[Buddha-l] Withdrawal of the senses

[Malcolm Dean]

More on the idea of withdrawing the senses. - M.

http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-greece/plotinus_soul-source.asp

"In sum, we must withdraw from all the extern, pointed wholly inwards;
no leaning to the outer; the total of things ignored, first in their
relation to us and later in the very idea; the self put out of mind in
the contemplation of the Supreme; all the commerce so closely There
that, if report were possible, one might become to others reporter of
that communion."

Plotinus : The Soul's movement will be about its source
from the Enneads 6.9.7-11, Translated by Stephen Mackenna and B. S. Page