The Mind Is the Master of the Body

The Mind Is the Master of the Body

 

The Mind is the master of the body. My mind is the master of my flesh. My flesh is the outer casing, and the master of my flesh is my mind.

 

If my mind desires to travel somewhere, my body is simply taken along. ①If my mind wants to scratch an itch, then that spot on my body must be scratched. If my mind becomes enraged and resolves, “I must hit that person,” then my body strikes that person. The body is the servant of the mind.

 

During their lifetime, a person functions as a person through the union of the mind-soul and the flesh. In death, a person no longer possesses the flesh, yet ②their spirit still functions as an entity. What, then, is the difference between a person and a spirit? ③A person is “an entity with flesh”; a spirit is “an entity without flesh.”