Firstly, I will like to state that i am not a good practitioner.
... have too much attachments.
However, will like to share some stuffs for discussions.
To my current understanding, there is no such things as
thoughts. Thoughts are conceptual imagination cognated as chunks
and objectified.
So non-conceptuality is not 'no thoughts'. Rather it is
no-imagination. At each given moment, when we are in ignorance,
experience is modified by a conceptual layer of imagination. It is like
we never touch reality in its raw state.
In ignorance, we view experiences as
1. being experienced by a someone (self)... A someone is
limited to a body... however Presence is not of such nature !
2. experience dualistically. This include taking that there are
other selfs ... view others
as objectified persons. .....( However, there are no selfs... only
aggregates)
To my understanding, non-conceptually involves penetrating the
conceptual-imagination layer. ... coming to a transparent
experience.
Ignorance is taking the unreal for being totally real....
creating more suffering than is what is actually happening...
To me, even after a first glimpse is not enough (to establish a
permanent shift).... attachments .. karmic habits continue to roll
on... making establishing transparent unfabricated experiencing
non-subjectable to ones' intentions....
So
non-conceptuality is not 'no thoughts'. Rather it is
no-imagination. At each given moment, when we are in ignorance,
experience is modified by a conceptual layer of imagination. It is
like we never touch reality in its raw
state.
In Buddhist logic, the first moment of our
sense perception is a pure sensation minus of all memory and is non
constructive. This first moment from our senses is of a vivid and
bright reality and immediately followed by our Understanding trying
to explain it in general images terms and concepts from memory. In
between the pure sensation and the understanding, there is another
moment of intuitive intelligible, non sensuous intuition, which the
Buddhas and Bodhisattvas alone possess allowing them to know
everything directly. It is an intuition that comes after the first
pure sensation and before the thought construction
possess.
Is this the ‘non-conceptuality’ stage you
are referring to?