Peace and quiet

Prospective apprentice Can you suggest how I can best proceed with your teaching on meditation when it is almost impossible to find any peace and quiet in my life?

Lamas Peace and quiet. We do not remember saying anything about the need for external peace and quiet. If you are meditating in situations where there is continual noise—that not a problem unless you continually reject that noise. That continual rejection—of course—will destroy any sense of peace, and that will create further noise of its own. We have to be the ‘peace and quiet’, rather than expecting the world to supply it. Even if you were to place yourself in a sensory deprivation chamber, there would be no peace or quiet. You would hear your own body. Your would hear your own ears and see your own eye-lid movies and peace would be impossible. As long as we reject externals as being a problem we will never have peace—either in ourselves or in our environment.