“Meditation practice leads to meditational experience. A meditational experience is called a nyam. Nyams can be pleasant, unpleasant, or simply peculiar. They can be connected to any of the senses – experiences of sensation, sight, hearing, taste, smell, or ideation. Nyams occur through the settling of the psycho-physical elements during meditation. Nyams are ignored in sutric and tantric practice, but recognised as a sign of progress. (In Dzogchen, nyams are not always ignored. There are particular nyams that are engaged as method.) Nyams arise through meditation, so a nyam indicates meditation is being practised.”
Battlecry of Freedom by Ngakma Nor’dzin, Aro Books worldwide, 2019, ISBN 978-1-898185-46-8 Part II - the slogans, p. 150
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