In Zen training monasteries there is the practice of bringing a question to the teacher with the community in attendance.  This Q&A with AZC’s Guiding Teacher is modeled on this practice.  It is informal and there is no script. 

Questions about your practice, your practice as it relates to your everyday life and about Zen or Buddhist teachings are welcome.  It is encouraged to bring a question from your experience, rather than your intellectual understanding, but Choro will meet whatever comes.  

Let’s bring forth the dharma together!  All are welcome.

Rev. 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. Choro moved to Austin to practice with the sangha at AZC in 2020, serving as Tanto (Head of Practice). In 2021, she received dharma transmission from Rev. Konjin Gaelyn Godwin, Abbot of Houston Zen Center, and became Guiding Teaching of AZC in 2022. She is a full member of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association and also of the American Zen Teachers Association.