The Well - Online meditation followed by a talk on a mystic or poet.

An invitation to drink deeply from the Well of Living Water offered by the mystics and poets: Online talks, preceded by a 20 minute meditation, in which the speakers reflect on how a mystic or poet has been life-giving, a source of Living Water, in their lives.

Sunday 2 August, 7.30-8.30pm (AEST)

The Joy of Unknowing: Living into Inner Freedom with Meister Eckhart

How are you to find freedom in your life? Eckhart puts it simply: let go. Of everything you know, and of all you think you are. Embrace emptiness. Cherish darkness. Discover simplicity. Practise nakedness. Cultivate unknowing – which we acquire on the “useless” path of meditation where we find ourselves invited to live into receptivity, attentiveness, and openness – which is to say, inner freedom. Join us as we explore Eckhart’s wisdom for living on “the wayless way.”

Speaker: Dr Mark S. Burrows is a scholar, poet, translator and retreat leader. His publications include Meister Eckhart’s Book of Secrets – Meditations on Letting Go and Finding True Freedom and Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart – Meditations for the Restless Soul (with Jon M. Sweeney); a new translation of Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus (Monkfish, 2024) and You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke, co-written with Australian author Stephanie Dowrick (Monkfish, 2024). To find out more about his work, see www.soul-in-sight.org

Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81069770651?pwd=S21BdHN4VHpMZk5ONHFSTlB2ZEIvZz09

There is no charge, but a donation towards an honorarium for our speakers would be greatly appreciated.

See: https://www.thelivingwater.com.au/checkout/donate?donatePageId=5f20c979af12d14916e8f57a

A joint initiative of Benedictus Contemplative Church (https://benedictus.com.au/),
The World Community for Christian Meditation in Australia (https://wccmaustralia.org.au/), and the blog Living Water (www.thelivingwater.com.au)

Responding to the Gift and Call of Contemplative Church

Gathering in Canberra, 15-17 October 2026

This gathering is for those leading or wanting to initiate forms of Christian contemplative worship and community.

The last few years has seen a revival of contemplative practice in the Western church. This contemplative renewal has not necessarily permeated the ethos and practice of regular worshipping communities, but there are now signs of contemplative forms of church emerging, both as new expressions and within existing congregations, schools and communities.

This gathering is for those leading or wanting to initiate forms of contemplative worship and community. We seek to share and reflect on what’s emerging, to explore questions we are holding and needing to discern.

Learn more and register

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