
Living Beyond the Mind: The End of Personal Suffering

In contrast, experience is immediate and transformative. In its purest form, it produces insight—a direct perception that arises without the interference of thought or mental movement.
Troy Valencia • Living Beyond the Mind: The End of Personal Suffering
Experiencing watching the monkey mind. Even feeling the insanity of it. Guide people through it. Don’t talk about it.
The issue isn’t the brain itself; it’s our identification with its activity. We mistake ourselves for the stream of thoughts, becoming lost in the endless flow the brain naturally generates. When we see a river flowing, we don’t try to stop it—we understand that its movement is a natural phenomenon.
Troy Valencia • Living Beyond the Mind: The End of Personal Suffering
it’s essential to approach this work with curiosity, testing its truths for yourself rather than accepting anyone’s words as absolute.
Troy Valencia • Living Beyond the Mind: The End of Personal Suffering
Knowing -- doing --> being
you are accessing the essence of all creation—just as you do when practicing with your hands. The sensations we experience in life are not inherently sadness, grief, anger, or any other emotion; they are simply raw facts—pure expressions of Spirit. The labels we assign to these sensations are constructs of the mind, adding a story or placing them
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This feedback loop—where the mind clings to suffering for a sense of identity and the body becomes chemically dependent on stress—traps
Troy Valencia • Living Beyond the Mind: The End of Personal Suffering
we can observe the development of our relationship with suffering: Suffering is an unexamined and unavoidable constant. It is passively endured, with no questioning or reflection, serving as a persistent backdrop to life. Suffering is unavoidable, and we strive to accept it. Here, suffering is acknowledged as inevitable, and the focus shifts to
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What if what we perceive as a “Soul” is not a singular, permanent entity but a temporary aggregation of interconnected elements? Buddhism suggests just that.
Troy Valencia • Living Beyond the Mind: The End of Personal Suffering
The wave arising in the ocean
the toothpaste isn’t on your face—it’s on the mirror. In the same way, what you suffer from exists only in the mind, not on the true you. When you truly understand this—when you recognize where the distortion actually lies—that moment of understanding initiates its own kind of action, leaving nothing more for you to “do.” Your sole responsibility
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“I am whole. I have simply forgotten what this feels like.”
Troy Valencia • Living Beyond the Mind: The End of Personal Suffering
I am whole and I am in progress of becoming a more integrated whole or of realizing and feeling and being that wholeness