Sunday Super Sunday

June 4, 2008

This post is from a long time ago, saved in my “to be posted section” which I never got around to.

This Sunday was quite different from any other Sunday. It started off with me picking up Steve and then going over to Rod’s house so we could go over to Pennsylvania for Steve’s Ikkyu exam. I was Steve’s uke for his exam. It took us about 2 hours to get there. We were headed to a church in Scotrun, which is Barb’s church in PA. They allow them to practice there one Sunday every month. It is supposed to be a black belt, which means that I wasn’t supposed to be there, but since I was Steve’s uke, I got to attend the class. It was nothing special since no other black belts showed up. It was Barb and Rod who were the examiners and Steve and me who were a part of the exam. Steve had practiced his techniques on me the previous Sundays and looked pretty good. Well at least from my point of perspective they looked good. Most of the techniques I haven’t even learnt yet, in any case the exam went pretty well and after the exam was an oral part for Steve, for which I left the room. I learnt that there was a labyrinth outside the church. There was a path near the parking lot that lead to the labyrinth. I kept following the path which finally led to a tree that had the trail sign on it, but I didn’t see the next trail sign anywhere. As I started on the path, I saw the labyrinth on the right but somehow the path didn’t lead to it. At the dead end, I remembered that Steve and Rod were laughing when they mentioned the labyrinth. So, I gave it a thought and wondered if there was a path ahead so I wandered a little further but didn’t see any signs. Then I climbed uphill from the tree and still wasn’t able to find any signs of the path. I wondered if it was just a path made by the church to make the seeker wonder what the real purpose of the path was.
At first I thought that the message was supposed to say that you don’t necessarily get what you want. So I started to walk back towards the church. Then I saw that I had missed a small passageway that led to the labyrinth. So I went ahead and walked through the labyrinth. While walking through I had realized that not everything is meant to be straight-forward. You need to pay attention to the little things. After walking through the labyrinth, I went back to the church to see if they had finished the oral part of the exam. They were done but Steve asked me if I trusted him and if he could do this one technique on me. I was shocked that he asked, but I was like ok. Then he told me that it was a Kapo technique and that he would knock me out (not literally, but as in I would pass out) and then bring me back with this one technique which I have learnt. Apparently there were questions in the way he had performed it. So he knocked me out and then about 30 seconds later I was regaining consciousness. Just to make sure I was alright, they were asking what day it was, and where I was. I answered Sunday, and with a very questionable tone said…”SCROTUN” and they knew I was back. Then they told me that It was scotrun and not scrotun which is what it looks like when you drive by the road sign really fast.

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