I think that’s right.
Christianity centers around a thinking, actively good God.
Buddhism believes not so much in a higher being, as in inner peace. In order to avoid being reincarnated as a cockroach.
What I don’t understand about Buddhism is though (and I don’t actually disagree with Buddhism as a way to live one’s life), how is reincarnation based on how one lives life on Earth, if there is no God deciding your score?
How does that actually happen?
mirrors ?
Pure Buddhism is agnostic, if not atheist. Buddhist reincarnation is not the same as Hindi reincarnation- there is no governing power and ultimately there really is no ‘you’.
In Buddhism what you are is a momentary accumulation of matter, ideas, motivations, wants, desires, ect that is constantly changing. As such your reincarnation is the effects your actions have: do bad things make bad effects, do good things make bad effects, do perfectly nothing and achieve nirvana.
Buddhism then is perfecting the art of stillness and emptiness in meditation. A Buddhist meditation is to be acutely aware of your surroundings and not react to them, and aware of your motivations and desires to clear yourself of them.