No Teachers of Zen: A Dharma Talk by Rev. Choro Antonaccio

Saturday, June 4th at 10:15 - 11:30 am

  • Teacher  Rev. Choro Antonaccio
  • Date/Time  Saturday, June 4th 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. 

The Chinese master Huangbo  said to the assembled monks in his monastery, “Don’t you know that in all of China, there are no teachers of Zen?”
 
A monk came forward and said to him, “Then what about all those people like you who set up Zen places that students flock to like birds?”
 
Huangbo replied, “I don’t say there is no Zen, only that there are no teachers.” 
 
This talk explores what it is to come to a temple, to practice, to be trained and to train, and just what is a student, or a teacher.

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* While our Saturday Morning Program has no charge, we depend on the generosity of our members, donors, and participants to continue to make such offerings available.

Austin Zen Center invites you to the Saturday Morning Program in the Online Zendo: 

Time: Saturdays from 9-12 AM CST   (repeats weekly on Saturdays)

Schedule: 

8:00 – 8:30 am      Informal Zazen 

8:30 – 8:40 am      Kinhin

8:40 – 9:05 am       Informal Zazen

9:05 – 9:15 am       Han for Zazen

9:15 – 9:50 am        Zazen

9:50 – 10:15 am      Service & Announcements

10:15 – 11:30 am    Dharma Talk & Discussion (see before & after lecture chants)

11:30 am                Tea and cookies

Please read about AZC Online Zendo Etiquette HERE.