Just as the commentator says above there are many forms of meditation and contemplation in Buddhism.  The widespread development of Buddhism actually came about not so much by those with the capacity for deep meditation but rather the masses of the people who intuitively could grasp the purity of the Buddha's behavior, what he actually stood for and the essence of his belief: awakening to the eternity of the correct Dharma within his own life.  This is why in the Lotus Sutra  -  the teaching wherein the entire means, methods and concluding principle of the Buddha's ministry is drawn together within a 28 chapter schema -  we find, in the chapter where the Buddha seeks to insure the future of his essential teaching by extolling the benefit of practicing with the same intent as the Buddha and exhorting his disciples to do so in the period after his passing, he states:

Like branches of a small tree
Being blown by a great wind.
Through this skillful means
I enable the Dharma to abide forever.
I tell the great assembly
That after my nirvana
Whoever can preserve and recite this sutra
Should now individually make a declaration
In the presence of the buddhas  

O heirs of the buddhas!
Whoever is able to preserve the Dharma
Should make a great vow
So that it may abide forever.
Whoever is able to preserve
The teaching of this sutra
Will thus honor me
And Prabhūtaratna.

It is hard to preserve this sutra.
If anyone preserves it
Even for a single moment,
I shall truly rejoice.
All of the other buddhas
Will do so also.
Such people as these
Are praised by the buddhas.
They are courageous.
They are persevering.
They are known as those
Who follow the rules of good conduct
And carry out ascetic practices.
Subsequently they quickly attain
The highest buddha path.
Those in the future
Who recite and preserve this sutra,
Are the true heirs of the Buddha
And abide in the stage of purity.
Those who can understand its meaning
After the Buddha’s nirvana
Will become the Eyes of the World. 

In effect, the Buddha in his final teaching states that those who uphold the Buddha's final and highest teaching are observing all the teachings of the Buddha. They are the one's who get it; who understand the full range of the Buddha's ministry and correctly observe all the Buddha's Laws of wisdom. This means that to observe, uphold, recite, spread and teach others the wisdom of the Lotus Sutra itself (the essential teaching) is itself the correct practice of Buddhism. This principle especially rings true in the latter ages after the Buddha Dharma has spread, having taken on many perspectives, interpretations, modes of authority within society itself, a time when the Buddha would become watered down, compromised, conflicted, obscured and lost, the Buddha predicts that this would be the proper time to return to the Buddha's most essential principle, practice and uphold it in the face of much opposition and hostility. This is a time when one can reap the full reward of the correct Buddhist practice., by returning to the primary practice.