[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[MHGinTN]

The italicized portion should be clarified: Sometimes there would be a rush of noisy visitors and the silence of the monastery would be shattered. This would upset the disciples; not the Master, who seemed just as content with the noise as with the silence. To his protesting disciples he said one day, “Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.”

The 'Master' in this offering is not the Lord Jesus and the disciples are not the Twelve; the master of the monastery and his disciples is being cited. ... unless the author can cite the Bible verse where Jesus gave this teaching, It is too easy to conflate these different sources.