Sunday Sit with Washin - March 17th, 2024

[Kotei]

Hello everyone,

please join us again this Sunday, sitting for peace in the Ukraine and around the world.
Lead by our Washin from the Ukraine, we are practicing together from the Ukraine and Russia and from all over the world, sitting for peace.

Please be aware that the Ukraine and Europe has not yet changed to DST. Until this happens at the end of this month, the beginning time for those, who already changed will shift an hour.
Please check with the Treeleaf Practice Calendar for your local time, under the listing Sunday Sit (Zazen for Peace): https://www.treeleaf.org/now/#calendar

We meet in the Treeleaf Scheduled Sitting Room: https://www.treeleaf.org/now/go.php?l=ssr password if needed is << dogen >>

A livestream of the meeting can be found here:

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 follow along - come sit with us.

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Jundo]

...

At least 20 killed and scores injured in Russian ‘double tap’ missile strike on Odesa

A Russian missile strike hit civilian infrastructure in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, killing at least 20 people and injuring scores of others in the deadliest attack on the Black Sea port city since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainian officials said Friday.

After the first missile struck Odesa Friday morning, killing and wounding civilians, Ukrainian emergency service personnel who had rushed to the scene were then caught in a second strike, in an attack known as a “double tap” used by Russia throughout more than two years of its war in Ukraine.

“This is the first time a double attack has happened in Odesa region,” Maryna Averina, a spokeswoman for the State Emergency Service in Odesa, told CNN.

“First responders arrived at the site of the strike and immediately began to extinguish the fire, clearing the rubble and searching for victims. And then there was a second missile strike,” she said, adding that eight rescuers had been killed.

Among those killed was Denys Kolesnikov, 25, who worked at a fire station in Odesa, Averina said.

... Russia fired the first missile at around 11 a.m. local time (5 a.m. ET), striking a civilian building and causing a fire to break out, Ukraine’s emergency services said. Rescuers arrived to try to extinguish the fire and search for survivors before being caught in the second strike shortly after.

As well as the 20 killed, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin said that at least 73 people were injured, including seven emergency services personnel.

https://us.cnn.com/2024/03/15/europe...ntl/index.html

Let us sit for all first responders and all victims ...

Gassho, J

stlah

[Shokai]

[Kotei]

Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Washin]

Let us sit for all first responders and all victims ...

Happened just a few blocks away from my place.
The rescuers continue working on the rubble.
The 21st victim died in hospital.
This weekend is an official City's Mourning

Gassho
Washin
stlah

[Geika]

Happened just a few blocks away from my place.
The rescuers continue working on the rubble.
The 21st victim died in hospital.
This weekend is an official City's Mourning

Gassho
Washin
stlah

[Doshin]

Doshin
Stlah