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How to know if compassion practice is genuine or performative

I practice loving-kindness meditation but I still feel irritated by my coworkers and judgmental about strangers and wonder if I am just pretending to be compassionate.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Formal loving-kindness practice may not penetrate conditioned reactive patterns without specific integration work.

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“Where Are You with Deliberate practice and skill acquisition?”

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