A Dharma Talk on Dogen’s Genjokoan by Rev. Choro Antonaccio

  • Guiding Teacher  Rev. Choro Antonaccio
  • Date/Time  Saturday, November 12th at 10:15am
  • Location  In person & Online Zendo
  • Fee  By donation*

Choro Antonaccio began formal Zen practice at Chapel Hill Zen Center in 1999. She received lay precepts from her teacher, Rev. Josho Patricia Phelan, in 2001 and priest ordination in 2010. She was shuso in Chapel Hill in 2016. Rev. Choro has practiced at the three temples of San Francisco Zen Center including practice periods at Tassajara and Green Gulch Farm. In Chapel Hill she served for multiple years in the positions of Tenzo, Work Leader, and Ino and also served as member at large and president of the board of directors. She decided to end her career in academia in 2018 and moved to Austin to practice with the sangha at AZC in 2020. 

Written in 1233, Genjokoan was composed for a lay follower of Soto Zen founder Eihei Dogen Zenji in Kyoto, where Dogen established his first monastery after returning from China. Together with Fukanzazengi and Bendowa, Genjokoan is one of his fundamental teachings. The title refers to the question of reality manifesting right now. Dogen instructs as follows:

To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be actualized by myriad things. When actualized by myriad things, your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others drop away. No trace of realization remains, and this no-trace continues endlessly.” 

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