Dear Nina and friends,

thanks again, Nina. It is amazing how the Buddha understand things.
Does "body in the body" only applies to breath in the physical body,
ruupakaaya? Thanks.

metta,
Yong Peng

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, nina van gorkom wrote:

We say that breath is a body. Further, the twentyfive classes of
rupa, namely, the sense-base of visible object (ruupaayatana)....
nutriment, are called the physical body, ruupakaaya (N:different from
the mental body). Of these, breathing is ³a certain body² because it
is included in tangible object base (pho.t.tabbaayatana). ³That is
why²: because he contemplates the body of wind (vaayokaaya, motion or
pressure) among the four bodies (N: the four Great Elements), or he
sees breath as one body among the twentyfive rupas which are the
physical body, ruupakaaya. Therefore he contemplates and sees the
body in the body, is the meaning.