It seems to me that suffering largely depends on different levels of your being present and in tune with your body’s sensations. The less you are, the more you suffer.
Your body is walking on this earth, not your mind. Mind is a feedback of your experience.
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The echo of a sound will never apply anything the original sound didn’t include. Being only a reaction, how could the mind then know anything the body doesn’t? All of its reference points are in the past, which is just a narrow collection of lifeless memories.
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Your body reacts to the present moment and your mind follows. Here it gets a reference point. Mind uses it as a warning in similar situations later on. But the catch is that life is always unpredictable, doesn’t depend on the past, and every moment in it is unique...
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...and in each moment, your body reacts to the present with no delay! So why then would you need to depend on your mind?
You only need to trust the wisdom of your body. It is an amazing organism which maintains itself perfectly without needing to know how it does it.