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 system of philosophy it sounds exceedingly foreign, but it looks unexpectedly familiar as a faith.

Indeed, the one religion might well pass for the counterfeit presentment of the other.

The resemblance so struck the early Catholic missionaries that they felt obliged to explain the remarkable similarity between the two.

With them ingenuous surprise instantly begot ingenious sophistry.