Vikalpa
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Vikalpa is a Sanskrit philosophical term used in Hinduism and Buddhism, describing the mental process which creates conceptualizations ("concepts, judgements, views, and opinions") which are coloured by emotions and desores and therefor erroneous.[1] In Yogacara, it is the split between a perceiver and objects perceived, constructing an erronepus reification of both.[1]
Nirvikalpa is the absence, or 'seeing-through', of these erroneous mental constructions, as aimed for in yoga and meditation, in which both the calming of the mind (samatha, samadhi) and insight into the workings of the mind (prajna, [bodhi]], vipassana) are aims.
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[edit]- Vikalpa, Wisdom Library