Untangling the Proliferation of Mind Called Papanca

Date: 2022-05-19 Thursday

This session we’ll be exploring papanca, a Pali word for mental proliferation. Whether you know it or not this is a subject you’re likely familiar with, because mental proliferation, the buzzing swarm of thoughts sometimes referred to as “monkey mind,” very often accompanies us in our meditation.

Pardon the mixture of metaphors, but both of these fit. By better understanding papanca we can learn what it means and doesn’t in terms of our mind activity. We also can learn when to apply antidotes and when to apply mindfulness, and in effect how to bring papanca onto the path.

This evening will complement the last session, when we explored purifying the mind.

Click here to listen to or download the talk on the Seattle Insight page.