[MD] unpatterned experience

[MarshaV]

I'm thinking that my unpatterned experiences were encounters with nirvikallpa. 

"For example, the pluralistic Nyaya system, as developed by Gautama, defined nirvikalpa as "unassociated with a name"  (avyapadesya) and savikalpa as "well-defined" (vyavasayagtamake).  By its association with language all perceptions becomes "determinate," but this is necessarily preceded by an earlier stage when it is unassociated, a "bare sensation."  "Nirvikalpa perception is the immediate apprehension, the bare awareness,s the direct sense-experience which is undifferentiated and non-relational and is free from assimilation, discrimination, analysis and synthesis." We can sense this bare sensation, but as soon as we try to know it, this "raw unverbalized experience" (William James) becomes associated with thought-conception and hence determinate (savikalpa)." 
       (Loy, David, 'Nonduality: A Study in Comparative Philosophy',p.43)




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