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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2015-02-14
Brahma Viharas Day 14
2021-01-21
1st Noble Truth: Perceiving our Human Situation in a Liberating Way
2015-02-25
Brahma Vihara Day 25
2015-02-05
Brahma Vihara Practice Day #5: Metta
2015-02-11
Brahma Viharas #11
2024-05-16
Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-02-25
Day 1 Morning Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-11-14
Day 2 Emptiness and Dependent Origination (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-24
Day 2: Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-03-16
Day 20 Brahma Viharas (Retreat at Spirit rock)
2017-05-25
Day 3: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-26
Day 4: Instructions and Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-27
Day 5: Metta Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-03-02
Day 6 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-11-18
Day 6: Conventional and Liberating Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-14
Dharma Debate: Samvega versus Softening and Receiving (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-01-22
Discovering Inspiration for our Lives through Wise View
2016-04-08
Easing into the Boundless
2015-02-10
Freedom From Views: Part 1
2018-03-20
Freedom from Views+ Individual & Systemic Views of Practice (Retreat at Spirit …
2018-06-13
Guided Loving-Kindness Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-03-09
Guided Meditation: Radiating Loving-Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-02-14
Guided Metta Instructions
2021-05-20
Impermanence
2018-06-12
Introduction to Mindfulness on Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-10-26
Morning Guided Meditation
2018-06-13
Morning Instructions - Relaxation and Pleasure (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-15
Morning Instructions: Becoming Unfamiliar With Our Experience (Retreat at Spiri…
2019-04-19
Morning Session: What Obscures the Clarity of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-02-12
Natural Compassion
2018-03-15
Navigating a Sense of Lack in our Practice
2015-02-04
Navigating Difficulty: the Five Hindrances
2017-05-27
Navigating the Feeling of Not Enough (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-05-10
Opening to the Beautiful, Good and Wholesome (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-05-19
Practicing Receiving Loving-Kindness
2017-05-25
Practicing with the Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-26
Practicing with Vedana - Feeling Tone
2019-06-21
Reflections on Death and Being Born (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-05-23
Refuges & Precepts & Introduction to Chanting Them
2019-04-21
Resting in the Mystery (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-03-04
Riding the waves of Anger (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-02-27
Savoring Our Ethical Integrity and Altruistic Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-03-10
Sexual Energy and Intimacy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-04-04
The Art of Samadhi
2019-06-22
The Interpersonal Dimension of the Dharma (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-02-06
The Liberating Power of Loving-kindness
2020-05-13
Unfurling the Leaves of Our Spiritual Life (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-02-15
Views - The Teaching of Not-Self
2015-02-20
Views Part 3: A View of Right Now
2016-04-06
Ways of Seeing Experience: Practicing with Dukkha and Anatta
2016-05-29
Weaving Retreat Practice Into Our Lives
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Select one of Brian Lesage's 15 retreats
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2014-02-01
February Month Long Retreat - 2014
2015-01-31
February Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-04-03
Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioner…
2016-05-23
Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2017-05-22
Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2018-02-24
March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2018-06-11
Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening
2019-04-15
Exploring Awareness: Advanced Practitioner Program II
2019-06-17
Spring Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-11-12
APP2 Retreat #2: Emptiness
2020-05-11
Spring Insight: Dharma, Care and Community in Uncertain Times - Online
2021-01-20
Deepening into the Four Noble Truths with Brian Lesage, Dawn Scott, and Vance P…
2021-05-18
Spring Insight Retreat with Matthew Brensilver, PhD, Tuere Sala and Brian Lesage
2023-05-08
Spring Insight
2024-05-11
Spring Insight: Understand the Mechanisms of the Salutary Effects of Mindfulness
