The Practice of Disappointment: a Dharma Talk by Rev. Choro Antonaccio, Austin Zen Center

  • Guiding Teacher  Rev. Choro Antonaccio
  • Date/Time  Saturday, June 10th 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. 

This talk will explore a teaching of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche:

“We must surrender our hopes and expectations, as well as our fears, and march directly into disappointment, work with disappointment, go into it, and make it our way of life, which is a very hard thing to do… If we can open, then we suddenly begin to see that our expectations are irrelevant compared with the reality of the situations we are facing.” 

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