[harimau777]

What would the alternative methods be?

[avindroth]

Either eclectic modern clinical psychology (introspective methods) or taoism. But both are hard to learn through texts sadly (anything important really is)

psych: https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Emotional-Brain-Eliminating... https://www.amazon.com/Gestalt-Therapy-Excitement-Growth-Per...

taoism: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003T0G9E4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... but really, search for a master

[dnate]

That sounds like you replaced one belief system with another. It is hard for me to see that one is necessarily better or "truer" than the other.

[mooseburger]

Trying out belief systems is like choosing programming languages: rather hard to appraise them without actually trying to build something and run it in your wetware computer.

[avindroth]

heliocentrism and geocentrism are also belief systems.

it’s choosing one that gives better results (and makes more sense).

you already have an implicit belief system, too

[mooseburger]

I would argue you can just read this: https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakr...

Advaita Vedanta is rather similar to Taoism.

[avindroth]

...?

Just did a very cursory reading, sounds nothing like Laozi.

[mooseburger]

From what I remember of Laozi, he also describes entering an indescribable state of mind. Zhuangzu also explores themes of accepting the world as is, and accepting death.