photo: jetheriot
A tripod is built to be as unobtrusive as possible. It supports the camera sitting on top of it while staying out of the camera's way.
Similarly, a human body stays out of the way of the human head sitting on top of it. The body has evolved so as not to obstruct the sense organs populating its surface. There's nothing between the eyes, the ears, the nose, the mouth and the environment they explore. The body structurally supports the sense organs while staying out of their way. Another way to think of it: the body disappears.
The structural, supportive aspect of the body is downgraded in importance relative to the thinking, feeling, sensing aspect of the body, resulting in an illusion of separateness, the separateness of mind and body. What is mind, in other words, but the thinking, feeling, sensing aspect of the body? It's a pervasive and stubborn illusion.
When we learn to undisappear the structural, supportive aspect of the body, when we train our awareness in its direction and integrate it with the thinking, feeling, sensing aspect of the body through so-called mind-body practices such as yoga and meditation, this illusion of separateness lessens. The distinction between mind and body vanishes, and we begin to realize that the separateness was never really there in the first place.
We're all body, even our minds.