by Ajahn Nisabho | Aug 18, 2026 | News
Join Clear Mountain’s monks as they inaugurate their move to the new monastery land through a three-day walking pilgrimage, Saturday, Aug. 29 – Monday, Aug. 31, from Saint Mark’s Cathedral to Clear Mountain Monastery in North Bend. The full schedule, with stops, may...
by Ajahn Nisabho | Aug 18, 2026 | News
Please enjoy this free version of the Tricycle article about Clear Mountain; apologies for the incorrect link in the previous newsletter. Sadhu! Access Free...
by Ajahn Nisabho | Aug 18, 2026 | News
Hello Clear Mountaineers! This summer has been especially bright with our fourth annual Almsgiving ceremony bringing together our community with 17 Buddhist monastics, visits from our Thai Elders, and several retreats (you can see photos here). After a busy...
by Ajahn Nisabho | Aug 18, 2026 | News
Dear Clear Mountaineers, With spring, we look towards the next phase of creating the monastery, complete with numerous upcoming events! Apart from the previously-announced teachings (see below), we also have motioned towards the monastery’s next phase in the...
by Trenton Kirchberg | Jul 21, 2026 | Photo Galleries
by Trenton Kirchberg | May 7, 2026 | Photo Galleries
by Milo Anderson | Jan 13, 2026 | Photo Galleries
by Milo Anderson | Oct 27, 2025 | Photo Galleries
by Clear Mountain Monastic | Jul 12, 2025 | Writings
Ven. Kunga, visiting from Sravasti Abbey, speaks about her experience with Clear Mountain during the annual Almsgiving Celebration in June of 2025. The community’s warmth and welcome were heralds of a greater summer! A photo album of this, and other events, can...
by Trenton Kirchberg | Jul 12, 2025 | Photo Galleries
by Angela Gizzi | Jun 3, 2025 | Photo Galleries
by Trenton Kirchberg | Jan 15, 2025 | Photo Galleries
by Angela Gizzi | Jul 25, 2024 | Photo Galleries
by Ajahn Kovilo | Jun 11, 2024 | Ajahn Kovilo, Essays, Writings
Download PDF * This is the text of “The Wellbeing Cascade: Natural Passages Through Pāmojja”, a book featuring all instances of the wellbeing cascade in the Pāli Canon. Click here for the related article, “Wellbeing Cascading: Radical Attention and...
by Ajahn Kovilo | Jun 11, 2024 | Ajahn Kovilo, Essays, Writings
Download PDF Download EPUB * This is the text of the book “Thus Should You Train Yourselves”, an exhaustive survey of the Buddha’s exhortations from the Pāli Canon addressed in the form “Thus … should you train yourselves”. Click here for the companion...
by Ajahn Kovilo | May 29, 2024 | Ajahn Kovilo, Essays, Writings
* This is an article on the causality of wellbeing (pāmojja), written as Ajahn Kovilo’s senior thesis for graduation from the Dharma Realm Buddhist University. Click here for the related book, “The Wellbeing Cascade: Natural Passages Through...
by Trenton Kirchberg | May 23, 2024 | Photo Galleries
by Trenton Kirchberg | Jan 10, 2024 | Photo Galleries
by Ajahn Nisabho | Aug 11, 2023 | Photo Galleries
by Ajahn Kovilo | Aug 11, 2023 | Ajahn Kovilo, Essays, Writings
“‘The days and nights are relentlessly passing; how well am I spending my time?’ This should be reflected upon again and again by one who has gone forth.” (AN 10.48) Introduction There are an infinite number of ways that we could count our time. In one discourse (AN...
by Ajahn Nisabho | Jul 4, 2023 | Photo Galleries
To watch the ceremony in-full, see the following playlist on Clear Mountain’s YouTube channel. May all beings be...
by Ajahn Nisabho | Jan 17, 2023 | Writings
Clear Mountain’s pilgrims, both in person and in heart, set a strong intention for our future, ending 2022 at the feet of the masters and under the seat of the Buddha. Here, they recount their experiences. Clear Mountain’s Aspiration Through the merit of our...
by Ajahn Nisabho | Jan 15, 2023 | Photo Galleries
For a more detailed account of the journey, see the article, At the Feel of the Masters: Pilgrims’ Reflections from Thailand & Bodh Gaya. May all beings be...
by Ajahn Nisabho | Nov 24, 2022 | Ajahn Nisabho, Writings
Clear Mountain’s first year-and-a-half gave rise to a community inspired by the shared vision of a monastic presence near Seattle. We look now towards finding a physical home for the monastery and the refuge it might become for all who need it. In 2007, Gene...
by Ajahn Nisabho | Nov 9, 2022 | Photo Galleries
by Ajahn Nisabho | Aug 18, 2022 | Photo Galleries
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by Ajahn Kovilo | Jan 17, 2022 | Ajahn Kovilo, Essays, Writings
In Pali, there is a specific word for the feeling you get when you see a YouTube video of a five-year old giving his new toy fire engine to a homeless child on the street. It’s the same emotion you get when you’re meditating with your non-Buddhist sibling...
by Ajahn Nisabho | Dec 11, 2021 | Ajahn Nisabho, Writings
Members of the community come to meet Tan Nisabho during his daily alms round at Pike Place Market in late November. Autumn came with a middle-aged woman who sat down with us one Saturday morning at a cafe and began to speak about her daughter’s death. The mornings...
by Ajahn Kovilo | Nov 18, 2021 | Ajahn Kovilo, Essays, Writings
This interview with Ajahn Kovilo – centering around his experience as a monastic university student – took place at Dharma Realm Buddhist University in October of 2021 and was originally published on their website, here. Venerable Ajahn Kovilo, a fully ordained...
by Ajahn Nisabho | Oct 21, 2021 | Photo Galleries
by Ajahn Kovilo | Oct 11, 2021 | Ajahn Kovilo, Translations
“Monks, these four types of people who are capable, educated, and self-possessed, who have studied much, memorized the teachings, and have practiced the teachings according with the teachings make the assembly shine bright.What four? 1) A monk who is capable,...
by Ajahn Nisabho | Sep 30, 2021 | Photo Galleries
by Ajahn Nisabho | Aug 20, 2021 | Ajahn Nisabho, Writings
I arrived in Seattle in late June and took up residence in a small hut behind the house of a couple, Dave and Alison, who offered the space to me in an act of great generosity. Their home rests in a quiet suburb on the Kitsap peninsula, a short ferry ride across the...
by Ajahn Kovilo | Aug 1, 2020 | Ajahn Kovilo, Essays, Writings
Memorization Tools Seminar - Abhayagiri 2019 | Ajahn Kovilo https://www.clearmountain.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Memory_Seminar_2019.mp3 Click here to watch a companion video called “Dhamma Mnemonics” on YouTube. “Whatever a person frequently thinks...
by Ajahn Nisabho | May 25, 2018 | Ajahn Nisabho, Writings
My plan was to walk from Escondido, a town South of LA, to Metta Forest Monastery by a circuitous route totaling about ninety miles and passing through Thich Nacht Hahn’s Deer Park Monastery. Things started badly. Greyhound kindly scheduled my trip to Escondido...
by Ajahn Nisabho | Sep 1, 2015 | Ajahn Nisabho, Writings
While I had expected tudong, the traditional practice of Buddhist monks wandering on foot, to be a challenge in rural Australia, I didn’t think the first day of my monastic walkabout would end in an ambulance. As Tan Panya, my traveling companion, and I sit in...
