Salamandra is the most beautiful lizard I saw in my life. I was about 7 years old and I was with my grandfather in the woods after the sponges. Then I saw this splendid creature for the first time. «Put your hand down, to pass Salamandra on her, to be skilled,» his grandfather says to me. I hesitated. Not for fear. No word! But I was in the period when I was not only a fanatic supporter, but also a serious football player. Every day I played with my friends. «Why should I put my hand?! I disasse and done! Otherwise I played football after this encounter with a magic creature. I thought at least a blacksmith … please, so it seemed to me … but recently I discovered that» my foot game «is not at all helped by any magic. I really tend that this story with Salamandra is resolved: a story of falling asleep!
I don’t use my feet. I noticed it in Ninjutsu. It is like when my mind is not aware that it has them. Or if I have them, I’m not mine. Maybe I brought them to the notebook somewhere. I mean, forever … I see that the attack arrives, possibly move the hands and/and the body, but the legs are nailed. It does not move with the order of the prosecutor! In short, I am the perfect victim because I don’t move.
I went back with great pleasure in Baciant for a seminar where I worked with Kodachi (short sword) and chain. The city of Bacovia is extremely interesting in winter. The cold enters your bones and as if its texts get new meanings. I liked the review with colleagues practicing from Shiroi Okami Dojo. In fact, it is impossible not to feel good in a group of fans.
I will start with the end and a thought that appeared in my mind immediately after the completion of the seminary. It is nice to be able to create space within you to receive new information/knowledge or encouragement. It’s really a special gift. Because if you can receive it it means that something comes from your outside and if it comes from the outside it means that you are not alone. And this is enormously! Even if you only depend on how to apply the information and the speed with which you progress (therefore in a certain sense you are alone), it is essential to be receptive and have space to accumulate knowledge. And to know that someone is willing to share with you from his experience, who cares about you and the way you progress. When you do all these things, a vibration is created within you, one that you feel in a thousand ways. But let me tell you what it is …
Towards the end of the seminar, Sensei asked me if I wanted to help a colleague to take the degree exam … well, how don’t I want?! It is true that I didn’t know anything about these exams. I was extremely curious. Obviously, in the second second I thought that if I broke my exam I will never forgive it. We had never worked together, I knew from the workouts that I was doing what I was doing and I was fleeing, they had passed me all. But I couldn’t return. Also, I wanted to see how it goes and obviously I wanted to help. So let’s start, attack, capture me, she makes the technique, I walk. Still and again. At a certain point, I hear Sensei while he tells me: «Now do the technique!» I, surprised by the measure, began and I make the technique. I didn’t ask why, I thought this was the exam, the one who gives him attack and do the technique. And I did it, once, twice …
Then he followed the exam itself. There were several who gave the degree examination, of all ages (from 5 years upwards). So I had the opportunity to see what such an event means. And I was happy for all those who have been rewarded for their work and their passion. In the end, my colleague enters the exam … with me everything. An attack a few times, make the technique. All well and beautiful, until Sensei says: «Now do what you want, what technique you want, you tell him how you want to attack and do what you want.» I seemed slightly confused to Sensei, you probably could read on my forehead: «Error 404 – Page not found«. For me»Do what you want«It is a kind of» șu, zzztt of ideas «, as I have heard these words, how to extinguish the light, it would be quiet and they have my ideas like partridges in all directions. I was THINKING THAT WHO KNOWS WHAT I Choose and What I Get on and Break Myys Colleague’s Exam … This was my biggest fear.
I sat on the bench to capture the times when my colleagues received their diplomas. The shock came in the end when I heard my name. I was preparing to say that I had already received the participation diploma in the seminary (of which I was very proud). When the Sensei gave me Diploma de 9 kyo (I understand that now I can have a red belt) errors have arrived after errors and therefore the message Down system. I didn’t expect it. No second, I thought I could take the degree exam. I didn’t consider myself good enough for this. I looked at my diploma for a long time when I tried many feelings. On the one hand a lot of sincere joyon the other hand Themes that perhaps I cannot progress moreMaybe I won’t be able to overcome my blocks … I have no idea … of course, I will try! This day I vulnerable to me a lot. I was not ready, but the simple fact that Sensei decided to give me this degree has a high dose of responsibility. I don’t feel I deserve, but I will try to progress, that is, I can deserve these 9 kyu and the following, of course. Thank you so much for your trust, Sensei!
If you are thinking well, there is a background resemblance between a practicing ninjutsu, a watchmaker and a surgeon … all three include the value of a millimeter, a small wheel, a nerve in the body. And, last but not less important, everyone work over time.
The seminar was with many challenges for me. I confess that this was the first training in which I didn’t wear mental wars with me. I had no revenge dialogues with their own person (as happens to me). I didn’t examine old dialogues that I would like to otherwise. I have not «faced» my energy in harmful emotions, which usually complicates my life. Among us, usually, to training, my whole life rotates. Not today. I don’t know exactly what I did, but I managed to stop the «tap» of my thoughts.
If I had to take me later George CošbucI would no longer have dug my emotions and thoughts. Most likely, I would understand that I like what I have (a lot of enthusiasm and energy), it would be more than enough to be happy. Whatever means.
Answers who succeed in answers. Nobody has patience to ask questions. We hurry to launch ourselves with half certainties and quarters of truth that we have with ardor. We often hurry because our hatreds presses. It almost suffers us. We can break the daily routine only for verbal or physical violence. This is the world in which we live. Sensei spoke to us today of the importance of remaining calm in such a world. To achieve an inner balance that creates an advantage in a clash (of any kind it is). It is difficult to achieve such a goal, but it is not impossible. It can be with training. He also told us a lot about the history of the chain as a weapon in Ninja, he showed us an old chain used by the Ninja fighters.
On me, what I tell you? Subsequently, to hang the opponent’s hand with the weapon, something is difficult for me. I conclude by cutting or escaping the opponent. Obviously, the legs are missing during the call. My brain is very focused on my hands. I have the impression that he wants to renew all mine. The suspicion of treason! 🙂 It is true that I worked on seminars with a chain or with the rope. I couldn’t say that there is a connection between me and them. My grandmother told me (jokingly, saying): «Well, these are soft like you, you should understand yourself!«Yes, what to say?! Thanks, well! 🙂
If in the phase with Salamandra I had doubts that it would be real, I had the opportunity to test a «theory» that seemed to me a myth. Sensei told us that the sword is a shield, that if you put the sword in front of you and sit on the line, you can hide behind it and if someone throws you with Shuriken, you will not be hit. I had doubts because even if I am a little thin, I can’t hide even after a sword. Well, I confirm now: It is true. Perhaps! As I worked with the chain (I was a pitcher after the sword), my colleague escaped my hand and saw it slowly, passing before my eyes. I did not move from the line (well, not that I had a choice, because I told you that my feet are sleeping) and Well I did it! He didn’t touch me. In addition, to almost all the other attempts, the chain stopped in Bokken. Signature that the sword can also be a shield and my colleague had set his goal well.
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