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George S. Ledyard wrote:
Marian Mountain, in her book The Zen Environment, which is one of my favorite books, calls this "your old home town". It's that place in which you feel secure and comfortable, in which everything's just fine. As human beings we have a drive to make everything we do into "our old home town." Zen training is about not letting anything become your "old home town", instead, being a person of no permanent residence so to speak. For most folks, they will reach a point at which they make Aikido into "their old hometown" and progress stops.
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I haven't thought about that book in years. I remember passing it to friends in High School. A great message to hear at that time. I'm going to have to take a look at it again after all these years. Thanks.