According to Hindu, Buddhist religions, what is the difference between mind, spirit and body?

Question

I am more interested to learn whether the mind is connected with the spirit and the body. I do believe that body is only the garment for the mind and the spirit. What is the difference between mind and spirit. What defines one as "i am"> Is it the mind or the spirit or both, perhaps? What is spirit?

Answer 1

Body: your flesh - which will die and decay
Mind: your conscience which controls your body ( in Buddhism there are 8 senses of mind: taste, smell, touch, see, feel, hear + 2 other spiritual senses)
Spirit or soul: 1 of the 2 senses which carries your memory, your original identity and your past karma out of your body when you died. If you go to heaven, you will know all of these things from past to present; if you have to undergo reincarnation or fall to hell, you forget all of these (but they still exist in you)

Answer 2

Mind relies on the sensory organs and the brain to function clearly or not, in this life. We don't believe in a "spirit" though.

Your karmic debts determine if you attain a body that can function well, in conjunction with mind, and what you're exposed to and how you process and can understand what you do encounter. When you train your mind, according to the Buddha Dharma, when you have the karma to be introduced to it and can understand it, you learn how to subdue (note I'm not saying "get rid of", which is not what Buddhism's about) the reactions to all of the sensory things we perceive, along the Path.

According to Buddhist philosophy and logic, the concept of an inherently existing "self" is illogical, for when you analytically study and meditate to try to find one, you honestly can't. Instead, we are a heap of "stuff" that we label as "I", and, again in the Buddha Dharma, you learn how subdue clinging and attachments or aversions (or some combination of both) to that "self" in order to learn how to be calmer and happier in the face of all we perceive.

Hope this helps some.

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