On Jan 1, 2007, at 9:20 AM, Vaj wrote:
It's interesting, the Tibetan word for "meditative experiences",
nyams, even refers to meditation experiences as "meditative
moods" (meditative mood-making). It's instructive just reading the
definition:
nyams
debased [RY]
experience [RY]
nga'i nyams la bltas na + tshod red - I feel that [RY]
1) experience and feeling; 2) mental 'gyur ba externally symbolized
in body and speech expressions or, tshugs ka; 3) experience of,
familiarity; 4) [in] mind 'ong [IW]
Temporary experiences [RY]
nyams kyi snang ba visions of (ephemeral) (meditative) experience [RB]
must endure [RY]
feeling-sentiment, failures, soul, thought, strength, state,
experiences, deteriorate, faults, experiential sign of the
development of practice, violation, conviction, transgressor,
corruption, corrupted, humiliated, apprehension of ideas, soul,
manner, extent, degree, condition, elegance, charm, dignity,
meditative experience, mystical experience, corrupted, meditation-
mood, meditative moods, moods, diminish, signs-experiences, sign
experience [JV]
ephemeral meditative experience; fleeting experience [RB]
1) [meditative / temporary] experience, meditation-moods. 2)
vision. 3) Abbr. of nyams pa 4) imposing air / presence / dignity,
haughty, arrogant. 5) elegance, charm, handsome, elegant. 6)
thought, mind, spirit. 7) impairment, impairment, sentiment [in
dramatic arts]. thought, experiential sign of the development of
practice, experiences, withered; experience, meditation experience;
violate, damage, deteriorate, weaken [in context of vows and
commitments] [RY]
feeling-sentiment, failures, soul, thought, strength, state,
experiences, deteriorate, faults, experiential sign of the
development of practice, violation, conviction, transgressor,
corruption, corrupted, humiliated, apprehension of ideas, soul,
manner, extent, degree, condition, elegance, charm, dignity,
meditative experience, mystical experience, corrupted, meditation-
mood, meditative moods, moods, diminish, signs-experiences, sign
experience, impairments [JV]
Also:
nyams pa
(Tha mi dad pa,, broken, torn, damaged, hurt spoiled injur[e][d][y],
degenera[cy][tion], deteriorat[e][tion], decline, impaired, fall away
from, depravity, destroy, ruin, damage, violation [of vows],
exhaustion, emaciation, offense, corruption, transgress[ion][or],
violat[or][ed], lost, declined, degenerate[d], lowered, sink,
corrupted, decreased, damaged, impaired, failed, fallen from, gone
down, [fallen into] decay, waned, faded away, withered, exhausted,
thin, weakened, deprived, ruined, weakened [in context of vows and
commitments]- [be] spoiled [IW]
de las nyams pa - falling back from those states [RY]
get weaker [RY]
impairment (of vow/ precept); impaired [RB]
slip, drop, decrease, injured, damaged, decline, defects, degenerate,
deteriorate, subject to destruction, wasted, spoiled, degenerated,
injured, hurt, spoiled, impaired, imperfect, defiled, polluted,
degeneration [JV]
I) verb nyams pa, nyams pa, nyams pa intr. v. to break, be broken,
corrupted, damaged, decay, decline, declined, decreased, degenerated,
deprived, deteriorate, deteriorated, diminished, exhausted, faded
away, failed, fall away from, fallen from, fallen into decay, gone
down, impaired, injured, lost, lowered, ruined, spoiled, thin,
violated, waned, weaken, weakened, withered. II) 1) n. degeneracy,
deterioration, decline, decay, degeneration, depravity, ruin, injury,
damage, exhaustion, emaciation, weakening. 2) violation, offense,
corruption, transgression, impairment. 3) violator, transgressor [RY]
to spoil [RY]
