You Are Not Your Body
2 min readAug 28, 2020
One reason Buddhism is not more popular, one suspects, is that it makes various claims that strike people as wildly implausible at first glance.
If I am not my body, who am I? Apparently, in Christianity, the important part of any human is the soul, although Christians do tend to fetishize dead bodies, spending thousands of dollars to preserve them as long as possible, even though those efforts will certainly fail eventually.
