10 Days of Silence
10 min readOct 2, 2020
Ten days of brutal silence at a Vipassana Retreat in New Zealand.
It was 2005. The sedan was advertised on a notice board at a back backer’s hostel off K’ Road in central Auckland. It was a petrol guzzler, charcoal grey, and the headlights pointed down instead of ahead. Irish Yvonne and I didn’t discover this until dusk when we realised, we were driving blind, and by that time, we were lost in native forest in the middle of…
