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When spiritual practice groups face structural disagreements

Our meditation group has been sitting together for two years and now some people want to bring in teachers and structure while others feel that would destroy the organic quality that drew us here in the first place. Every time we try to discuss it we end up in the exact kind of ego conflict we're supposedly practicing to transcend.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A practice community is discovering that the desire for deeper spirituality can paradoxically create the very conflicts they seek to transcend.

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