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But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

Bodhidharma
Moving, Four Elements, Mind
Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.43, Macmillan
But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the