The Cloud-Water Sangha consists of all members of The Rochester Zen Center, the Chicago Zen Center, Zenbuddhistiska Samfundet, the Madison Zen Center, and Casa Zen, our Mexican Sangha. "Cloud-Water" is a literal translation of "unsui," the name used in Japan for a novice monk. Clouds and water are much admi-red in Zen as models of adaptability and egolessness, but they are also predom-inant elements in the weather at all of our centers except Mexico. Snow, rain, lakes, and clouds - these form the com-mon experience of all of us in Rochester, Chicago, Madison, and Stockholm. And even our Mexican Sangha has its lake karma, as it sits on the former great Lake Tenochtitlan, site of the Aztec capital.