The Work of This Moment. This item is unavailable.The Work of This Moment

In this compelling collection of talks, essays, interviews, and letters, Toni Packer presents a radically simple and original approach to spiritual growth free from religious authority, doctrine, symbolism, and ceremony. A former Zen teacher and student of Krishnamurti's work, Toni Packer goes beyond traditional religion and explores with the reader the root of human attachments and the source of suffering, opening the way to compassion.

Toni Packer is a leading teacher of spiritual awakening through meditation. Born in Germany, she moved to the United States in 1951 at the age of twenty-four. In 1967, she joined the Rochester Zen Center, becoming a student and later dharma successor to Roshi Philip Kapleau. In the mid 1970s, she encountered the work of J. Krishnamurti, which stimulated and eventually resolved increasing doubts about working in an established religious tradition. In 1981, she established the Springwater Center for Meditative Inquiry and Retreats, a non-sectarian center, not associated with any particular tradition. Toni Packer is the author of Seeing Without Knowing (1983), What is Meditative Inquiry?, (1988) The Work of this Moment (1990), and conducts retreats in the United States and in Europe.