My partner and I have been practicing loving-kindness meditation together for two years, but lately when we sit together I feel like we're performing compassion rather than actually feeling it, and I don't know how to tell them that our practice feels hollow without sounding like I'm judging their sincerity.
More people experience this than they realize.
The gap between performed compassion and felt compassion is creating distance in shared spiritual practice.
“Where Are You with Metta — Buddhist loving-kindness?”
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