Spiritual Renewal

Even a dedicated meditation practice can quietly become a routine — and that's exactly when renewal matters most.

In this talk, Rafi Rahman reflects on what it means to bring freshness back to practice, not by starting over, but by loosening the grip of what we think we already know.

About Rafi Rahman

Rafi was born and raised in Bangladesh and has been practicing Insight meditation since 2015. He has been part of the Insight Meditation Houston (IMH) community since 2018 and currently serves as Chair of the IMH Board. He is passionate about helping build a warm and welcoming practice community.

His path has been shaped by silent retreats, the loss of close family members, and a lifelong curiosity about what it means to live with wisdom and compassion. Alongside Buddhist practice, he enjoys studying Jungian psychology and exploring the meeting place between Eastern and Western approaches to awakening and healing.

By profession, he is an engineer, and outside of work he enjoys listening to bamboo flute music, taking walks at Memorial Park, and sharing meaningful conversations with friends.

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Episoder(16)

Generosity

What would it mean to move through daily life with genuine generosity — not as a transaction, but as a way of being?In this talk, Ginger Clarkson reflects on the Zen precept "Do not be stingy," explor...

16 Jun 14min

Loving-kindness and Non-harm as a Preliminary

Most of us sit down to meditate and jump straight into watching the breath — but what if a few minutes of preparation made the whole practice easier? In this talk, Travis Hicks explores the idea of pr...

4 Jun 17min

Vesak and a Brief Life of the Buddha

Every year on the full moon of May, Buddhists around the world celebrate Vesak — the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Buddha, all said to have occurred on the same day. In this talk, Travis Hick...

18 Mai 20min

Brahma Vihara Practice of Mudita (Sympathetic Joy)

Joy isn't a distraction from the spiritual path — according to the Buddha, it's an essential part of it. In this talk, Ginger Clarkson guides the group through mudita, or sympathetic joy, the third of...

6 Mai 25min

Meditation in Movement: The Alexander Technique

Alexander technique is a body awareness and reeducation method from the 19th century that embodies many principles that overlap with mindfulness meditation and insight through observation. In this tal...

5 Mai 17min

Mindfulness of the Body Part 2

In this second talk on mindfulness of the body, Travis Hicks picks up where he left off, covering three more practices from the Satipatthana Sutta: working with postures and energy, mindfulness of the...

21 Apr 17min

Mindfulness of the Body Part 1

The body is always here which makes it one of the most reliable anchors for meditation practice.In this first of two talks on mindfulness of the body, Travis Hicks introduces the first of the Four Fou...

15 Apr 31min