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"FLOW" is a term Shinzen Young uses to describe any change, movement, energy or force within a sensory experience. This is often vibratory, undulatory, wave-like, expansive and/or contractive. And it's usually pleasant.
"BIFLUX" is a term Shinzen Young uses to describe a simultaneous expansive & contractive flow (that one might experience, for example, upon noticing the vanishing within each arising.) Don't worry about
this one, it will just explain a particular laugh during the meditation.
"FEEL" refers to any physical sensation that is emotional in nature - i.e. subjective sensations in the body.
"TOUCH" refers to all other physical sensations - i.e. objective sensations including contact with clothes, skin, breathing, etc.
"IMAGE" refers to the visual part of the thinking process.
"TALK" refers to verbal thinking.
TOUCH, FEEL, IMAGE & TALK may have spatial locations or specific 'centers' where one experiences them that these participants have been practicing tuning into with sensory clarity & equanimity.
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