of this path and this practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This guided meditation includes instructions for cultivating kindness towards a difficult person as well as all beings. The instructions are followed by a guided meditation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on how the practice of sense restraint on retreat can help us unlearn the oppressive biases that we have received from society.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores this transformative approach to meditation involving vedana (feeling tone). The practice of noticing vedana consists of noticing the pleasant, unpleasant and neutral aspects of experience.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on how reflecting on the inevitability of our death as well as the wonder of our birth establishes presence in a powerful and transformative way.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on these important qualities on the spiritual path. It explores this by getting a felt sense of these through a poetic understanding of these terms.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on the act of Going for Refuge as a movement of the heart. This movement offers freedom through reorienting our lives toward the spiritual path.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk explores the process of beginning to know what we don't know especially in the relational field we live in.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on how this one word can be a powerful tool that can lead us into Presence.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Matthew and Brian share reflections on bringing our spiritual practice into the relational field of our lives.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk shares how reflecting on our death and our precious birth situates mindfulness in a transformative way.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on this quality of heart, Loving Kindness and the practice of it.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the dynamic of conceit, namely feeling better than, or less than, or equal to others. The talk explores both the individual and systemic forms of conceit.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the importance of spiritual friendship on the path.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk celebrates the revealing of mystery through this practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk utilizes "The Four Faults of Natural Awareness" by Niguma to support the practice of awareness. It also offers a guided meditation.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the importance of Mystery in our lives and on our spiritual path.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the wise effort path factor of the eightfold path and how it relates to our lives.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the wise livelihood path factor of the eightfold path and how it relates to our lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on how to fold retreat practice back into our daily lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers guidance into some of the fundamentals of meditation practice.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the 3rd Noble Truth.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the 2nd Noble Truth.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the 1st Noble Truth in light of our human predicament.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on impermanence. This is the third part of a three part series on the three characteristics or three ways of seeing our experience.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on how experience is not personal. This is the second part of a three part series on the three characteristics or three ways of seeing our experience.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on how experience is not perfect. This is the first part of a three part series on the three characteristics or three ways of seeing our experience.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on how we come to terms with imperfections.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk introduces the practice of opening to and meditating upon the chanting of the Satipatthana Sutta, the discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. It utilizes the chanting of Ven. Dr. Omalpe Sobhita Thero.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the Third Noble Truth and how it can relate to retreat practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the importance of faith and confidence on the spiritual path and how to nurture it.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the importance of having a sense of self and the importance of going beyond a sense of self.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on how to navigate the impulse to connect and sexual energy while on retreat.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers a guided meditation and instructions for using mental noting in meditation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the importance of having this broad aspiration for our practice.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on ambivalence in our lives and how to navigate it.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on going beyond the limits of language.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on how to begin to listen to the natural world in a way that deepens our spiritual practice
(New York Insight Meditation Center) How how have our cultural orientations influenced how we imagine the Buddha? What have we inadvertently bypassed in the process?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk shares a way of understanding the practice of being present and a broader context to hold it in. (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the Buddha's advice to Rahula in which he encourages him to reflect before, during and after the actions that he engages in. The talk explores how we can act in the world in a different and transformative way.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the importance and practice of gratitude.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on bringing in the practice of mindfulness of breathing, even into our daily activities.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the heart quality of generosity.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the skill of navigating views. It also offers some reflections on the individual and systemic views of the practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk offers reflections on how to navigate feelings of "not enough" and how they are connected to the Process of Becoming.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk offers reflections on how to navigate the impulse to connect and sexual energy while on retreat.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk shares reflections on how to navigate emotions such as Irritation, annoyance, and anger.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk offers two conditions that are helpful and support our meditation practice.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on navigating the anger and hatred that can arise in our lives.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk is in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers a way to skillfully engage in communication within this complex world we live in.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores a way to begin decolonizing the mind through a Buddhist practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how to clearly see the darkness of unworthiness and becoming in a way that leads to freedom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers some reflections on mindfulness of the body and its intersection with embodiment.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk introduces the practice of opening to and meditating upon the chanting of the Satipatthana Sutta, the discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. It utilizes the chanting of Ven. Dr. Omalpe Sobhita Thero.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the encouragement found in the Firebrand Sutta to practice for oneself and others while on retreat.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers both instruction and a guided meditation for the way of practicing Metta found in the early Buddhist texts.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk introduces the quality of samadhi and the importance to opening to pleasure in our spiritual practice.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on how to navigate the judging mind.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores ways of practicing in the forest that allows us to address the challenges we face in our lives on and off the cushion.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the Kalama sutta that make this discourse relevant to our lives.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers what we can learn for our daily lives when we use the lens of emptiness and interdependence.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the context of the historical Buddha and how it brings relevance to the practice of sense restraint in addressing implicit bias.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the teaching of two truths and connects it with our meditation practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflection on honoring tradition and settling into meditation from one perspective on emptiness.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores some ways to navigate the feeling of unworthiness that can arise in our lives and in our practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk offers a perspective on the Four Noble Truths that interweaves with our meditation practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk offers reflections on one way of understanding the refuges and precepts. It also introduces the practice of chanting the refuges and precepts.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on how to burst the mind bubbles that confine ourselves and others.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk offers reflections on the dynamics of uncertainty and fear in our lives and on retreat and how to navigate them.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Brief Description of talk: This talk offers reflections on how the practice of sense restraint on retreat can help us unlearn the oppressive biases that we have received from society.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk consists of responses to written questions at the Forest Refuge
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk offers reflections about the art of bringing balance into your meditation practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This brief morning reflection offers a brief introduction to utilizing the technique of labeling in one's meditation practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This brief morning reflection offers a brief guided meditation for allowing the mind and body to settle.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk introduces the quality of Samadhi and briefly describes the five jhana factors.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This morning reflection explores the practice that leads to abandoning the unwholesome.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores the aspiration to practice for the benefit of all beings while on retreat.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on seen the spiritual path through the framework of cultivation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores how to bring our spiritual practice out beyond the retreat container.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores practicing with vedana (feeling tone) which consists of noticing the pleasant, unpleasant and neutral aspects of experince.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the process of clearly seeing the arising of reactivity in a way that leads to our freedom. It also offers reflections on opening up to the selfless aspect of our experience.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the art of cultivating samadhi by offering an initial understanding of it.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections about wise speech in the context at the end of a retreat and the context of our lives in general.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the dimension of mystery of our spiritual journey
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk shares reflections on seeing the arising of the narrow sense of self in our meditation practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk introduces the teaching of dependent origination as a foundation for our medittation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk introduces the practice of compassion and offers a guided meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the importance of faith on the spiritual path and how to nurture it.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This brief talk gives instructions about how to relate to thinking in our meditation practice
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the art of opening to the beautiful and the wholesome in our lives and in our practice
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk offers an alternative view to seeing this practice as a linear path.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the Buddha's Teachings on Not-self as a practice.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk explores the skill of being free of views and at the same time knowing how to utilize them.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk offers reflections on navigating the five hindrances.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers reflections on how to skillfully transition from long retreat into daily life. It explores keeping our relationship to the Dharma alive in the many facets of our life.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the importance of having a sense of self and the importance of going beyond a sense of self.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores opening to impermanence in our meditation practice and the importance of doing so.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how a sense of unworthiness can infiltrate our practice and how to move beyond it.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk gives a basic introduction to the practice of compassion and then includes a guided meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores how having an intention in our practice for the benefit of all beings expands our path and puts us in contact with wisdom.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Being aware of the pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral flavors of our experience, is a gateway to liberation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the interplay of ethical conduct nourishing our meditation practice and our meditation practice nourishing our ethical conduct.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our meditation practice leads to a natural compassion that can transform the world.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Loving-kindness offers qualities of heart that transform our life and our spiritual practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers some reflections on bringing an altruistic intention into our meditation practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the nature of the insight into impermanence and how to support this insight within our meditation practice.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores the nature of faith and examines the doubts that can arise for us on our spiritual path