To the despisers of the body will I speak my word, I wish them neither to learn afresh, nor teach anew, but only to bid farewell to their own bodies - and thus be dumb. "Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children? But the awakened one, the knowing one, saith: "Body am I entirely, and nothing more; and soul is only the name of something in the body."
To the despisers of the body will I speak my word, I wish them neither to learn afresh, nor teach anew, but only to bid farewell to their own bodies - and thus be dumb. "Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children? But the awakened one, the knowing one, saith: "Body am I entirely, and nothing more; and soul is only the name of something in the body."