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Why Good Teachers Go Bad, with Shinzen Young

Deconstructing Yourself

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The Negative Effects of Meditation Practice

The number of human beings that have been positively affected by their meditation practice, it is much larger. So then why do we have this thing that is so confusing to people and causes people with very good reason to be skeptical of the whole endeavor? I think there's a general reason why these things happen. The general force is that certain types of personality tend to rise to the top. Psychopathic personalities. By psychopath, I don't mean serial killers. I mean a certain kind of very charming, but manipulative person. You might think that I would have said we can prevent it completely, but there may be a built in thing that we may or may not be able to overcome.

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