[MD] static patterns of value

[David Morey]

"In order to understand what is being said here, one should try and imagine 
all things, objects of experience and oneself, the one who is experiencing, 
as just a flow of perceptions. We do not know that there is something "out 
there". We have only experiences of colours, shapes, tactile data, and so 
on. We also don't know that we ourselves are anything than a further series 
of experiences. Taken together, there is only an EVER-CHANGING FLOW of 
perceptions (vijnaptimatra)... Due to our beginningless ignorance we 
construct these perceptions into enduring subjects and objects confronting 
each other. This is irrational, things are not really like that, and it 
leads to suffering and frustration. The constructed objects are the 
conceptualised aspect. The flow of perceptions which forms the basis for our 
mistaken constructions is the dependent aspect." (Paul Williams, "Mahayana 
Buddhism", Routledge, 1989, p.83/84).

DM: What is a flow of perceptions? What I mean by pre-conceptual patterns I 
guess. What are colours, shapes, tactile data? Pre-conceptual patterns of 
experience I think, so where to put these pre-conceptual experienced 
patterns, happy to call these DQ, but DQ is not so undifferentiated now it 
seems, DQ is a flux full of pattern and valued response to these patterns, 
looks like there is a lot we can say about DQ and its pre-conceptual forms. 
I am happy to see DQ and SQ this way if it is the best way forward, patterns 
can be split split between SQ and DQ, conceptual analysis and pre-conceptual 
reality. No harm it that I can see.