Our physical body reflects our learning.

The mind is an instrument that records sensual activities and assists the living being in concocting various ways to attempt to enjoy in the physical world. Because of these features, the mind reflects the desires of the living being together with the various sensual inputs. For example, if we see a movie, that movie is now recorded into the mind, and all of those images in the movie are now images the mind holds. Because we desired to see the movie in the first place, the recording reflects not just the images, but also the self’s desire to see the movie.

Not only does the mind reflect every image. The mind retains the initial concoction set up by the living being: I will enjoy watching this movie. In this way, our minds have a combined database of sensual images and the various concoctions we have developed—some of which have been achieved and some of which have not. Those concoctions that have been achieved may provide learning experiences for us, providing some wisdom. However, those concoctions that have not yet been achieved are quite dangerous. They will shape our future bodies.

The instrument of the mind is incredibly precise in its ability to record, yet we have conscious access to only part of it: the conscious mind. The unconscious part of the mind contains the recordings and concoctions of everything we have ever experienced.

Because the mind contains both concoctions and images, the combined status of our mind is the sum of our activities and desires. Our gross physical body reflects this status of our mind.

Therefore, the contents of our mind will be reflected by the type of body we have on: our concocted desires for sensual enjoyment combined with our recorded sensual activities determine the kind of physical senses we develop. Thus, the types of physical characteristics we have now were determined by the characteristics of our mental status in the past. These characteristics include our history of relationships, activities, and desires.

The mind can be considered the primary vehicle we travel within throughout our journeys through the physical world: It carries us through various experiences and lifetimes, all the while accumulating these experiences and concoctions, constantly reflecting them through gross physical forms.