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When spiritual communities face philosophical divisions

Our meditation group has been meeting for three years and we're at this crossroads where some people want to go deeper into formal Buddhist practice and others want to keep it more secular and open. The conversations about it are getting heated and people are starting to take sides and I'm afraid we're going to lose what we built together.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The very growth and deepening that should strengthen your community is instead threatening to tear it apart along lines of belief and practice.

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