How does one go beyond the mind?

There are many starting points -they all lead to the same goal.You may begin with selfless work,abandoning the fruits of action;you may then give up thinkingand in the end give up all desires.Here, giving up (tyaga) is the operational factor.Or you may not bother about anything you want,or think, or do and just stay put in the thought and feeling 'I am", focussing 'I am" firmlyin your mind. All kind of experience may come toyou -- remain unmoved in the knowledge that all perceivable is transient,and only the 'I am' endures.

Nisargadatta Maharaj