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The danger of sitting passively in meditation whilst in the presence of someone else who is not, and even in a number of cases of someone who is, is the danger of receiving and absorbing from that person his emotional and mental emanations of a negative character. This is one important reason why solitary practice is usually enjoined.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 471