I spent the last week of April at a monastery 2 hours east of Oakland, CA. The monastery is on 300 acres of land at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.. where the California gold rush happened in the 19th century.
The retreat was mostly silent. We don't interact at all with other people on the retreat but there are lead group discussions so we do talk occasionally. There are no distractions -- no phone, no books, no internet, no screens, no music. I read the monastery guide book several times just to have something to do. I walked a lot. No distractions is a completely different life experience. Everything slows down. The brain gets louder at first then it slows down too.
It's such a unique experience to live in silence and to not have to be a personality. It was great. I hope to return every year.
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