High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Toni Packer (born 1927) is the founder of Springwater Center, located in Springwater, in the finger lakes region of upstate New York, an hour south of Rochester. The center was founded in 1981 as the Genesee Valley Zen Center and has since been renamed. Up to 16 retreats are held a year in what can be a curious blend of ritual-less zen and neo-advaita silent retreats, and David Bohm style dialogues/group meetings. Packer is a former student in the Sanbo Kyodan lineage of Zen Buddhism, and was previously in line to be the successor of Phillip Kapleau at the Rochester Zen Center. Her eventual departure from Zen Buddhism was due in part to her growing scepticism toward the use of Japanese ritual in Zen as practised at the Rochester Zen center. Today her discursion of meditative inquiry is informed largely by her own vision, but also by the talks and writings of J. Krishnamurti. Packer has rejected labels for herself such as a teacher or...

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