Sunday Sit with Washin - February 23rd, 2025

[Kotei]

Hello everyone,

once again we are coming together, sitting for peace around the world.
Led by our Washin from Odessa, we'll continue this coming Sunday.

You can 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

[Tai Shi]

I am concerned about AI. I had communicated with the Facebook AI in Messenger on my phone, so I reasoned that Facebook had access to my phone conversations and texts. I removed all associated Facebook apps from my phone, and I left it on my iPad, and my computer, not sure if I should be concerned with AI. Artificial Intelligence has come a long way. What do the rest of you think? What about Apple, and Google which have a large presence in the computing world? We each have to ask, what are we willing to put up with? What do the rest of you think? We at Treeleaf Zendo use Microsoft, Apple, or Google. What do you think? They all admit to using AI extensively.
Gassho
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[Jundo]

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Two nights of drone attacks leave thousands in Ukraine's Odesa without power, heat

Russia unleashed a mass drone attack on Ukraine's southern city of Odesa for the second night running on Wednesday, knocking out power for thousands of residents and plunging parts of the city into darkness, the regional governor said.

Governor Oleh Kiper, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the latest night-time strikes had triggered a blackout for some 5,000 residents.
Kiper said nearly 90,000 people had been left in the dark in Odesa district in and around the city from the successive nights of attacks. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a similar number was without heating.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...at-2025-02-19/

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Gassho, J
stlah