Нимитта, как очищенный феномен?

[КИ]

This pure mental object is called a NIMITTA. .Nimitta. means .a sign., here a mental sign. This is a real object in the landscape of the mind (CITTA) and when it appears for the first time it is extremely strange. One simply has not experienced anything like it before.

You can recognize a nimitta by the following 6 features: 1. It appears only after the 5th stage of the meditation, after the meditator has been with the beautiful breath for a long time; 2. It appears when the breath disappears; 3. It only comes with the external five senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch are completely absent; 4. It manifests only in the silent mind, when descriptive thoughts (inner speech) are totally absent; 5. It is strange but powerfully attractive; 6. It is a beautifully simple object.   
http://www.mettanet.org/english/meditation-b2.htm

[Пламен]

А я думал, что чистое сознание - анимитта.

[КИ]

С анимитта вообще очень сложно все и малопонятно. Не похоже, что это просто антоним нимитта. Наиболее удачная из встретившихся трактовок - синоним асамскрита, то есть нирвана (с отсутствующими [инструментальными?] причинами).