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What would the alternative methods be?

• avindroth 7y ago
  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-Reconsolidation/dp/0415897173 https://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Emotional-Brain-Eliminating... https://www.amazon.com/Gestalt-Therapy-Excitement-Growth-Personality-ebook/dp/B0051R9XPK https://www.amazon.com/Gestalt-Therapy-Excitement-Growth-Per... taoism: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003T0G9E4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003T0G9E4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... but really, search for a master
  • dnate 7y ago
    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 7y ago
      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 7y ago
      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 7y ago
    I would argue you can just read this: https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakra-gita.html https://realization.org/p/ashtavakra-gita/richards.ashtavakr... Advaita Vedanta is rather similar to Taoism.
    • avindroth 7y ago
      ...? Just did a very cursory reading, sounds nothing like Laozi.
      • mooseburger 7y ago
        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.