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When spiritual learning groups become hierarchical

My dharma study group has turned into a place where the same three people dominate every conversation and the rest of us just sit there nodding.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Unexamined power dynamics can recreate the very patterns contemplative practice is meant to dissolve.

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