Zazen Sitting for Peace - Sunday, March 12 - An Hour with Washin, from Ukraine

[Meian]

Hello all,

Please Join Us as we continue to sit for Peace, Children and the Injured in Ukraine and around the World.

We will gather for the Sunday Sit on March 12, 2023, beginning at 6 am Los Angeles time, 9 am New York time, 2 pm in London, 3 pm in Paris, 4 pm Kyiv time, and 4 pm Moscow time. You can check the Treeleaf Calendar for your local time at https://www.treeleaf.org/now/#calendar

***PLEASE NOTE: Daylight Savings Time resumes in the United States (USA) on Sunday, March 12! Please check https://www.treeleaf.org/now/#calendar to double check your local time for Sunday Sit.***

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

Livestream and "any-time" viewing can be found here: https://youtube.com/live/78QNxLp-FX0?feature=share
The format of the sitting will be:

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

Gassho
Washin & Shugen, with Kotei

[Jundo]

This message from Washin ...

This morning at 3 am there was another massive missile and drone attack that caused damage to infrastructure again. The City is back to stabilizing outages until fixed, but the schedule is yet to be known. I am not sure if will be available for the Sunday Sit and Tonglen ...

Russian fires missiles across Ukraine in first attack in 3 weeks; Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa among targets

Russia unleashed a missile barrage targeting energy infrastructure across Ukraine early Thursday, hitting residential buildings and killing at least six people in the largest such attack in three weeks, officials said.

In southern Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is occupied by Russian forces, lost power as a result of the missile attacks, according to nuclear state operator Energoatom. ...

... The governor of the southern Odesa region, Maksym Marchenko, also reported strikes on Odesa, saying that energy facilities and residential buildings were hit. ...

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230309/p2g/00m/0in/035000c

Gassho,
stlah

[Meian]

stlh

[Shujin]

I will join you on Sunday, and continue to sit for those affected by war in Ukraine and across the world.

Gassho,
Shujin

sat today