Consider having two minds: a seeing mind and a listening mind. The seeing mind privileges the eyes – it has a visual attitude to the world – it sees things and it knows things – cognizes and recognizes – The Cogito. The listening mind privileges the ears but also the other senses than the visual: touch, smell, taste, the sense of movement. It perceives and conceives but not in/with pictures. More like unformed, unclear, uncertain feelings. What my teacher called 'whispers.' The seeing mind is what we call consciousness, and the listening mind, awareness. Yielding is then the turning aside of the seeing mind so the listening mind can come to the fore.