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Brian Lesage's Dharma Talks at Spirit Rock Meditation 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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2017-05-25 Practicing with the Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:54
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This talk offers a perspective on the Four Noble Truths that interweaves with our meditation practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2017-05-25 Day 3: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:13
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Forgiveness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2017-05-24 Day 2: Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 16:45
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Opening to the Pleasant and Noting
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2017-05-23 Refuges & Precepts & Introduction to Chanting Them 50:55
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This talk offers reflections on one way of understanding the refuges and precepts. It also introduces the practice of chanting the refuges and precepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2016-05-29 Weaving Retreat Practice Into Our Lives 48:11
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This talk explores how to bring our spiritual practice out beyond the retreat container.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2016-05-26 Practicing with Vedana - Feeling Tone 51:52
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This talk explores practicing with vedana (feeling tone) which consists of noticing the pleasant, unpleasant and neutral aspects of experince.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2016-04-08 Easing into the Boundless 62:58
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This talk offers a way of exploring awareness itself.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners
2016-04-06 Ways of Seeing Experience: Practicing with Dukkha and Anatta 61:37
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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 :  Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners
2016-04-04 The Art of Samadhi 43:59
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This talk explores the art of cultivating samadhi by offering an initial understanding of it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners
2015-02-25 Brahma Vihara Day 25 44:38
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Upekkha-Particular Groups of Beings
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Insight Meditation Retreat

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