nonreferential

The type of meditation used is called "nonreferential compassion," and involves the meditator focusing on unlimited compassion and loving kindness toward all living beings.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Peter Baksa 2012

Eight Buddhist adepts and 10 volunteers who had had a crash course in meditation engaged in the form of meditation called nonreferential compassion.

How Thinking Can Change the Brain 2007

Eight Buddhist adepts and 10 volunteers who had had a crash course in meditation engaged in the form of meditation called nonreferential compassion.

How Thinking Can Change the Brain 2007

They would be as incomprehensible to them as the most elusive lines of John Ashbery or the most resolutely nonreferential L = A = N = G = U = A = G = E poems.

Poetry 2010

The show was apparently conceived to prove that the crisp, rectangular volumes Smith deployed in his later works, especially the stainless-steel "Cubi" series, were part of a lifetime interest in nonreferential geometric form—his association with Abstract Expressionism and the allusive biomorphic elements of his early work notwithstanding.

The Artist in All His Dimensions Karen Wilkin 2011

And therein lies some of the fascinating issues surrounding these works, which were created at the time that nonreferential abstraction was gaining prominence.

Abstraction in the Synagogue 2010

And therein lies some of the fascinating issues surrounding these works, which were created at the time that nonreferential abstraction was gaining prominence.

Abstraction in the Synagogue 2010

In other words, Picasso's pastiche of classical styles, following hard on the flowering of collage, revealed the free-floating, nonreferential signifier of collage as no longer autonomous but meaningless instead.

'The Picasso Papers': An Exchange Cooper, Harry A. 1999

It doesn't founder in the sciences, whose working interdisciplinary teams were observed (by 'humanists') and taken as models; it may not so founder in the social sciences (which have, however, fewer common languages than the natural sciences); but it can and must founder whenever the arts are involved, and for good reason: however much art may make reference to a variety of subjects, its importance is fundamentally nonreferential.

Art, Life & Dr. Williams Vendler, Helen 1975

She moved fairly quickly, though, to nonreferential abstraction, using handmade papers she bought and fabrics she accumulated: strips of worn clothing, ribbons and other sewing basket detritus.

NYT > Home Page 2010