“This isn’t really about thinking. We’re taught that that’s education, thinking. And so our education is basically thinking.
And I think it’s important to think. Feel it’s important to think.
But there’s something other than thinking – perceiving, pratyahara.
For me, pratyahara isn’t withdrawing from the senses, it’s coming to the place from which all senses are born.”
COMMUNITY QUESTION
Bonnie, what do you mean by, “For me, pratyahara isn’t withdrawing from the senses, it’s coming to the place from which all senses are born”?
BONNIE
There are many paths to our beginning. I suspect this is ultimately unique for each one of us.
One guidepost along the way might be returning to the spacious consciousness between the ongoing stillness of presence within our egg and the spontaneous, penetrating focus within our active sperm.