Proliferation (papañca)
Unskillful qualities / Proliferation 
Part of key topic Unskillful Qualities
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Alternative translations: Objectification
Glosses: Thinking (unskillful)
Subtags: Craving, Views, Conceit
See also: Directed thought and evaluation
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Proliferation (papañca) refers both to unskillful, out-of-control thinking and to the more subtle objectification that positions a subjective self in a world of objective things.




The Path of Practice, Session 2 – Jun. 16, 2019

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11. Comment: I’m improving my skill at seeing the greed or aversion when there are pleasant or unpleasant feelings, but I often don’t see the neutral feeling state so clearly. [Mindfulness of feeling] [Feeling] [Unwholesome Roots] [Neutral feeling] [Delusion] // [Mindfulness of body] [Restlessness and worry] [Fear] [Present moment awareness]

Response by Ajahn Pasanno.

Sutta: SN 35.116: “That whereby one is a conceiver of the world, a perceiver of the world, that is the world.” [Nature of the cosmos] [Proliferation] [Perception]