Zazen Sitting for Peace - Sunday July 24th - An Hour with Washin, from Ukraine

[Washin]

We continue sitting for Peace, Children and the Injured in Ukraine and around the World.

Please join us for the Sunday Sit on July 24th beginning at 6 am Los Angeles time, 9 am New York time, 2 pm in London, 3 pm in Paris, 4 pm Kyiv time, 4 pm Moscow time.

We will meet in the Treeleaf Now Scheduled Sitting Room: https://www.treeleaf.org/now/go.php?l=ssr

The format of the sitting will be:

- Heart Sutra
- Zazen 40 minutes
- Verse of Atonement
- Four Vows

This time we will recite the Heart Sutra in English.

Gassho,
Washin & Shugen

[Jundo]

Russian missile strikes have hit the southern Ukrainian port of Odesa, just one day after Ukraine and Russia agreed on a deal that would allow the resumption of vital grain exports from the region.

Serhii Bratchuk, a spokesman for the Odessa military administration, said two missiles hit the infrastructure of the port and two were shot down by Ukraine's air defense.
At least six explosions were heard in Odesa, according to Ukrainian member of parliament Oleksiy Goncharenko.
https://us.cnn.com/2022/07/23/europe...ntl/index.html

Gassho, J

STLah

[Meian]

Livestream (one-way) link for Sunday Zazen for Peace:

https://youtu.be/NwbqLkV1iO4

May all weapons cease and be put down.

May peace and healling prevail for ALL

gassho meian

[Washin]

Thank you all for sitting together.

I would like to put those few words I said in the end here because my spoken English
is far from perfect...

It has been already five months since we live in these strange and unusual circumstances.
We try to accept every situation as is, but, on an emotional level, we surely experience many
things. On some days it is the joy of living a simple life, the other days we live through sadness,
grief and pain when hearing more people pass... Every morning I try to wake up with gratefulness
for a new day because we never know what the next day is going to bring us.
However, what we know for sure is that one day it will all become history. The stories of events
to tell our grandchildren about. Thank you...

Gassho
Washin
stlah

[Onkai]

Thank you, Washin, for leading the sit, and for your lovely words of wisdom. You are an inspiration. Thank you everyone for coming together for the sit for peace. May peace prevail soon.

Gassho,
Onkai
Sat lah

[Naiko]

Naiko
st

[Tai Do]

Sat today this beautiful zazen. Thank you very much, Washin, for the zazen and your touching words.
May peace prevail in the world. May all who suffer be free from war and violence.

Mateus
Sat/LAH

[Doshin]

Doshin
St