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Head of the Hall this year, it will be the Year of Byeong-o, the full-scale summer of fire. Since the heat will be compounded by the number of Seven Fires, I worry about how the Head of the Hall, the master of the Immortal Being, will be...

is a son, a daughter, a parent, or a child with dreams and aspirations. Their anonymity in death is a tragedy compounded by indifference. If the world mourns one disaster while ignoring another, it reveals not merely a failure of...

is called Dependent Arising. And what, monks, are things dependently arisen? Decay-and-death is impermanent, compounded, dependently arisen, is of a nature to wither away, pass away, fade away and cease. So too is birth, becoming...

into the war, or rather the response after months of Israel’s aggression during a so-called cease-fire, has compounded the effect of this potential dearth. With its missiles and drones reaching cities like Tel Aviv and Haifa daily...