Your body

[Parthon]

So I was pondering why riding, that my body isn't even my body. I mean, I understood it on an intellectual level, I have even felt it on a spiritual level, but I haven't incorporated it on the physical level.

Now I could go on for years about how you should do what's right and that thin feels better than fat and all that, but considering the wider impact of who you are, and what the world is like, then aren't you just the driver of your vehicle. Worse than that, your body is a living vehicle, full of unique cells with their own intelligence, and own being. Would that mean we then owe it to our body, not just to treat it well, but to do our best for it? It's our willing instrument and that's the reason why we should take care of it, not because it's ours, but because we are it's steward.

Just some thoughts.

[Rawvolta]

Ha! Love the thread!

Some time ago I was regularly an active part of Diamond Way Buddhism.
Lot's of visualisations and mind work.
And of course the teaching about HOW I AM NOT MY BODY and so on ( huge topic , don't want to write about it here )
Anyways, even if I love all my friends from that time because of experiences that we all had, at some point I started separating myself from them because of HOW THEY ARE UNATTACHED or dis-attached with their bodies, or even farther - how they ABUSE THEY BODIES.

I eventually have stopped going to buddhist retreats , because I could not stop judging them mentally for whatever they do to their TEMPLE.

I see it in a lot of spiritual people.
There is still this concept about being holy on a mental/spiritual level.
The concept of not taking care of the physical body as an unnecessary or even sinful activity.

First of all - because, for example, raw foodists, at certain point usually develop some spiritual antenas, I believe that everything one is putting into the body has an impact on other bodies ( mental, spiritual, astral, or whatever one wants to call them ). It is obvious on a small level --- > heavy meal = heavy head.
Somehow it does not work the other way; so many of my friends that are spiritual teachers might be overweight and even refuse to hear about the help I might have for them.

That is why I am sure that THE FOOD IS THE MAJOR CAUSE OF OUR OVERALL HEALTH. It impacts everything in our life.

Some people don't believe in Mind ( spiritual life etc. )- Body ( diet, exercise , etc.) connection.
Than, I like to say to the boys for example the story:
NOW, imagine this nice, hot chick , sitting on you with or without lingerie, or in front of you or above you.....
And tell me now... Is there a Mind Body connection or not..?!

[silicon toad2000]

I agree with the whole drivers of our body, I don't know about stewardship. Stewardship implies to me that we are going to me passing it on at some point in the future.
Drivers resonates with me a whole lot more. If you know you cant just buy a new car, then you look after it, wash, polish, vacuum, change the oil and filters and it'll last. Other wise it's going to be a dreadul ride those last million miles in a clapped out old bucket. Imagine that, going a million miles in an old clunker where the radio only get that weird ethnic station, the suspension is shot, the ball joints are knackered, every time you hit a bump the car changes lanes by itself, the seats worn out and a spring keep poking you in the but when you turn left...