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The question is whether you want to liberate yourself. If you do, practice the Noble Eightfold Path. Wherever the Noble Eightfold Path is practiced, joy, peace and insight are there.
Buddha
The Eightfold Path
Damien KeownThe Noble Eightfold Path – The Way to the End of Suffering
Bhikkhu BodhiThe Noble Eightfold Path
Ajahn JagaroBack to Basics Chan and The Eightfold Path
Rev. Chuan Zhi ShakyaEightfold Path for the Householder – Ten talks
Jack Kornfield
The essence of the Buddha's teaching can be summed up in two principles: the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. The Fourth Noble Truth—the truth of the way, the way to the end of Dukkha—is the Noble Eightfold Path, the path made up of the following eight factors divided into three larger groups:
wisdom
1. right view
2. right intention
moral discipline
3. right speech
4. right action
5. right livelihood
concentration
6. right effort
7. right mindfulness
8. right concentration
We say that the path is the most important element in the Buddha's teaching because the path is what makes the Dhamma available to us as a living experience. Without the path the Dhamma would just be a shell, collection of doctrines without inner life. Without the path full deliverance from suffering would become a mere dream.