Nama-kaya is mental body. Rupa-kaya is physical body. That is the usual distinction. This distinction is flawed. Rupa-kaya is nama-kaya: when I think "my body" I do not really know my body as body - I know my body as a body of thought, as a mind-object, as nama-rupa. Mind knows of body but it does not know body directly. Looked differently, nama-kaya is rupa-kaya if we collapse this unnecessary duality: after all there is no mind independently of body, what there is - is a minding body, a body that minds.
Published on November 14, 2013 17:09