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When meditation makes you angrier instead of calmer

I've been meditating for three years and everyone says I should feel more peaceful but I'm angrier than ever, like all this sitting is just making me see how screwed up everything really is.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The practice of stillness is revealing suppressed truths rather than providing escape from them.

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