Papanca
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See Peter's Third Law..do you think mods the bovine ordure limitation should kick in leading to locking..or ironically it should head to the Lounge ?
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Buddhists on the internet has a direct causal relationship with the proliferation of papanca, the first step is to admit that you are a papanca-a-holic, if we weren't doing it on the internet we'd be sitting on a cushion watching our minds do it anyway.PeterB wrote:Perhaps a subforum of the Lounge could be created called " Managed And Contained Papanca " in recognition of what appears to be a genuine need. Or perhaps it already exists.
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― Ajahn Chah
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Re: Papanca
Admit I'm a prapanca-holic?Goofaholix wrote:Buddhists on the internet has a direct causal relationship with the proliferation of papanca, the first step is to admit that you are a papanca-a-holic, if we weren't doing it on the internet we'd be sitting on a cushion watching our minds do it anyway.PeterB wrote:Perhaps a subforum of the Lounge could be created called " Managed And Contained Papanca " in recognition of what appears to be a genuine need. Or perhaps it already exists.
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I am the Mahaprapancaraja!!
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Re: Papanca
Makes you wonder how we Papancaholics managed before the Internet.
Actually I remember...One would attend a teaching at The Buddhist Society and after the talk there would be a Q and A session..the speaker would start rounding off, and someone , almost always a guy not a gal, would ignore the cues and say something like, " I have always felt that Anatta was actually an Atlantean concept "...at which point everyone would groan softly as they realised that tea and biccies had just been postponed for another half hour.
Actually I remember...One would attend a teaching at The Buddhist Society and after the talk there would be a Q and A session..the speaker would start rounding off, and someone , almost always a guy not a gal, would ignore the cues and say something like, " I have always felt that Anatta was actually an Atlantean concept "...at which point everyone would groan softly as they realised that tea and biccies had just been postponed for another half hour.
Re: Papanca
Having read the whole thread (so far), and having been less-than-kind in another thread not so long ago, I humbly suggest that we need to remember that lotuses do grow in ... muck ... and allow the papanca to accumulate for the sake of the occasional lotus arising from it.PeterB wrote:Perhaps a subforum of the Lounge could be created called " Managed And Contained Papanca " in recognition of what appears to be a genuine need. Or perhaps it already exists.
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I guess the question becomes is papanca fertile mud, or is it clogging weeds ?
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...Or is it like the previous sentence and this one, merely just conceptual proliferation ?PeterB wrote:I guess the question becomes is papanca fertile mud, or is it clogging weeds ?
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It's strange that I was unaccountably drawn to read this thread tonight, when I haven't logged on here for ages. Odd.tiltbillings wrote:To let out a wee secret we have the "Charnel Grounds" (borrowed from Termite's Websangha) for posts that have been removed from view.
It's nice to know that something has been inspired by Websangha, but it's a bit disconcerting to find that it's a boneyard. Night of the Living Dead, maybe?
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Hi Termite and welcome back to DW!
The charnel ground is actually very useful for our purposes.
think most people who have moderated on discussion boards will agree that its important to keep an archive of off-topic and generally unsuitable posts as it improves the quality of moderation.
kind regards
Ben
The charnel ground is actually very useful for our purposes.
think most people who have moderated on discussion boards will agree that its important to keep an archive of off-topic and generally unsuitable posts as it improves the quality of moderation.
kind regards
Ben
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..