Is My Body More Me Than My Body?

The mind is a very mysterious thing. Why should i expect to have any great insight into it by observing it than i do? If i stand outside in the dark of a night and observe the sky over and again, all i am dimly aware of are pin pricks of light in the sky,. And that observation tells me, with my unaided eyes, almost nothing about what those things really are much less what caused them. So too with the mind. I observe my thoughts, and can recognize i am not identical to my thoughts. I just have one now and again, i am not any individual idea, nor my set of ideas, but i have them, and they do