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When meditation makes you more angry at the world

I've been meditating for three years and everyone says I should feel more peaceful but I'm angrier than ever at injustice and I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or if this is actually progress.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The dissolution of comfortable illusions about reality can initially intensify rather than diminish emotional responses to suffering.

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