195
-196: Complications = papañca. Alternative translations of this term
would be proliferation, elaboration, exaggeration. The term is used both in
philosophical contexts -- in connection with troubles and disputes -- and in
artistic contexts, in connection with excessive detail and elaboration. M.18
states: "Dependent on eye & forms, eye-consciousness arises. The
meeting of the three is contact. With contact as a requisite condition, there
is feeling. What one feels, one apperceives (labels in the mind). What one
apperceives, one thinks about. What one thinks about, one complicates. Based on
what a person complicates, the perceptions & categories of complication
assail him/her with regard to past, present, & future forms cognizable via
the eye. [Similarly with the other senses.]... Now, with regard to the cause
whereby the perceptions & categories of complication assail a person: if
there is nothing there to relish, welcome, or remain fastened to, then that is
the end of the obsessions of passion, the obsessions of resistance, the
obsessions of views, the obsessions of uncertainty, the obsessions of conceit,
the obsessions of passion for becoming, & the obsessions of ignorance. That
is the end of taking up rods & bladed weapons, of arguments, quarrels,
disputes, accusations, divisive tale-bearing, & false speech. That is where
these evil, unskillful things cease without remainder."
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