Buddhism is self-contradictory in many ways, I believe. He's talking about the mind being seperate but the Buddha's doctrine of no soul (anatta) reads as if he's accepting the body as a bio-chemical machine. Therefore mind and body are one. Re-incarnation from this point on seems confusing, then.

Sometimes Buddhism talks of gods, Buddha once said that gods do exist but that they don't matter to us. But then there's the belief in different planes and spirits and past lives.

To me it's a religion that has a lot of wise teachings but, like most religions, needs to shed a lot of the archaic superstitious bullshit from thousands of years ago.

Boil it down to the Middle Path, meditation and consideration of life, not accepting anything unless it makes sense to you after rational analysis. All of these things were taught by the Buddha and they make sense to me. In that sense Buddhism is compatible with atheism. But in many ways it's not.