I used to be a seminarian, a Roman Catholic one. As such, I had to do my bit of meditation and also reading about such things, mostly from Spanish traditions (St Juan de la Cruz, St Ignacio..), Polish and even Russian (via The Way of the Pilgrim)

It struck me how similar the means of spirituality are everywhere, even though the Theology or Faith, times and countries can be so different.

Personally, the Lectio Divina, (i.e. the reading of the Bible as a monk reads it) was my "thing". But still I needed to quiet my mind, in that I would not have been much different from any, young, untrained, wild, Buddhist monk.

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

Oh, wow, how interesting. Never even heard of the "Lectio Divina" before.

I agree there's much similarity, especially in what I've come to believe matters most.

Now that I think about it, the degree of similarity of a tenet to one in one or - preferably - more other "ways" has become a litmus test for my considering something of spiritual value.