What mind?

For years I’ve followed the nondual convention to write bodymind.

There is (the appearance of) a human organism, a body-and-mind.

But it seems that body is all there is to name, if we must name things.

There is flesh and blood, a biological body.

Is there a separate mind at all except in our concepts?

(Of course, “body” is also a concept but that’s not the point here).

We don’t say there is a body-smelling, or a body-tasting. We don’t speak of our senses separately when we refer to the body.

So why mention mind separately?

When we say mind we seem to be referring to perception of thoughts.

The mind seems to be a sense organ. Thoughts are sense perceptions, just like sounds, smells, or tastes.

We don’t create thoughts, as we don’t create sounds. They appear and are perceived (or not).

Calling it the bodymind makes it sound like there is a separate personal mind inside the physical body.

The old Cartesian mind-body split, alive and kicking.

So, enough of trying to heal a split that was never there.

There may be something we can call a body, but where is the mind?