31 min
Talk
Starting from Not Knowing
November 2004: beginning from not knowing who or what we are, and staying there.
About the teacher
Toni Packer
German-American teacher of what she called meditative inquiry (1927–2013), born in Berlin. She trained in Zen and was in line to succeed Philip Kapleau at the Rochester Zen Center, then stepped away from the forms, the titles and the lineage altogether and founded Springwater Center, where she taught looking directly at experience without any religious frame around it.
Talks & videos
Watch.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
33 min
Talk
If We Don't Think It's Bad
How pain and grief actually feel when the thought that they should not be there is not added.
48 min
Talk
Seeing Without Judgment
May 1991, on what is left of a difficult person once the judgment of them drops away.
45 min
Talk
The Habit of Fault Finding
From a retreat in June 1998: looking at the habit of judging while it is happening, rather than deciding to stop it.
Path
The wider context.
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Inquiry into awareness
Non-duality
Direct contemplation of awareness, identity and the experience of separation.
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