Dharma Talk: Carmen Afable Roshi

Thursday, August 27th |  5:30–7:00 PM
Meditation begins at 5:30 pm MT, followed by the Dharma Talk (teisho) at 6:00 pm MT.

You are invited to join us for an evening with Carmen Afable at Mountain Cloud Zen Center’s zendo, where they will be leading the Dharma Talk.

This hybrid event is free and registration is not required. Please arrive five to ten minutes ahead of the scheduled time.

To participate online, please click on the zoom link below.

sit.mountaincloud.org
Passcode: mountain22

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If you miss a dharma talk, you can find it on our YouTube channel within one to two weeks.

Kindly consider contributing dana (a traditional Buddhist offering) to express financial gratitude to our teacher. Dana for Carmen can be made through Mountain Cloud’s donation page: https://www.mountaincloud.org/donate/

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Carmen Afable Roshi began their Zen practice in September 1984, receiving Shoken from Sister Elaine MacInnes. Since then, they have been dedicated to the practice and were appointed as a teacher by Yamada Ryoun in 2010. Despite their experience, Carmen humbly considers themselves still a beginner.

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Teisho literally means “presentation of the shout.” It is not a lecture or a didactic discourse but a direct sharing of the dharma springing from the teacher’s experience. A teisho or dharma talk is not intended to engage the discursive mind. Rather, the invitation is to let the language wash over the listener and, if something strikes, to let that resound.

At Mountain Cloud, teisho often take up a koan, a record of an exchange between Chan/Zen masters or masters and disciples that conveys the world they are sharing and carries the seeds of awakening. Teisho invite us to keep company with the ancestors whose practice-awakening (a term from Dogen) is freshly conveyed each time we turn to this living tradition.