But if you happen to meet any of those people you find that they're never depressed about their illness. They're not in a state of euphoria induced by being so sick that you can't think clearly. That fear invites further illness. When the body is understood as it is, then perhaps what's called illness, conventionally speaking, is not a big deal. In traditional Buddhist teachings speech is described as being a link between body and mind.
Projection is basically an interpretive function.
To interpret means to feel some basic split, so we want to make a connection. What is in between is our projection. In discovering basic healthiness, the intellect, the interpretive factor, is our ground, what we have to work with. That's a very important point. When you feel sick you're very conscious of a state of being, that you exist as somebody.