Dear Friends, This coming Monday there will be no sutta study before the sitting. We will meet between 7 and 8:30 and do a final reading of the Sutta on ...
Dear friends, We will be sitting this Monday from 7-8:30 (4100 Westheimer, suite 233). I'm looking forward to seeing you and hearing how everyone is doing. We...
Dear friends, We will be sitting Monday night for 7-8:30, but please give yourself plenty of time to arrive...and don't feel bad if you are late. Travel ...
First Retreat: I am offering a residential retreat the weekend of October 17-19. This retreat is open to both new and experienced students and includes periods...
For a taste of our current theme of ending suffering see recent blog posts. http://www.citta101.org/blogger.htm <http://www.citta101.org/blogger.htm> ...
When it becomes all too clear that things are not as substantial as they seem. When the gift of change feels dangerous instead of hopeful. When the world feels...
On Monday nights we have been exploring expanded definitions of mindfulness and working with the third noble truth of freedom from suffering. We will continue...
It's a new day in the USA. A new day on the planet! Were you touched deeply by the candidates speeches last night? I am acutely aware of healing, my own...
The Insight Meditation Community of Houston will be offering a six week introductory course beginning Monday, November 10th and ending Monday December 15th....
A couple weeks ago I offered a practice suggestion around the hunger for interpersonal pleasure (addressed in the interpersonal practice blog for work with...
During a hard time in my early twenties I ran across Alan Watts, Wisdom of Insecurity. The reading was a great relief for me. Freeing. This passage carries...
The holidays are here! I hope they are filled with peace and happiness! Before the holidays begin, I hope you will give yourself the gift of registering for...
Dear Friends, We have been doing a beginning course on Monday nights. The past three weeks we reviewed the basics of breath and body and, skipping this week,...
Dear Friends, Please join us Monday night at the Spectrum Center from 7-8:30 for our last Monday night sitting of the year. We will sit, walk, and talk a ...
February 1, 2009 Change Your Mind, Change Your Life: Combining Cognitive Therapy with Mindfulness Meditation to Manage Stress, Depression & Anxiety Taught by...
Thank you for asking about this. The course begins Sunday, February 1 at 1 PM It is the newest and last listing at www.citta101.org/meditationcourses.htm ...
The past two weeks we have been talking about our coming year and about community or sangha. Each week the conversation has been with completely different...
I am inspired by Barack Obama's call to service. It reminds me of JFK's challenge, a challenge that inspired my father in the late sixties to leave his job as...
We are having another short retreat this weekend. There is a session for people new to practice on Friday night and a day long guided practice retreat on...
We are having an Open House at the Spectrum Center this Saturday. Invitation: http://www.spectrumcenter-houston.com/Open_House_013109.html Come and see the...
We are going to return to some focus on Interpersonal practice at the sitting on Monday night. The focus this first week will be on Pausing both in the sitting...
At the sitting Monday, we decided to work another few days with Pause, suggesting that you experiment with returning to Pausing throughout the day...just as we...
In order to become experientially connected to the first noble truth, that suffering exists, consider this question for a day: How do I distract myself from...
Are you interested in being a research subject in meditation? If you have over six years of practice and a daily meditation practice Dr. Ulirch Kirk is...
Daylong Retreat in Beaumont March 14, 2009 9am-3pm Experiential in nature, this day welcomes beginning meditators and those already practicing meditation. We...