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When meditation creates escapist tendencies

I have moments of genuine peace during meditation but then judge myself for wanting to stay there instead of engaging with my actual life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Pleasant meditative states can become subtle addictions that compete with full engagement in ordinary experience.

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