Do you have any interest in the philosophies of introflection pioneered by Buddhism?

[Belacqua]

I have always been quite introspective, without the need of an unnecessary belief system.

Buddhism is neat like that where you can just apply the philosophy without any deistic preferences.

Recently, just by chance, I was reading about a guy called Thomas Keating, who started what seems to be a Christianized version of Buddhist meditation. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centering_prayer

Apparently there are also meditative practices in East Orthodox monasteries that closely resemble this, though I don't know if there's direct Buddhist influence there. 

Are these the kind of introspective practices you're thinking of here? 

I do think that making a habit of such meditation would be a really healthy thing to do. Unfortunately when I tried I was really bad at it. 

And as we can see, in the neoliberal bourgeois culture we have now, such practices can only be accepted if they are shown to have utilitarian therapeutic value. And then I think they have become something different from what they started out as.