TBA IMG
Insight Meditation Group of Houston

The 1-Day Meditation retreat at ABC for Feb 22, March 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 are temporary discontinued due to scheduling.  The 1-Day Meditation Retreat will resume in April, 2014.  Thank you for your understanding. Four Foundation of Mindfulness Meditation Workshop March 8, 15, 22 & 29  Satipatthana Sutta or Four Foundations of Mindfulness is one of the 2 very important Sutta that the Buddha taught on the subject of meditation.  We are using videos, class material and guided meditation based on the teaching by Venerable Aggacitta's class ( http://satipatthanasbs.wordpress.com/ ).  Ven. Aggacitta is the Abbot of Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary ( http://www.sasanarakkha.org/ ) and a well experienced monk both in meditation and Pali. Contact us if you are interested in developing deeper understanding of meditation, interested to learn Pali and committed.  In order for you to gain full benefit you will have to commit to attend the entire cours...

Feeding the Factors for Awakening The Buddha taught, in the Ahara Sutta (SN 46.51) Food or For the Factors for Awakening translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu, how to feed & starve the five hindrances & of the seven factors for Awakening. In our first 2014 weekly Saturday 1-day retreat lead by Venerable Katapunno, the yogis got both "Food for the mind and body".  Food for the Mind:  Dhamma lecture after sitting and walking meditation sections. Food for the body: We had a delicious "hot pot" prepared by the wonderful kitchen members and volunteers at the center. Venerable Katapunno preparing the Malaysian salad. Come join the 1-day retreat every Sat of the week 9am till 4pm.  Do RSVP

Mark your calendar for a 7 day meditation retreat February 2014 Seven day Metta meditation retreat lead by experienced masters Ven. Kaiyin, Ven. Kaizhao and Ven. Zhihan from 2/22 to 3/1 2014.  The masters will lead us step by step to develop soft, kind and forgiving heart and to achieve concentration, calm and peaceful mind.  Participation of all seven days is required.   Call the front office at 281-498-1616 . Date : 02/22 - 03/01/2014 Requirement : full course participation Download: Application Contact: 281-498-1616 Benefits of Metta : There are 11, some of them are: bright & pleasing complexion, sleeps & wakes easily with no nightmares, dear to human beings, animals & non-humans, protected by angels & spirits, gain concentration quickly, peaceful passing on.    

Ten Day Year End Meditation  Texas Buddhist Association (TBA) Insight Meditation Group (IMG) has our last retreat of the year from Dec 7th to Dec 16th 2013.  Venerable Katapunno lead the retreat in spite of the bitter cold and his sickness.  He continue the study of the book "In This Very Life" by Sayadaw U Pandita .  In addition, this time we welcomed three yogis from California participating in the retreat.  Let's hope that this trend continue, since one of the primary purpose of the American Bodhi Center is provide a place for everyone to conduct retreats.  You are welcome to contact the center if you are interested. In addition to the rigorous schedule of walking, standing and sitting meditation.  There were two things that everyone appreciated and benefited a lot from are: the Dhamma talk by Venerable Katapunno and the every other day personal interviews by him.  Bhante spent hours, sometimes staying up till late hours (I know...

A lot of people enjoy the 3-day long weekend going on vacations and visiting friends. More than thirty of us die-hard and newbies got to gather at the American Bodhi Center (ABC) to work on our meditation practices. We had students from TAMU College Station and we had new friends who had not been to ABC before. You may say fate brought us together and others will tell you that it is our karma that does the job. Orientation was conducted during the first evening, in order to explain and introduce the important guidelines. "Noble Silence" started that evening. The practice of noble silence extend not only to essential verbal communication, it also include all actions for the three days. By making each action slowly with clear awareness, produced the desired results and benefits for meditation. Each meditation session is an hour long and the Venerable did gave each yogi, especially for the benefit of beginners, the flexibilities to mindfully change postures.  Venerable Kat...

" Unwavering Commitment - factor leading to the development of the controlling faculties is the quality of mind that keeps you walking straight to the end of the path without becoming sidetracked, without giving up your task."  these were the words from the Book "In This Vert Life" by Sayādaw U Pandita. About thirty yogis spent the Memorial Holidays under the guidance of Venerable Katapunno experienced the meditation life of monastics.  Woke up 5AM in the morning and have nine sessions of meditation.  At the end of each sitting meditation we heard the inspiring Pali chant from Dhammapada Verses 277, 278 and 279 of our teacher ... "Sabbe sankhara anicca ti yada pannaya1 passati atha nibbindati dukkhe esa maggo visuddhiya. Sabbe sankhara dukkha ti yada pannaya passati atha nibbindati dukkhe esa maggo visuddhiya. Sabbe sankhara anatta ti yada pannaya passati atha nibbindati dukkhe esa maggo visuddhiya."   "All conditioned phenomena are imper...

VenK has to teach the Basic Buddhism class at Jade Buddha Temple Sat 4/27 starting at 10AM, therefore we will not have the IMG 1-day meditation.  Pictures taken during Basic Buddhism class past Saturday 4/20. Do not forget to sign up for the May Memorial Holiday weekend 3-day meditation retreat from May 25 to May 27 ( http://www.jadebuddha.org/en/ abc/upcoming/2013/0525/ ).