Hello and in today's

the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Miskara, and in today's episode,

we're going to talk about mental proliferation. More to come on that in a moment.

First let's settle in together with the sound of the bells. I'm going to talk about mental proliferation and this is an experience we have all experienced within our meditation practice and outside of our meditation practice.

We could think of this as just the spiraling of thoughts or the conditioned relationship

between thoughts where one thought leads to another leads to another leads to another

we're driving down the highway we see someone else in a car it's a car that we always wanted and then we

start thinking man I really wish I had that car why don't I have

yeah it's because I don't make enough money and like just things have not

unfolded for me the way I've wanted them to unfold I'm stuck with this crappy car that I've had for 12 years how much

long are we going to have to wait until I finally get my chance it's because of my

boss I hate that boss never get any opportunities in my company and do you see just like how the mind can

proliferate with these thoughts starting with just one sense experience we see someone driving in a car, it creates an initial thought,

and that thought creates another thought, creates another thought, creates another thought, creates another thought.

And we've all experienced this in our own ways and we've experienced it within ourselves in different ways in different contexts.

Now the main reason I want to share this today is because in the Buddhist tradition

they have a really cool word for this mental proliferation. It's in the Polly language. And the word they have for this. Are you ready?

It's called Papancha.

Papancha.

Papa. PAPA-P-A-N-C-H-A.

All of this mental proliferation, thought comes in, triggers another thought, triggers another thought, triggers another thought, triggers another thought triggers another thought

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