Can we say that Buddhist meditation is a scientific method?
One may compare Buddhist meditation to a laboratory, which offers the best tools to examine one’s mind in detail. There is no reasonable doubt that all events are interrelated, and it is not possible to observe things in the outer world without changing them. Looking inward at the mental processes where the same laws operate, is just as scientific. In both cases masses of different factors influence one another, but Buddhism adds the dimension of enlightenment. It is beneficial to recognize that there is an unchanging center, an observing space: mind. It is aware and gives us an absolute angle on what is happening. This is not found in other disciplines and brings a massive transformation unique to Buddhism. As one meditates more, one begins to notice what is between and behind one’s thoughts, what knows the thoughts. This process is something completely satisfactory, rich, and wonderful in itself. But then that growing experience of mind being perfect in itself—of not being dependent
