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
2025-10-31
Contentment and Samadhi
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
2025-11-07
Freedom and the Five Aggregates
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
2025-11-04
Guided Meditation & Introduction: Radiating Loving Kindness and the Selfless Na…
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
2025-10-28
Introduction & Guided Loving Kindness for Friend and Neutral Person
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
2025-11-04
Reflections on Spiritual Bypassing and Long Retreat Practice
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
2025-11-14
Vast Time, Small Bodies: Letting the Dharma Flow Through
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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Select one of Brian Lesage's 15 retreats
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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 -…
2025-10-23
Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2
