That is what I had read as well, Buddhism in a way is no different from practicing The Power of Positive Thinking.
And how can a Buddhist become “ordained”?
For every disciple in search of authority, there is someone willing to sell it to him.
Which is also contrary to Christianity.
In Buddhist usage, Buddhist monks are ‘ordained to the monkhood’. There may be other usages.
Actually, if one makes the Christian distinction between the created and the Uncreated, and realize that all phenomena, the “this-or-that” that Buddhism calls on us to reject are part of the created (including the distinctions between being and nothingness, unity and multiplicity, and indeed between immanence and transcendence), the Buddha’s insights, applied to the created, are quite compatible with following Christ. (Yes, even his attitude toward ‘gods’—it really is irrelevant to our lives whether there are or are not the sort of beings the Hindus call ‘gods’. Either way we should be following Christ.)
The Buddha’s greatest failing was that he did not see through the erroneous Hindu doctrine of reincarnation, and reject it. His understanding of the connection between desire and suffering is echoed by the Fathers of the Church in their discussions of the passions and their relation to sin.
The Buddha and Lao Tsu (and to a lesser extent Zoaraster), along with the neo-Platonists whose use of ‘Logos’ influenced St. John the Theologian to take up and fill the word with a new divinely inspired depth, are worthy of some honor among Christians: before the coming of Christ, without benefit of direct divine revelation, all of them managed to escape to some degree from the mental structures of paganism (the base religious state of Fallen Man) and move, however haltingly, toward the truth. (In Lao Tsu’s case, I would even dare to say toward The Truth. Read the Tao Te Ching with the thought that the Tao is a person. Only one fits: Jesus Christ.)
Still, there is something sad about a purported Christian clergyman not seeing analogous insights, deeper insights by virtue of the benefit of divine revelation, among the Fathers of the Church, and chasing after the Buddha’s outdated and halting attempt. The Desert Fathers in the generation after the persecutions stopped had insights to equal and surpass all the Zen masters—who are the finest Buddhism has to offer, who arose only after centuries of refinement of Buddhist tradition under the influence of Taoism.