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The Big Silence
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The Big Silence

11 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Fr Christopher Jamison OSB, a Benedictine monk, speaks directly to participants in Million Minutes, a sponsored silence campaign, offering practical guidance on how to use that time well. He argues that staying quiet is only the first step, and that the harder task is turning outward silence into something deeper, a chance to actually listen rather than just refrain from talking. Drawing on monastic practice, he walks through what that listening involves: noticing the chatter of one's own thoughts, sitting with discomfort instead of reaching for distraction, and treating the silence as an active discipline rather than a passive gap in the day. There is no reenactment or location footage here, just Jamison addressing the camera with the kind of advice he would give a novice monk, adapted for anyone taking part in a one-off charity challenge. It runs short and stays focused on one question: what do you actually do with silence once you have it?