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2011-10-19 Getting Down to more Direct Experience II 57:42
Donald Rothberg
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We look further at the mechanisms by which we move away from direct experience. unskillfully, driven by reactivity and papanca (conceptual proliferation). We point to practices of tracking thoughts, emotions, reactivity-that help us ground in more direct experience, leading to greater freedom and responsiveness-personally interpersonally, and collectively.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-07-15 Mana Papanca 53:19
Christina Feldman
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The story we tell ourselves about who we are and its release.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-07-08 Papanca Part Three: The Brahma Viharas 52:50
John Peacock
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This talk deals with the last of the areas of our obsessional thinking: views. We also examine the Brahma Viharas as distinct forms of mindfulness that lead to liberation. We look closely, in particular, at metta as the necessary soil out of which grows and blooms the beautiful flower of compassion (karuna).
Gaia House :  The Path of Mindfulness

2011-07-06 Papanca Part Two: The Tyranny of the Self 46:09
John Peacock
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In this talk we examine what the Buddha means by the 'self', which is the second of the three poles around which thinking contracts and fixates. We look closely at the five processes that constitute the self not as a static phenomena, but as an unfolding and dynamic development.
Gaia House :  The Path of Mindfulness

2011-07-04 Papanca Part One: The Unquenchable Thirst 48:36
John Peacock
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In this talk we examine what the Buddha means by the 'self', which is the second of the three poles around which thinking contracts and fixates. We look closely at the five processes that constitute the self not as a static phenomena, but as an unfolding and dynamic development.
Gaia House :  The Path of Mindfulness

2011-01-21 Papanca - Understanding the Proliferating Mind 51:34
Jenny Wilks
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An overview of how to recognize and work with the causes and effects of papanca, based on the Honeyball Sutta.
Gaia House :  An Exploration of Mindfulness: MBCT/MBSR Retreat

2009-11-10 Papanca 38:13
Christina Feldman
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Gaia House :  November Solitary Retreat

2009-09-05 The Thoughts Keep Coming 65:39
Howard Cohn
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Another version of similar talks on self view and papanca highlighting our tendency to believe the imaginary versions of ourselves that play in our mind and obscure our natural happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day

2009-07-22 Papanca 53:21
Christina Feldman
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Papanca is the process of constructing our world through the proliferation of thought. Understanding the mind is the first step in liberating the mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-02-03 Pure Consciousness 35:34
Kittisaro
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The Shurangama Sutra, Matangi’s daughter & Ananda’s enlightement Sky Like Mind Those who delight in mental proliferation (papanca) never know Nibbana The end of birth and death Apartheid of the mind Nisagardatta’s method What Remains - What doesn’t move
Dharmagiri :  Original Brightness Retreat

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