Nature of Direct Experience
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cleaning the mind is not done by focusing on objects of perceptions. This is wrong territory according to the budhha https://suttacentral.net/sn47.7/en/sujato
The right things to watch are whatever is left after the ''five kinds of sensual stimulation'', ie ''cattāro satipaṭṭhānā.''
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On the impression; looks close to me. Whether one thinks or not is far less important than the content of thought. That to which one gives frequent attention becomes the inclination, therefore to establish a perception of impermanence ie one has to reflect on impermanence, this is in the Grimananda Sutta; 'how does one develop perception of impermanence? One reflects thus; ..' . Perceptions have to be established by reasoning. Reasoning is like talking to oneself, reasoning one performs actions; be it inference, translation or multiplication; by means of this or that system of expression one communicates internally. Purpose of reasoning is probably the mapping out of what can be thought about as it actually is so that there is no delusion about the cause and effect which results in unforseen consequences and disappontment.
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You might want to study the Structural Defferential. It is a map of the process of abstraction of our nervous system. It was created by Alfred Korzybski, a pioneer in the field of General Semantics.
The basic awareness you're mentioned in your question refers to the silent levels of awareness. This experience of direct awareness of the whole is also called Gestalt.
In Buddha's spiritual path one tries to see and stop the process of "I" making and "mine" making in his mind. That's what I know theoretically.
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