Conceptual proliferation

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Any thoughts, questions? Anybody else want to say Papancha?

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it's fun.

So this is our usual, our usual way of navigating the world.

One scholar points to this process and how it shapes our minds, and this, uh, Papañca is sometimes talked about as distorted perception because there's the perception and then the, the whole process of Papañca begins to skew that perception into something that's about me.

So this scholar, Pa- Pali Hawadana, says, "This process of distorted perception, of placing every bare perception onto a framework of emotions and beliefs that have come out of our past, our history, our conditioning, robs the freshness out of our experience.

But we're not aware of this constant interference of the past.

Because of this unawareness, which is our ignorance or our delusion, we see humanity fragmented as me and others, us and them, and into various other stereotypes, skin color, eth- ethnicity, language, ideology included." So this process that's being discussed here is not only the contributor to our own suffering but contributes to how the world suffers.

This very same process in our minds, this process of distorted perception, of- of the Papañca, of the mind skewing experience.

And that skew, you know, the- the views, the beliefs, the ideas, they don't come out of nowhere.

They come out of our conditioning, as Professor Pali Hawadana says.