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Re: Dojo Etiquette
This sounds like an opportunity to take Aikido principles and apply them in other areas of your life. If you can center yourself and focus in on your training and learning from the teacher, it should not really matter where you sit, or how people (including yourself) want to place you in some hierarchy. I have had to learn those same lessons myself over the years (and still find myself having my ego stand in the way of my learning). I try very hard to tune-out the extraneous and focus in on why I am there and what can I learn from that training. Rank, protocol, and hierarchies seem to become so insignificant when I realize how hard a journey it really is to further develop my budo.
Best of luck!
Marc Abrams
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