The number of people from industrial, government and academic circles is really a small minority, and the number of people who have been through Chan meditation at the Nung Chan Temple is not more than 20,000 or 30,000. Among these, not even as many as one-tenth continue to practice.
「只是一個幻覺」，聖嚴法師表示，商政界學禪者只佔其中少數，而在農禪寺學過禪坐的不過二、三萬人，其中更是不到十分之一繼續修習。