Sunday Sit (Zazen for Peace) - Sunday, October 8th, 2023

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Hello Global Sangha,

Please Join Us as we continue to sit, dedicating our sincere Zazen for peace, children, and the injured in Ukraine and around the world, for an end to violence, war, suffering, hunger, poverty, oppression, and more.

We will gather for the Sunday Sit on Sunday, October 8th, 2023, beginning at 6am Los Angeles time, 9am New York time, 2pm in London, 3pm in Paris, 4pm Kyiv time, and 4pm Moscow time.

You can check the Treeleaf Calendar for your local time here: https://www.treeleaf.org/now/#calendar

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

Livestream and "any-time" recording can be found here: https://youtu.be/3L5hcr-SK_I


The format of the sitting will be:

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

ALL are welcome! Please, join us! No prior experience is required -- just come sit with us.

Washin and "Zazen for Peace" team

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Sitting and Metta for all victims of war and other senseless violence ...

At least 51 people have been killed in a Russian strike that hit a grocery store near Kupiansk Thursday, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said, adding that the latest fatality came after one of the injured people died while receiving treatment.

The death toll may rise as the rubble is still being cleared, according to Dmytro Chubenko, a spokesperson with the Prosecutor’s Office in Kharkiv region.

Shortly after 1 p.m. local time, Russian forces shelled a cafe and shop in the village of Hroza in the Kupiansk district, according to Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv region military administration. Hroza is about 40 kilometers (24 miles) from the frontlines near Kupiansk.

The strike appears to be the deadliest against Ukraine's civilian population since an attack on Kramatorsk railway station early in 2022. ...

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There wasn't a single military target in the village hit by devastating Russian strike, investigator says
From CNN's Vasco Cotovio, Radina Gigova and Svitlana Vlasova

There was not "a single military object" in Hroza when a Russian missile struck the eastern Ukrainian village Thursday, killing 51 civilians, according to a top police official.

"All the people are local residents, all the people are civilians. Not a single military, not a single military object, not a single military vehicle. All the dead and wounded people are civilians," Sergey Bolvinov, the chief investigator with Kharkiv's regional police, told CNN.

https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-...-23/index.html

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