On a typical weekday morning, two saffron-robed monks walk silently into Pike Place Market, alms bowls in hand to accept gifts of food for their one meal of the day. They touch no money. They have no idea what, if anything, they’ll be offered. And yet in five years of doing this they have not gone hungry a single day. This is Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho, cofounders of Clear Mountain Monastery, a new Theravada Buddhist forest monastery taking …
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