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2025-09-10 Awakening at the Edge of Collapse: Dharma as Refuge and Response 41:34
Thanissara
We are living through a profound pivot point. The old myths of our civilization–endless growth, rugged individualism, and “us first” hierarchies are crumbling. In their place, fear, division, and the architecture of fascism are rapidly rising. As the Jungian analyst Edward Edinger warned, when a central myth breaks down, meaning drains away, and primitive forces rush in. The Buddha also lived in a world burning with greed, hatred, and delusion. He challenged the systems of his time, endured attempts on his life, negotiated peace between warring factions, and even stood before armies bent on destruction. In the Sakka-pañha Sutta, when asked why beings who wish for peace end up in rivalry and violence, he pointed to the root: the mind entangled in papañca, the web of proliferating stories that harden separation. How then do we understand this immense historic moment? We can take courage from the Buddha. He didn’t always succeed. Even with his wisdom and compassion, he could not prevent the destruction of his own people. Yet he still stood before armies, still spoke truth, and still acted with courage. Even when outcomes are uncertain, we too are called, at this time, to step forward with clarity, compassion, and steadfastness. Together we will explore how to bring the medicine of the Dharma into this moment of profound challenge, not as escape, but as a path of right action, refuge, and renewal.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2024-09-29 Instructions & Guided Meditation - Releasing into the Web of Life 1:13:09
Gavin Milne
The double helix of disentangling, and opening to - noticing qualities of depth, as we release the bind. Normalising Papanca.
Gaia House Awakening in the World (3) : Awakening into the Web of Life (online)

2024-01-13 08 instructions: proliferation 8:01
Jill Shepherd
Short instructions for working with mental proliferation or papanca, seeing the chain reactions that cause it and coming back to the immediacy of sense-based experience to re-ground awareness
Australian Insight Meditation Network Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2023-07-14 Papañca - on conceptual proliferation 56:28
Akincano Marc Weber
Forms of Not-knowing (avijjā). Vipallāsa: the distortions of perception, the mind, and of views
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation

2022-12-09 Papañca (proliferation) 1:33:09
Bhante Sujato
Guided meditation of awareness of the messy mind, being aware of consciousness brings fearlessness. Dhamma talk on papañca with reference to The Honey Cake sutta MN18 and Concept and Reality by Ven. Ñāṇananda's analysis of MN18 16.1. How venerable Kaccāna presents a sequence where the self slowly emerges, creating the person who then is beset by papañca; nouns turn to verbs.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-04-19 Papanca 43:30
Kim Allen
Uncontrived

2021-10-29 Mettā meditation, Dhamma talk on creativity versus papañca, Q&A. 1:23:07
Bhante Sujato
Mettā meditation led by Bhante Sujato. The difference between therapy and the spiritual path. Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on creativity versus papañca. Question on the experience of movement and stillness in meditation.
Lokanta Vihara

2021-07-19 "Questions & Answers about Papanca 2" 69:50
Joseph Goldstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Insight Meditation Retreat" with Kamala Masters, Joseph Goldstein, bruni dávila, Shelly Graf and Walt Opie

2021-07-18 "Papanca 2: Craving, Conceit, and Wrong View" 1:11:54
Joseph Goldstein
Proliferating tendencies that condition our lived experience, and how to free ourselves from them
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Insight Meditation Retreat" with Kamala Masters, Joseph Goldstein, bruni dávila, Shelly Graf and Walt Opie

2021-07-17 "Questions & Answers about Papanca 1" 1:22:09
Joseph Goldstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Insight Meditation Retreat" with Kamala Masters, Joseph Goldstein, bruni dávila, Shelly Graf and Walt Opie

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