When a lover of music listens to a concert, she is likely to close her eyes. If you call her name or touch her on the shoulder, she may not even notice. Attention has been withdrawn from her other senses and is concentrated in her hearing. The same thing happens as meditation deepens, except that attention is withdrawn from all the senses and turned inward. Western mystics call this “recollection,” a literal translation of what the Buddha calls “right attention.”
