Christianity and Buddhism are the same!

Woke this morning with this strong absolute realisation. People often fudge this and say they are similar, and other people make broad statements that all religions are just faces of the same godhead. But here I say that the methods of Christianity are the same as Buddhism.

Nonsense. Christianity has no meditation. Christianity has no chanting. Christianity has no theory of mind. Christianity believes in God while Buddhism does not. Christianity concludes with the devotee living in heaven, while Buddhism ends in Nibbana with the true self freed from all fetters including self. So where is the similarity. I present two.

(1) God made the world in Christianity. This maps exactly onto Vipassana meditation. As a Christian/Jew or Muslim we understand that the whole world was made by God. Now the accountants of the science world have started an endless book keeping project to record every cause and effect and look for patterns but this is all irrelevant to understanding the true nature of the universe. God made the world (GMTW) has a very important implication: I did not. This means that all things are not me. This is anatta in Buddhism There is no point in any further theoretical discussion of God's involvement in the world because all we need to note is that none of it is me.

Looking at a star in the sky this is obviously not me. But the thumb at the end of your left hand? Well actually obviously that is not me either. We might say it is mine but it is not me. So what about a thought? well its the same that is made by the world in the same way as anything else. It is not a part of me. Now we could start to think that "me" is an epiphenomenon of the world. But any epiphenomenon would be made by God as well. However we can't say "I am made by God" because I am not a thing. This is where Buddhism continues the debate much further than Christianity. But the point is the same not to confuse ourselves with the world and not claim things which are Gods for our self.

(2) 

Turning from God is turning to the Self. The correct approach is to humble the I to God and live in accordance to God. God, as we see above, is the world. This is actually much more subtle. Yahweh means "I AM." We are saying that the small "i am"  of the individual self should humble itself to the great singular "I AM." Much has been written about this in Hinduism in particular. In all cases the path is to seek to base our lives on the "I AM" and not be limited to the "i am." In a trivial way having a world governed by a billion "i" is chaos. Even Adam Smith acknowledges that "free market" must exist within a singular law. The "I AM" is the great law.