With the beautiful summer unfolding, please join us as we gather online this coming Saturday for an Open Meditative Dialogue with guest speaker Bill Reinecke.

After a decade of earnest training at the Rochester Zen Center and another in Montreal, I showed up at Toni Packer’s door in the mid-90s, asking her why, despite my athletic approach to spirituality, I hadn’t achieved enlightenment. She said,

“Well, because you can’t!”

I was dumbfounded.

There have been unsought openings since then, but I have come to see them as beacons rather than destinations, always pointing back to what Toni called the work of this moment. Over the past three decades, meditative dialogue with Toni, Francis Lucille, Byron Katie, and many Springwater friends has been one of the great gifts of my life. Looking back, I see how long I had hoped for personal success. Instead, I find myself being sobered—often reluctantly.

And now, instead of praying for silence, I find myself taking my own hand and looking under the bed.      —Bill Reinecke

The schedule is as follows:  

August 1st Schedule (Times given are Eastern Daylight Time)
1:30 – 1:55 pm – Timed Sitting
2:00 – 2:30 pm – Talk by Bill Reinecke
2:40 – 4:00 pm – Open Meditative Group Dialogue

Zoom Access for this event:
DIRECT LINK or
Zoom.us Meeting ID: 289 037 6188, Passcode: 7179 
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdsftvqRwr

Speaking and dialoguing at Springwater Center is different from a lecture or a discussion group where we share what we already know. The spirit of meditative inquiry infuses talks and dialogues with a sense of exploration and discovery, of being open to the freshness of not knowing. Join the program online and experience this for yourself.

Online Open Meditative Dialogues are donation-based events. To contribute in support, a donation of $12 per attendance is suggested. Please use the button below to donate, and choose the “Online Sittings/Programs” option. Your generosity helps keep online programs available for all to attend.
Thank you.

We hope you can join us for our August 4-Day Retreat with Bob Dattola from August 7th through August 11th. Several spaces are still available for this retreat, including single rooms.

Bob will give talks and be available for private meetings and the daily afternoon group dialogue in this August retreat. Bob has been taking part in the Center’s work since its inception. Important questions for him over the years have been “What is Truth or Reality?” and “Where can Truth be found?” In addition to pursuing his career at Xerox and Cornell University, Bob has served as a trustee for many years and in recent years has been leading retreats at the Center. In his own words:

In this hereness there’s some kind of . . . intelligence that works totally outside of this thinking process . . . And it’s not just intelligence. The word I like to use is compassion.

Visit Bob’s teacher page for articles and recorded talks.

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