The fruit of many centuries 'experience An increasing number of people are beginning to realize that Buddhism is not a "religion" but a "science of mind." According to Sogyal Rinpoche, "For many centuries, the Tibetan way of training the mind has been developed in the Himalayan laboratory."
數世紀的實驗成果在當今，已經越來越多人開始釐清佛教並不是一個「宗教」，而是一種「心靈科學」，以索甲仁波切的說法，自己所繼承與傳授的是「許多世紀以來，西藏在喜馬拉雅山的大實驗室中發展出的禪修智慧」。