Dan Harris Quote
They had a term, too, for that thing I did where something would bother me and I would immediately project forward to an unpleasant future (e.g., Balding → Unemployment → Flophouse). The Buddhists called this prapañca (pronounced pra-PUN-cha), which roughly translates to proliferation, or the imperialistic tendency of mind. That captured it beautifully, I thought: something happens, I worry, and that concern instantaneously colonizes my future.
Dan Harris
They had a term, too, for that thing I did where something would bother me and I would immediately project forward to an unpleasant future (e.g., Balding → Unemployment → Flophouse). The Buddhists called this prapañca (pronounced pra-PUN-cha), which roughly translates to proliferation, or the imperialistic tendency of mind. That captured it beautifully, I thought: something happens, I worry, and that concern instantaneously colonizes my future.