Cf. #papanca in #Buddhism #philosophy https://encyclopediaofbuddhism.org/wiki/Prapa%C3%B1ca

Experiential tendency:
- to spread out from and elaborate upon any sense object arising in experience, smothering it with wave after wave of mental elaboration
- most illusory, repetitive and even obsessive
- blocking any mental calm or clarity 🪷🙏🏽

#Papañca is a Pali Buddhist term:
“People delight in proliferation,
the Tathagata in #nonproliferation.”
#Dhammapada 254
https://www.lionsroar.com/what-is-papanca/

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@njoseph_1
In dhamma traditions, the default state of distraction is called #papanca. As something we continually do to ourselves - even before the media, Madison Avenue, Google ads etc pitch in with malicious intent - handling papanca is basic survival sklills? For me, Christina Feldman engages this in a useful way . . not 'religion', but basic literacy for any person with a mind?
https://vdocuments.site/christina-feldman-papanca-proliferation-of-thoughts.html