The place for meditation

It will be most helpful to your practice if you have a special place exclusively for your
practice of meditation. Your mind will begin to associate that place with meditation and will
more easily enter a quiet and peaceful state when you sit there. If you can set aside an entire
room for practicing meditation, or even a large well-ventilated closet, that is good, but just an
area in a room is adequate. The important thing is that the area be devoted exclusively to your
meditation.
Your meditation place should be as quiet as possible. As a rule earplugs are not recommended
for the practice of meditation since you can become distracted by the sensation of pressure in
the ears, or the chirping, cricket-like noises that go on all the time in the ears, or the sound of
your heartbeat. But if you need them, use them. Your place of meditation should ideally be a
place where you can most easily forget outer distractions, but if it is not, you can still manage
to practice meditation successfully.