silent meditation
Wordless inner focus
Silent meditation is a contemplative practice conducted without speaking, chanting, or guided instruction.
The practitioner sits quietly, often focusing on breath or bodily sensations, sometimes for extended periods at retreats where participants maintain silence for days.
She begins each morning with twenty minutes of silent meditation.
The silence distinguishes it from practices involving mantras, music, or a teacher's voice.
- quietLacking in sound
- stillnessComplete lack of motion
- quiet mindAbsence of mental noise
- mindfulnessAwareness of the present
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
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