Sunday Sit with Washin - March 1st, 2026

[Kotei]

Hello everyone,

we are meeting again the coming weekend, coming together out of compassion for those suffering, our hope for peace and our mutual support throughout the year.

Led by Washin from Odessa, we'll be 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/practice-calendar/

We meet in the Treeleaf Scheduled Sitting Room:

https://www.treeleaf.org/zendo-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

[Washin]

Hello Kotei,

FYI, we are having chaotic outages as the system is unstable and fragile.
In case one of them falls onto our sit, I will do it from the phone. Hope it will work.

Gassho
Washin

[Kotei]

Hello Kotei,

FYI, we are having chaotic outages as the system is unstable and fragile.
In case one of them falls onto our sit, I will do it from the phone. Hope it will work.

Thank you Washin. Looking forward to seeing you in person again.
I will be there ready to jump in, in case something doesn't work.
Gassho,
Kotei sat/lah today.

[Jundo]

From recent days ...

'Without ports, Ukraine will be destroyed': Odesa buckles under Russian bombs: The attacks are accepted as part of daily life for the city of around 1 million people, dotted with ornate 19th-century architecture and where luxury cars pass mobile air defense units along the bustling seaside.

ODESA, Ukraine (AFP) — Looking out at the blue and yellow cranes towering over the Black Sea horizon, Viktor Berestenko worries about the relentless Russian bombardment of Odesa, Ukraine’s southern port city.

“It’s war, every night,” the head of the Inter Trans logistics company told AFP.

The main gateway to the Black Sea and beyond, Odesa is a key logistics hub for Ukraine, one of the world’s top agricultural exporters.

Russia has intensified its attacks on the region — tripling the number of missile and drone strikes over the last year in what officials call an attempt to cut Ukraine off from the sea.

“Without ports, Ukraine will be destroyed,” said Berestenko.

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Incoming ballistic missiles can hit Odesa within 2 minutes of being launched from Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.

It takes some 45 seconds for a crane operator to climb down, let alone reach a shelter, Berestenko said.

He scrolled through photos on his phone of burned-out trucks and warehouses damaged by strikes.

“It’s scary, to put it briefly,” said Iryna, who works at the port’s container terminal.

“When the alarm sounds, we go down … we put our trust in God,” the 41-year-old said. “Sometimes alerts can last for three hours, and we sit there.”

Several strikes have killed port employees or ship crew members.

In December, a ballistic missile attack killed eight people.

The strikes also have an environmental toll. Last year an attack on the nearby port of Pivdennyi hit a sunflower oil storage tank, polluting the Black Sea coast.

Thousands of birds and seahorses were killed as a result, ecologist Vladyslav Belinsky said.

https://www.courthousenews.com/without-ports-ukraine-will-be-destroyed-odesa-buckles-under-russian-bombs/