Brian Lesage's Dharma Talks
     at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 
    
              
              
 
            
    
        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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        2021-10-31
            A Passion For The Path: Falling In Love 
    
        2022-12-03
            Beautiful friendship and friends with the beautiful 
    
        2021-11-06
            Beauty And The Seven Factors Of Awakening 
    
        2014-11-25
            Being Somebody And Being Nobody 
    
        2018-11-10
            Being Somebody and Being Nobody 
    
        2022-11-05
            Being somebody and being nobody. 
    
        2012-09-29
            Bodhicitta 
    
        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 
    
        2022-07-16
            Cittānupassanā practice - practical suggestions on how to engage with and culti… 
    
        2022-07-18
            Closing Talk 
    
        2019-09-28
            Coming into Presence through Reflecting on Death and Birth 
    
        2017-11-23
            Decolonizing The Mind On Thanksgiving Day 
    
        2022-11-26
            Devotion and reverence 
    
        2023-11-23
            Dharma Practice As Offering 
    
        2017-11-09
            Embodiment Through Mindfulness Of The Body 
    
        2017-06-14
            Entry Into Emptiness: Honoring and Settling In. 
    
        2012-09-15
            Faith 
    
        2018-11-17
            Faith and Confidence 
    
        2023-10-28
            Falling in love with the four iddhipadas 
    
        2017-11-16
            Freedom From Unworthiness and Becoming. 
    
        2019-10-12
            Freeing the Heart from Implicit Bias 
    
        2019-09-14
            Going for Refuge - A Beautiful Movement of the Heart 
    
        2014-11-11
            Guided Compassion Practice 
    
        2022-11-03
            Guided loving-kindness meditation 
    
        2019-10-15
            Guided Meditation: Loving Kindness for the Difficult Person and All Beings 
    
        2014-11-19
            Impermanence: Entrusting Yourself To The Waves 
    
        2017-06-18
            Implicit bias and the practice of sense restraint 
    
        2012-09-22
            Insight Into Impermanence 
    
        2021-11-06
            Instructions For Choiceless Attention and Q&A 
    
        2024-11-19
            Intimacy and Sexual Energy 
    
        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 
    
        2024-11-05
            Learning to Live with Uncertainty 
    
        2017-06-20
            Lessons From Emptiness: Interdependence 
    
        2023-12-02
            Listening to the Voice of Another with Wise Attention 
    
        2014-10-28
            Living An Ethical Life 
    
        2021-11-04
            Loving Kindness For Ourselves And Others 
    
        2014-10-31
            Mindfulness Of Vedana 
    
        2019-02-18
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2019-02-20
            Morning Instructions 
    
        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 
    
        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 
    
        2018-11-02
            Morning Instructions: Using the Tool of Mental Noting. 
    
        2024-11-29
            Morning Reflection:  Effort and Aspiration 
    
        2024-11-24
            Morning Reflection: Interbeing and Categories Leak 
    
        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 
    
        2014-11-12
            Moving Beyond A Sense Of Lack 
    
        2021-11-11
            Navigating Difficulty Within Our Meditation 
    
        2024-11-12
            Navigating Feelings of Unworthiness and Not Enough 
    
        2022-11-19
            Nurturing samadhi 
    
        2022-10-29
            Offering the gift of our Dharma practice 
    
        2023-11-18
            Opening to beauty 
    
        2023-11-04
            Opening to Loss 
    
        2017-11-04
            Opening To The Pali Chanting Of The Satipatthana Sutta 
    
        2018-11-27
            Opening to the Pali Chanting of the Satipatthana Sutta 
    
        2023-11-11
            Perception: The Arising and Passing of Different Worlds 
    
        2017-11-03
            Practicing For Oneself and Others 
    
        2018-10-27
            Practicing For Oneself And Others. 
    
        2019-10-04
            Practicing with Vedana - Feeling Tone 
    
        2019-02-14
            Preliminary Meditation Instructions for Retreat 
    
        2017-11-01
            Radiating Loving Kindness 
    
        2023-11-07
            Radiating loving kindness 
    
        2021-11-14
            Reflections On Death And Birth That Support Presense 
    
        2024-10-29
            Samadhi and Nourishment 
    
        2017-10-27
            Samadhi and Pleasure 
    
        2015-10-27
            Savoring The wholesome 
    
        2022-07-16
            Sense Restraint: Exploring Implicit Bias 
    
        2018-11-03
            Sexual Energy and Intimacy 
    
        2018-11-24
            Taking Out the Thorn: The Third Noble Truth 
    
        2015-11-17
            The Birth Of The Self 
    
        2014-11-04
            The blessing Of Bodhicatta 
    
        2022-11-12
            The impulse for intimacy and the Dharma 
    
        2015-11-25
            The Mystery Of It All 
    
        2015-11-02
            The Seed Of Faith 
    
        2019-09-20
            The Transformative Power of Seclusion, Solitude, and Silence 
    
        2017-06-16
            The Two truths: Conventional and Ultimate 
    
        2019-10-18
            Touching the Mystery 
    
        2025-07-19
            What is Insight? 
    
        2015-12-01
            Wise Speech 
    
        2017-12-01
            Wise Speech 
    
        2024-10-22
            Words of Encouragement 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        2012-09-08
            Three-Month Retreat  - Part 1  
    
        2014-10-25
            Three Month - Part 2
 
    
        2015-10-24
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2017-06-13
            Emptiness: A Meditation & Study Retreat for Experienced Students 
    
        2017-10-24
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2018-10-23
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2019-02-13
            Finding Freedom Through Insight Meditation 
    
        2019-09-10
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2021-10-29
            Second 3-Week Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2022-07-11
            Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation 
    
        2022-10-25
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2023-10-24
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2024-10-22
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2025-07-16
            Deepening into the Dharma: A Meditation Retreat for Experienced Practitioners -…