In traditional yoga texts, it was somewhat common to conceive of attention as something like the consequence of our sense organs ‘reaching out’ into the world to grasp things (sights, sounds, etc.). This conception would characterize yoga/meditation as being a quest to (and/or result of) control one’s senses, the effect of which is something like not being taken in/up by the habitual self-movement of attending. This practice of controlling or withdrawing one’s senses is not to suppress them…