The Light of Discovery

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To read this book is to enter the essence of our lives and our everyday concerns. Toni Packer shines her gentle light on fear, compassion, impermanence, attraction, prejudice, enlightenment, and much more. As she says, "In truth we are not separate from each other, or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness". In this work, Packer invites us into our own light of discovery.

Toni Packer began studying Zen in 1967 with Roshi Philip Kapleau at the Rochester Zen Center. She is now resident teacher of Springwater Zen Center, in Springwater, New York, where she leads regular retreats. Her previous books are The Work of This Moment and The Wonder of Presence.

"The Light of Discovery is clear wisdom, accessible to people of all walks of life. Toni Packer's words should be sipped like a good wine."-Arthur Braverman, author of Mud and Water: A Collection of Talks by Zen Master Bassui