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Originally Posted by Jack  I as consciousness maybe everywhere,but what about attracting to my body? |
Well, of course, there is what we perceive as movement in the physical world. The physical world is mechanical, as well as the body, since it is part of that world.
I was trying to expand upon the view that we are over here, and the object of our desires is over there. When we rest in the well being of knowing we already have everything we ever desired (because we are everything), then that well being transfers down to our physical avatar.
As an analogy, it's like our ego is a finger on a hand, and our desires are perceived as the other fingers. We try to get those "other" fingers to come to us, by attraction. We don't realize we are the whole hand, and that both fingers are extensions of that hand. If we want the hypothetical fingers to touch, why don't the fingers meet in the middle? They are both simply parts of the whole, neither "owns" the other. So what we think of as attraction is really just the
Self changing configuration.
You would be just as valid in saying "you" were "attracted" to the object, rather than the object being attracted to you. See my point?
The idea of attraction raises perplexing questions when seen from the perspective of the hand (continuing the analogy). Like why do the fingers need to touch? From the hand perspective they are already connected. Also, why should one finger try to dominate or control the other fingers, they would be more affective doing whatever it is they wish to do, if they worked together. Besides, they are one organism anyway, the fingers only SEEM to act independently of the other fingers. From the hand perspective, it is an absurd thought that each finger is working only under its own influence.