On Being Corrected in Public

Being corrected in front of others is one of the more reliably uncomfortable experiences in any communal practice, and almost no one enjoys it, regardless of how mature their practice otherwise is.

In conversations with longtime practitioners across several traditions, a consistent theme emerged: the discomfort itself is not something they had learned to eliminate. What they had learned was to separate the discomfort from the content of the correction, so the sting did not prevent them from actually hearing what was said.