What is the practical use of this body?

[SarathW]

What is the practical use of this body?
There is a practical use of a cup as we can drink water quenching our thirst.
What is the practical use of the body?

[cappuccino]

the form in heaven is spirit, hence the term spirituality

the form on earth is mortal, however…

we're immortal because the form isn't self

[Disciple]

What is the practical use of this body?
There is a practical use of a cup as we can drink water quenching our thirst.
What is the practical use of the body?

Spiritual development.

[Sam Vara]

1) It enables you to practice.

2) It rots nicely and provides nutrients for other animals and plants.

[denise]

absorbing knowledge, and transportation of sorts...

[Digity]

[When this was said, the Blessed One responded:] "I tell you, friend, that it is not possible by traveling to know or see or reach a far end of the cosmos where one does not take birth, age, die, pass away, or reappear. But at the same time, I tell you that there is no making an end of suffering & stress without reaching the end of the cosmos. Yet it is just within this fathom-long body, with its perception & intellect, that I declare that there is the cosmos, the origination of the cosmos, the cessation of the cosmos, and the path of practice leading to the cessation of the cosmos."

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/ati/tip ... .than.html

[thepea]

This body is the mirror in which consciousness becomes aware of consciousness.

[SarathW]

This body is the mirror in which consciousness becomes aware of consciousness.

What about Arupavacara beings?

[cappuccino]

This body is the mirror in which consciousness becomes aware of consciousness.

Advaita perhaps, not Buddhism.

[chownah]

What is the practical use of this body?
There is a practical use of a cup as we can drink water quenching our thirst.
What is the practical use of the body?

The practical use of the body is to drink water from the cup.
chownah

[alfa]

What is the practical use of this body?
There is a practical use of a cup as we can drink water quenching our thirst.
What is the practical use of the body?

No use. It's a curse. All the more reason to practice dhamma and get the f**k out of this body.

[dylanj]

Making merit, hearing the Dhamma, practicing the Dhamma.

Beings in the formless realms can't do these things. They are absorbed into their specific ārūpajhāna until their lifespan ends.

[dylanj]

the form in heaven is spirit, hence the term spirituality

the form on earth is mortal, however…

we're immortal because the form isn't self

this is refuted by DN 1

[thepea]

This body is the mirror in which consciousness becomes aware of consciousness.

Advaita perhaps, not Buddhism.

Same sh!# different pile.

[auto]

What is the practical use of this body?
There is a practical use of a cup as we can drink water quenching our thirst.
What is the practical use of the body?

Thirst is what you name it according to what parts of a body is affected by the entity.