Tonglen Practice Circle - Sunday, March 12, 2023

[Meian]

Hello all,

This Sunday, March 12, 2023, there will be another special guided Tonglen Practice Circle for anyone who wishes to do taking and sending practice for themselves and everyone affected by current world situations and the fear and anxiety that can go with them.

For those who may be new to Tonglen Practice and what it's about, Tonglen is an ancient Practice originating in Tibet, but now adopted by many Zen and other Western Buddhist Sanghas, for the transformation of suffering, anger, sadness and the like within ourselves and in the world, and transforming the same through visualization into peace, joy, acceptance and other positive emotions. For more information about Tonglen, visit Tonglen Instructions at https://tinyurl.com/Tonglen-Instructions

This event will occur in the Scheduled Sitting Room (SSR) at 8pm UK time (UST/GMT) and last for around 35 minutes. The Treeleaf calendar will translate the time into your local time zone at https://www.treeleaf.org/now/#calendar.

***PLEASE NOTE! Daylight Savings Time resumes on Sunday, March 12, in the US and possibly elsewhere -- please check https://www.treeleaf.org/now/#calendar for your local time for Tonglen.***

The Scheduled Sitting Room can be found here: https://www.treeleaf.org/now/go.php?l=ssr

Livestream and "any-time" viewing can be found here: https://youtube.com/live/FhzEB35sEmo?feature=share

All are welcome to join us - we hope to see you there!

Gassho
Washin & Naiko

[Jundo]

This message from Washin ...

This morning at 3 am there was another massive missile and drone attack that caused damage to infrastructure again. The City is back to stabilizing outages until fixed, but the schedule is yet to be known. I am not sure if will be available for the Sunday Sit and Tonglen ...

Russian fires missiles across Ukraine in first attack in 3 weeks; Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa among targets

Russia unleashed a missile barrage targeting energy infrastructure across Ukraine early Thursday, hitting residential buildings and killing at least six people in the largest such attack in three weeks, officials said.

In southern Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is occupied by Russian forces, lost power as a result of the missile attacks, according to nuclear state operator Energoatom. ...

... The governor of the southern Odesa region, Maksym Marchenko, also reported strikes on Odesa, saying that energy facilities and residential buildings were hit. ...

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles...0m/0in/035000c

Gassho,
stlah

[Washin]

I estimate to be here\there..

Gassho
Washin
stlah