Sunday Sit with Washin - November 30., 2025

[Kotei]

Hello everyone,

We are coming together every Sunday out of compassion for those suffering, our hope for peace and our mutual support.
Led by Washin from Odessa, we'll continue sitting for peace in the Ukraine and around the world 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/zendo-ssr/
We meet in the Treeleaf Scheduled Sitting Room: https://www.treeleaf.org/practice-calendar/ 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

[Hokuu]

Kotei I guess the title should say "November 30"


Hokuu
satlah

[Kotei]

Kotei I guess the title should say "November 30"


Hokuu
satlah

Oh, thank you... I was thinking of the Rohatsu weekend and our Rohatsu sit happening at the same time next week.
Thinking about one thing and doing another... I bet there is a teaching somewhere in this :-D
Bows,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Jundo]

By the way, GOOD NEWS from Japan this week. Do you know the Ukranian Sumo wrestler Aonishiki? He won his first Basho (two-week seasonal tournament) ...Just promoted to Ozeki (second highest rank), he is likely to be promoted to Yokozuna in the future (Grand Champion, the highest rank, a god-like status in the Sumo world)

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Ukrainian sumo wrestler Danylo Yavhusishyn on Sunday became the first from his nation to win a tournament of the traditional Japanese sport.

The 21-year-old, who fled the war in Ukraine three years ago, won the Kyushu tournament after a tie-breaking victory over grand champion Hoshoryu from Mongolia.

Known by his ring name Aonishiki Arata and speaking fluent Japanese, he told fans at Fukuoka Kokusai Center in his televised victory interview that he was glad that he was able to show his usual performance.

"I am happy that I am able to achieve a goal of mine," he said.

Yavhusishyn, who arrived in Japan three years ago after fleeing Ukraine, has climbed the sumo ranks at record speed.

The Japan Sumo Association will soon hold a special meeting to promote him to ozeki, the second highest ranking under yokozuna, or grand champion, NHK said.

He competed in the world junior sumo championships as a teenager but left Ukraine after Russia's February 2022 invasion.

He arrived in Japan two months later and made a blistering start to his career, reaching sumo's upper divisions in only a year and winning promotion to the fourth-highest rank.

Yavhusishyn was born in central Ukraine and took up sumo at the age of 7, becoming a national champion at 17.

His age meant he narrowly avoided Ukraine's military draft for men aged 18 and older when war broke out and he sought refuge in Germany before moving to Japan.

His parents stayed in Germany and he arrived in Japan knowing nothing of the language.

Yavhusishyn became the second Ukraine-born professional sumo wrestler when he made his debut in July 2023, following in the footsteps of compatriot Serhii Sokolovskyi, better known as Shishi.

Yavhusishyn's promotion to sumo's upper divisions was the fifth fastest since the current system of six tournaments a year was introduced in 1958.

The ambitious wrestler said he now has his sights set on reaching the top of the sumo hierarchy.

"I am happy (now) but there is one higher status. I want to work toward that," he said.

LINK

You can watch him here ...
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Gassho, J
stlah

[Jundo]

The announcement yesterday of Aonishiki's promotion to Ozeki ...

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Gassho, J
stlah