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How meditation groups can practice non-attachment to changing membership

Our meditation group has been sitting together for three years and people keep coming and going and I know that's the nature of things but I find myself getting attached to who's here and missing people who've left and I don't know if others feel this too or how we talk about it.

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A spiritual community struggles with the practical application of impermanence teachings to their own evolving relationships.

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