Saturday, March 6th, 2021 at 3-4:30pm EST Guest Speaker Rev. Choro Carla Antonaccio will talk with us about “Focusing Our Intention: Zen Home Altars”
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Many practitioners are inspired to set up a place to sit in their homes and an altar to support their home practice. In Japan, such home altars (butsudan) also provide a place for family ancestors to be honored with memorial tablets and offerings. Creating an altar as a place to make offerings and set up images of a deity or ancestor is a very old ritual practice across the world, and evokes something deep in human beings.
This workshop will cover the basics of setting up an altar that functions as a location of devotion for Soto Zen practitioners. We will talk about how to create an altar that respects basic Soto Zen principles of order and design but meets the needs of our diverse society and practice. A home altar can reflect your sensibilities and allow for creativity while aligning with our traditions. Home altars can be sites of memory and of gratitude, too.
Bring your questions and share your practice!
Bio: Rev. Choro Carla 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, where she serves as Tanto (head of practice) in 2020.