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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: For contemplation, not action, is the Far Oriental's ideal of life.
The repose of self-adjustment like that to which our whole solar
system is slowly tending as its death,--this to him appears, though
from no scientific deduction, the end of all existence. So he sits
and ponders, abstractly, vaguely, upon everything in general,
--synonym, alas, to man's finite mind, for nothing in particular,--
till even the sense of self seems to vanish, and through the
mist-like portal of unconsciousness he floats out into the vast
indistinguishable sameness of Nirvana's sea.
At first sight Buddhism is much more like Christianity than those of
us who stay at home and speculate upon it commonly appreciate. As a
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