An Announcement from the Springwater Center Teaching Committee…
At the February 13th meeting of the Teaching Committee, we discussed our feeling that it was time to begin to expand our committee by adding a new teacher that embodies and expresses the spirit of meditative inquiry. In this way, we can carry on the work of this moment, which is so essential in our daily life and in our interaction with others.
The Teaching Committee finds that Liz Heron has a deep understanding of the work of meditative inquiry. We voted unanimously for Liz to join us. Liz has already been leading retreats and with her many skills is involved in supporting the Center in many other ways.
“As a decades-long friend, I have gotten to know Liz deeply over many years as we helped each other as mirrors in this longstanding relationship. The glue that binds us together has been a shared passion for the work of moment-to-moment questioning together what still feels unclear, with honesty and directness, not pretending. I have also witnessed how she can stand firmly here, when dealing with many voices in conflict, seeking understanding and not taking sides. This amazing quality of being here can help any of us to be that oak tree, grounded in its roots of nothing and everything at the same time.”
—Sandra Gonzalez
Liz has been coming to Springwater since 1995.
In her own words: “I return to Springwater again and again for silence and togetherness and the inquiry into our impossible relationships. The beauty in the silence of retreat is the chance to be in a slower, quieter space. Silence may allow our minds and bodies to settle into the whole, to allow the world to arise rather than reaching out or resisting it. And then, as soon as we resume talking and interacting, speed arises and we negotiate with our world as if we can control it. It’s a challenging practice to learn to coordinate the heart space of silence with our daily lives. It is possible to begin to coordinate the heart space in movement, in speech, in connection with family and with the greater community. It is possible, even in the world of global actors, circumstances and views that we steadfastly hold or oppose, to bring curiosity, listening, that dropping of reactivity.”
