All Episodes

Brian Lesage: Letting Love Widen

Brian Lesage: A Broader View: What the Leaves are Teaching

Brian Lesage: The Pause that Remembers

Brian Lesage: Renouncing the Lesser, Turning Toward the Greater

Brian Lesage: Falling in Love with the Dharma

Brian Lesage: The Human Predicament: Losing Things

Brian Lesage: Liberating Intimacy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Brian Lesage: Nothing Gets Fixed Yet Something Shifts (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Brian Lesage: The Strength to Meet Hate with Love

Brian Lesage: Beginning Again

Brian Lesage: In a Dark Time the Eye Begins to See

Brian Lesage: Meeting the News Within Our Long Human Lineage

Brian Lesage: Introduction to Equanimity and Guided Meditation

Brian Lesage: Confidence & Humility: Falling in Love with the Dharma

Brian Lesage: Morning Instructions: My Weather

Brian Lesage: Vast Time, Small Bodies: Letting the Dharma Flow Through

Brian Lesage: Freedom and the Five Aggregates

Brian Lesage: Guided Meditation & Introduction: Radiating Loving Kindness and the Selfless Nature of Experience

Brian Lesage: Reflections on Spiritual Bypassing and Long Retreat Practice

Brian Lesage: Contentment and Samadhi

Brian Lesage: Introduction & Guided Loving Kindness for Friend and Neutral Person

Brian Lesage: Entering the Stream of Kindness

Brian Lesage: The Art of Being with the Anchor

Brian Lesage: Guided Meditation: Being with the Anchor

Brian Lesage: Allowing our Hearts to Love

Brian Lesage: Dharma Talk: Learning the Language of the Land Through the Body

Brian Lesage: The Practice of Healing Instead of Harming

Brian Lesage: What is Insight?

Brian Lesage: Morning Instructions for Arriving into Retreat

Brian Lesage: Becoming the River

Brian Lesage: Listening for the Deeper Silence

Brian Lesage: Guided Meditation: Listening for the Deeper Silence

Brian Lesage: It Was Like This

Brian Lesage: Guided Meditation - Embodiment: Blurring the Boundaries

Brian Lesage: Embodiment in a Digital Age: A Return to the Living World

Brian Lesage: Standing in the Middle: Compassion in a Troubled World

Brian Lesage: A Broader View: What the Leaves Are Teaching

Brian Lesage: Compassion: Learning to Love the World

Brian Lesage: Taking Out the Thorn in the Heart

Brian Lesage: Awakening: Like a Bird Flying in the Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Brian Lesage: Instructions - Noticing Perception and Time

Brian Lesage: Reflections on Death and Birth (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Brian Lesage: Meditation Instructions - Everyday is a Good Day

Brian Lesage: Perception and the Arising and Falling of Different Worlds

Brian Lesage: Wise Speech

Brian Lesage: Wise View and the Fluidity of Perception

Brian Lesage: The Fourth Noble Truth: The Journey of the Eightfold Path

Brian Lesage: The Second Noble Truth

Brian Lesage: And the Buddha Cried: Practicing with Loss

Brian Lesage: The 1st Noble Truth

Brian Lesage: Morning Reflection: Effort and Aspiration

Brian Lesage: Morning Reflection: Interbeing and Categories Leak

Brian Lesage: Intimacy and Sexual Energy

Brian Lesage: Navigating Feelings of Unworthiness and Not Enough

Brian Lesage: Morning Reflections: Placing an Altruistic Intention

Brian Lesage: Learning to Live with Uncertainty

Brian Lesage: Morning Reflections on Not-Self and Intention

Brian Lesage: Samadhi and Nourishment

Brian Lesage: Living with Integrity: Two Guardians of the World

Brian Lesage: Discovering the Home of the Breath

Brian Lesage: Guided Meditation: A Few Dimensions of Mindfulness of Breathing

Brian Lesage: The Invisible Work of Dharma Practice

Brian Lesage: Appreciative Joy on Forested Land

Brian Lesage: Intimacy and Stepping Out of Human Centric Perception

Brian Lesage: Morning Instructions: Thinking and Emotions on Forested Land

Brian Lesage: Loving Kindness with Land As Dharma Teacher

Brian Lesage: Natural Awareness: Listening to the Second Melody

Brian Lesage: Renunciation: Turning Away and Turning Towards

Brian Lesage: An Introduction to Emptiness

Brian Lesage: Honoring Eric Kolvig: Stars in the Night Sky; I am Here Because of Others

Brian Lesage: Stepping Out of the Place Where We are Right

Brian Lesage: The Water Element

Brian Lesage: The Earth Element

Brian Lesage: Memorial Day - Ending the War Within

Brian Lesage: Kindness: Being Able to Love

Brian Lesage: The 5th Precept: The Beauty of Ethical Integrity

Brian Lesage: Stepping Out of Human-Centric Perception

Brian Lesage: The Ordinary Becoming Extraordinary

Brian Lesage: Reflections on the Kalama Sutta

Brian Lesage: Utilizing Views and Being Free of Views

Brian Lesage: The Art of Nourishing Intentions

Brian Lesage: Rhythms of the Path And Beginning Again

Brian Lesage: The Thread of Generosity

Brian Lesage: In A Dark Time, The Eye Begins to See

Brian Lesage: I am Here Because of Others: A Buddhist Practice of Deep Gratitude

Brian Lesage: Listening to the Voice of Another with Wise Attention

Brian Lesage: morning reflection: the best season of your life – (recording starts about four minutes from the beginning)

Brian Lesage: Introduction and guided meditation on equanimity

Brian Lesage: Dharma Practice As Offering

Brian Lesage: Opening to beauty

Brian Lesage: Perception: The Arising and Passing of Different Worlds

Brian Lesage: Radiating loving kindness

Brian Lesage: Opening to Loss

Brian Lesage: Morning Instructions: Choiceless Attention

Brian Lesage: Falling in love with the four iddhipadas

Brian Lesage: Morning Instructions: the art of bowing in navigating physical pain

Brian Lesage: Opening to Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor

Brian Lesage: Indigenous People's Day: The Practice of Honoring

Brian Lesage: Wholehearted Livelihood

Brian Lesage: The Gift of Fearlessness

Brian Lesage: Moving Beyond Us and Them: Beholding Strangers as Kin

Brian Lesage: When Things Don't Work Out the Way You Want Them to

Brian Lesage: Learning to Walk with the World

Brian Lesage: Generosity and Compassion for Later Generations

Brian Lesage: Forested Land as Dharma Teacher

Brian Lesage: Shifting the Perception of Death

Brian Lesage: What is Insight?

Brian Lesage: Opening to the Beautiful, Good and Wholesome (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

Brian Lesage: Facets of Connection: Being Together and Being Alone

Brian Lesage: To Be in Time and to Be Free of Time

Brian Lesage: Limping Along in Life: Discovering the Dharma within Our Human Predicament

Brian Lesage: The Five Spiritual Faculties

Brian Lesage: Bhavana and the Unfolding of the Dharma Path

Brian Lesage: Expanding Joy

Brian Lesage: A Moment of Kindness

Brian Lesage: Inspiration & Martin Luther King

Brian Lesage: To Love and to Say Goodbye: A Poetic Approach to the Teaching on The Gratification, The Drawback, and the Escape

Brian Lesage: Noticing the Strands of Experience

Brian Lesage: The Coming Out of Nowhere Moment

Brian Lesage: Beautiful friendship and friends with the beautiful

Brian Lesage: Devotion and reverence

Brian Lesage: Nurturing samadhi

Brian Lesage: The impulse for intimacy and the Dharma

Brian Lesage: Being somebody and being nobody.

Brian Lesage: Guided loving-kindness meditation

Brian Lesage: Offering the gift of our Dharma practice

Brian Lesage: There's a Bluebird in My Heart

Brian Lesage: Learning from Nature: Ecological Intimacy and Equanimity

Brian Lesage: Letting Go: Learning to Set Aside

Brian Lesage: And The Buddha Cried

Brian Lesage: Expanding Our Sense of What It Means to Practice the Dharma

Brian Lesage: Sense Restraint: Exploring Implicit Bias

Brian Lesage: Introduction to Brahma Viharas and Loving-Kindness

Brian Lesage: Morning Instructions: Arriving into retreat

Brian Lesage: Contentment

Brian Lesage: Abiding and Residing in the Practice of the Dharma

Brian Lesage: Wholeheartedly Connecting through Overcoming Ill Will

Brian Lesage: The Weight of the World is Love: The Transforming Power of Compassion