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Silent retreat basics

6 steps · about 1 hr 10 min

Silence is a schedule as much as a mood. These pieces describe silent insight days, body-scan audio, and teachers from that lineage — so a first booking is less of a guess.

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Steps

About 1 hr 10 min total · 6 steps

Step 1Digest10 min
What to expect on a silent insight retreat
Orientation before the schedule fills the day.
Step 2Digest8 min
What a silent retreat day feels like
The texture of hours when speech steps aside.
Step 3Guide10 min
What the days are like
A broader retreat-day frame that still applies in silence.
Step 4Audio20 min
Vipassana body scan
A practice many silent retreats return to again and again.
Step 5Teacher8 min
Joseph Goldstein
Insight talks that pair with long sits.
Step 6Reading15 min
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
A short book for arriving without needing to be an expert.

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