Silent Epistemology: Embodied Intersubjectivity in Zazen
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) May 1, 2026 Nicholas J Watkins
Silence is often treated as a communicative void, a suspension of meaning, or a disruption of social connection. This dissertation challenges that assumption through an ethnographic study of zazen (seated meditation) at the Bristol Zen Dojo, where silence is not the absence of sociality but its medium. Through sensory ethnography and phenomenological analysis, the findings reveal that shared...