Brian Lesage's Dharma Talks
at Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community
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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2017-03-13
A Beginning Taste of Emptiness
2025-04-22
A Broader View: What the Leaves Are Teaching
2021-09-07
A Deeper Labor of Love
2023-01-31
A Moment of Kindness
2022-06-07
Abiding and Residing in the Practice of the Dharma
2018-10-15
Ambivalence
2024-07-23
An Introduction to Emptiness
2022-08-09
And The Buddha Cried
2018-02-19
Anger/Hatred
2020-08-24
Appreciative Joy - Mudita
2013-07-29
Awakening & Mystery
2025-07-08
Becoming the River
2015-01-12
Beginning Again
2019-12-30
Beginning Again
2021-01-05
Beginning Again with What is Right Here
2019-08-19
Beginning to Know What We Don't Know
2022-05-03
Being Aligned with the Dharma & Ecological Perception
2020-11-30
Being Deeply Passionate about our Lives & Spiritual Path
2023-02-28
Bhavana and the Unfolding of the Dharma Path
2018-08-06
Binary Thinking and the Limits of Language
2022-03-08
Broadening Our Practice of the Dharma
2021-10-11
Climate Change & The Dharma
2021-07-12
Coming Together Again as Community: Sangha and Place
2025-03-11
Compassion: Learning to Love the World
2019-05-13
Conceit/Comparing Mind
2022-06-21
Contentment
2017-06-26
Crossing Over the Flood
2021-07-19
Crossing the Flood
2020-04-13
Crossroads and the Potential for Transformation or Disintegration
2014-09-01
Dharma and Climate Change
2021-12-06
Dharma Practice & Writing with the author Ruth Ozeki
2021-06-08
Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor
2018-12-10
Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Perfect
2018-12-24
Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Permanent
2018-12-17
Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Personal
2024-09-10
Discovering the Home of the Breath
2025-05-20
Embodiment in a Digital Age: A Return to the Living World
2025-09-09
Entering the Stream of Kindness
2023-02-07
Expanding Joy
2022-08-02
Expanding Our Sense of What It Means to Practice the Dharma
2023-05-02
Facets of Connection: Being Together and Being Alone
2020-11-03
Facing Uncertainty: Allowing Love to to Return in a Different Way
2020-09-07
Finding Freedom from Becoming
2020-08-13
Foundations for supporting the habit of a daily meditation practice
2022-04-19
Friendship, Community, and Navigating Criticism
2018-04-23
Generosity
2020-11-24
Generosity and De-colonization
2020-05-04
Generosity: Giving the Gift of Fearlessness
2018-05-28
Gratitude
2025-05-20
Guided Meditation - Embodiment: Blurring the Boundaries
2024-09-10
Guided Meditation: A Few Dimensions of Mindfulness of Breathing
2025-09-02
Guided Meditation: Being with the Anchor
2025-06-10
Guided Meditation: Listening for the Deeper Silence
2024-07-09
Honoring Eric Kolvig: Stars in the Night Sky; I am Here Because of Others
2021-01-18
Honoring Martin Luther King Day through Deeply Feeling
2023-12-19
In A Dark Time, The Eye Begins to See
2023-10-10
Indigenous People's Day: The Practice of Honoring
2023-01-17
Inspiration & Martin Luther King
2022-02-08
Inspirations from the Maha Gosinga Sutta
2021-08-19
Introduction to the Three Ways of Perceiving and to the Perception of Impermane…
2025-06-03
It Was Like This
2024-05-07
Kindness: Being Able to Love
2022-03-15
Language, the Sacred, & the Dharma
2022-10-04
Learning from Nature: Ecological Intimacy and Equanimity
2017-10-09
Learning to Skillfully Navigate the Judgemental Mind
2023-07-11
Learning to Walk with the World
2022-08-23
Letting Go: Learning to Set Aside
2021-01-17
Liberating Intimacy through Beginning Again
2023-04-11
Limping Along in Life: Discovering the Dharma within Our Human Predicament
2021-02-02
Lingering instead of Leaving; Staying instead of Straying
2025-06-10
Listening for the Deeper Silence
2021-04-20
Living with Integrity
2024-10-15
Living with Integrity: Two Guardians of the World
2019-06-03
Loving Kindness
2018-01-15
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
2014-07-21
Meditation & Emotions
2024-05-28
Memorial Day - Ending the War Within
2021-03-29
Merit & Blessings
2017-03-27
Mind Bubbles
2018-04-30
Mindfulness of Breathing
2023-08-01
Moving Beyond Us and Them: Beholding Strangers as Kin
2019-04-08
Mystery
2024-08-06
Natural Awareness: Listening to the Second Melody
2021-11-23
Navigating the Holiday Season
2023-01-10
Noticing the Strands of Experience
2021-12-13
Opening the Heart with Humility
2023-10-17
Opening to Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor
2021-03-02
Opening to Inspiration: Dipa Ma
2019-06-24
Pause
2018-12-10
Perceiving the World with Wisdom - Not Perfect
2021-08-24
Perception Changes and a Doorway Opens for the Heart
2021-02-11
Playing with Perception
2021-02-25
Playing with Perception - Broadening Our Perception of Others
2021-02-15
Playing with Perception: Being Filled By Inner Beauty
2021-02-14
Playing with Perception: Cultivating the Preconditions for Samadhi
2021-02-17
Playing with Perception: Different Views of Struggle and Challenge
2020-11-16
Practices Leading Onward Toward Embodiment
2020-06-22
Racism and Dharma Practice
2020-05-18
Reflections on Awakening
2024-02-06
Reflections on the Kalama Sutta
2019-07-30
Renunciation
2024-07-30
Renunciation: Turning Away and Turning Towards
2024-01-02
Rhythms of the Path And Beginning Again
2019-10-28
Riding the Waves
2019-07-02
Rohitassa Sutta
2023-05-30
Shifting the Perception of Death
2019-04-29
Spiritual Friendship
2020-11-10
Standing in Front of the Other: Going Beyond Divisiveness
2025-05-06
Standing in the Middle: Compassion in a Troubled World
2024-04-16
Stepping Out of Human-Centric Perception
2022-02-01
Stepping Out of Human-Centric Perception and into Kinship
2024-07-02
Stepping Out of the Place Where We are Right
2025-03-04
Taking Out the Thorn in the Heart
2019-01-07
The 1st Noble Truth
2024-12-10
The 1st Noble Truth
2019-01-14
The 2nd Noble Truth
2019-01-21
The 3rd Noble Truth
2024-04-29
The 5th Precept: The Beauty of Ethical Integrity
2025-09-02
The Art of Being with the Anchor
2024-01-09
The Art of Nourishing Intentions
2017-08-28
The Art of Wholesome Regret
2022-12-20
The Coming Out of Nowhere Moment
2021-06-01
The Dharma and Memorial Day
2020-08-31
The Empowering Quality of Karma
2020-08-03
The Experience of Meaningfulness
2021-03-09
The Five Daily Reflections
2023-03-14
The Five Spiritual Faculties
2024-12-31
The Fourth Noble Truth: The Journey of the Eightfold Path
2023-08-08
The Gift of Fearlessness
2025-05-26
The Gift of Fearlessness
2017-10-02
The Gift of Impermanence
2019-12-16
The Glass Half Empty: Emptying and Creating the Container to Receive
2013-07-01
The Great Way is not Difficult
2024-09-03
The Invisible Work of Dharma Practice
2017-07-24
The Kalama Sutta
2013-10-14
The Life of Simplicity
2021-05-18
The Lotus Flower and the Pause
2024-03-18
The Ordinary Becoming Extraordinary
2019-12-09
The Practice of Forgiveness
2025-08-05
The Practice of Healing Instead of Harming
2024-12-17
The Second Noble Truth
2021-12-28
The Skill of Noticing What Else is Here
2023-12-26
The Thread of Generosity
2022-05-10
The Weight of the World is Love: The Transforming Power of Compassion
2021-08-03
The Wisdom and Complexity of Gratitude
2022-10-18
There's a Bluebird in My Heart
2023-04-25
To Be in Time and to Be Free of Time
2021-08-10
To Love and Say Goodbye: A Poetic Approach to the Teaching on Gratification, D…
2024-01-30
Utilizing Views and Being Free of Views
2018-05-28
Walking in the World in a Radically Different Way
2023-05-23
What is Insight?
2023-07-18
When Things Don't Work Out the Way You Want Them to
2023-09-05
Wholehearted Livelihood
2022-05-24
Wholeheartedly Connecting through Overcoming Ill Will
2021-12-21
Winter Solstice: Beginning Again with Meditation
2019-03-04
Wise Effort
2019-02-25
Wise Livelihood
2025-01-14
Wise Speech
2025-01-07
Wise View and the Fluidity of Perception
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2013-07-01
FIMC Monday Night Talks
2021-01-16
Beginning Again Weekend Retreat
2021-08-18
Three Ways of Perceiving Study Group
