(Tao Te Ching - 13)
It is an odd trick of language and of logic to separate the "mind" from the "body". It is the body that is alive, that feels, that experiences; the nervous system and the central nervous system are simply parts of the means by which it does so - and the "mind" is an "illusion" created by the functioning of those systems. Our intelligence and our meaning gymnastics should recognise their visceral roots - the body is indeed precious for that is what we are, a conscious, feeling, sentient body.
No body => no being.
So, yes, "if I had not the body, what great calamity could come to me?" - or joy or anything, come to that!
Let life flow through you moment by moment, breath by breath, heart beat by heart beat.
