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Kiranada - A Year of Silence (with Q & A): Highlighted Talk

On Wed, 12 June, 2019 - 18:48
Sadayasihi's picture
Sadayasihi

Kiranada is an ordained Buddhist, a traveler, a renowned artist in (cruelty-free) silk, a teacher, an author and a Mom. Here she is at the Portsmouth Public Library in June 2019, reading from her book ‘A Year Of Silence’, an account of her year-long silent, solitary retreat in the New Zealand bush.

As one of her last engagements before heading off to Kentucky and Missouri to begin a further 3-year solitary, silent retreat, this is a wonderful opportunity to hear what it takes to disconnect from physical contact with family and society and take in the great silence of true solitude.

In the tradition of Thoreau and Milarepa, Kiranada’s reflective wit is apparent as she shares excerpts from her retreat journals, and subsequent writing about the experience of meditation and Buddhist practice lived out more fully, free from obligation and all distraction. An essential perspective on space, love, and the opening out of time in an increasingly over-stimulated world!

In this extended edition, Kiranada also answers questions about her past retreat and the one she is about to enter, reflecting further on why she considers this kind of experience as potentially an essential part of anyone’s life.

Recorded at the Portsmouth Public Library, New Hampshire, USA.

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Vajranatha's picture

Looks interesting. Unfortunately soundcloud is inaccessible in countries with poor bandwidth.  

Centre Team's picture

Hi Vajranatha,

Just to let you know that Kiranada’s talk is also available on our Buddhist Voices podcast on Audioboom - see here.

And it’s on Free Buddhist Audio too - so hopefully with one or other of those you’ll be able to listen to it.

With Metta,
Sadayasihi

Vajranatha's picture

Thanks FBA works fine from here