經(jīng)典勵(lì)志演講：用舞蹈戰(zhàn)勝癌癥
導(dǎo)讀：享有盛譽(yù)的印度舞蹈家Ananda Shankar Jayant在2008年被診斷出患有癌癥。她講述自己的故事。她的故事并不僅僅是面對(duì)疾病，而是用舞蹈戰(zhàn)勝疾病。期間她向觀眾展示了幫助她戰(zhàn)勝癌癥的，包含印度神秘意象的舞蹈。
Ananda Shankar Jayant：Fights cancer with dance用舞蹈戰(zhàn)勝癌癥
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[Sanskrit] This is an ode to the mother goddess, that most of us in India learn when we are children. I learned it when I was four at my mother's knee. That year she introduced me to dance, and thus began my tryst with classical dance. Since then -- it's been four decades now -- I've trained with the best in the field, performed across the globe, taught young and old alike, created, collaborated, choreographed, and wove a rich tapestry of artistry, achievement and awards. The crowning glory was in 2007, when I received this country's fourth highest civilian award, the Padma Shri, for my contribution to art.
(梵文)，有一首關(guān)于印度神母的頌歌，是我們大部分的印度人從小就學(xué)習(xí)的。在我四歲的時(shí)候也學(xué)習(xí)了這首歌，坐在我母親的膝頭上。也正是那一年，她引導(dǎo)我進(jìn)入舞蹈的殿堂。而這一開端，正是我與印度古典舞幽會(huì)的伊始。從那時(shí)開始，到現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)40年了——，我?guī)煆倪@一行最優(yōu)秀的舞者，在世界各地演出，教導(dǎo)年輕的和年老的舞蹈愛好者，創(chuàng)造，合作，編舞，我編織了一個(gè)絢麗的掛毯，用我的藝術(shù)，成就，和獎(jiǎng)?wù)隆?007年我獲得了至高無上的榮譽(yù)，那一年 我得到了印度，授予公民的第四高榮譽(yù)，蓮花獎(jiǎng)(Padma Shri)，作為我對(duì)藝術(shù)貢獻(xiàn)的回報(bào)
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But nothing, nothing prepared me for what I was to hear on the first of July 2008. I heard the word "carcinoma." Yes, breast cancer. As I sat dumbstruck in my doctor's office, I heard other words: "cancer," "stage," "grade." Until then, Cancer was the zodiac sign of my friend, stage was what I performed on, and grades were what I got in school. That day, I realized I had an unwelcome, uninvited, new life partner. As a dancer, I know the nine rasas or the navarasas: anger, valor, disgust, humor and fear. I thought I knew what fear was. That day, I learned what fear was.
但是任何事都不足以讓我有心理準(zhǔn)備，去面對(duì)我將要得知的，在2008年的7月1號(hào)，我得知了一個(gè)詞“惡性腫瘤”，是的，乳腺癌，我坐在醫(yī)生的辦公室里，呆若木雞，我聽到了另外一些詞，“癌癥”，“期”，“惡性程度”，那時(shí)之前，癌(Cancer)是十二宮中的巨蟹座。是我朋友的星座，“期”(Stage)是我表演的舞臺(tái)，“惡性程度”(Grade)是我在學(xué)校得到的成績，那一天，我意識(shí)到，我有一個(gè)不受歡迎的，不請(qǐng)自來的，新終生伴侶，作為一個(gè)舞者，我知道九情操(印度古典舞蹈中通過肢體或表情表達(dá)不同情緒的方式)，憤怒，勇敢，厭惡，詼諧，與恐怖，我以為我知道什么是恐懼，那一天，我學(xué)會(huì)了什么是恐懼
Overcome with the enormity of it all and the complete feeling of loss of control, I shed copious tears and asked my dear husband, Jayant. I said, "Is this it? Is this the end of the road? Is this the end of my dance?" And he, the positive soul that he is, said, "No, this is just a hiatus, a hiatus during the treatment, and you'll get back to doing what you do best."
經(jīng)歷所有的巨痛，并徹底感到失去控制，我流了很多淚水，問我親愛的丈夫，Jayant，我說，“結(jié)束了么?這就是我生命之路的盡頭么?”，這就是我舞蹈的終結(jié)么?，然而他，這個(gè)樂觀的靈魂，說，“不，這只是一個(gè)間隙，治療的間隙，而且你將回來做你擅長的事
I realized then that I, who thought I had complete control of my life, had control of only three things: My thought, my mind -- the images that these thoughts created -- and the action that derived from it. So here I was wallowing in a vortex of emotions and depression and what have you, with the enormity of the situation, wanting to go to a place of healing, health and happiness. I wanted to go from where I was to where I wanted to be, for which I needed something. I needed something that would pull me out of all this. So I dried my tears, and I declared to the world at large ... I said, "Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life."
當(dāng)時(shí)我醒悟到，我認(rèn)為自己完全控制了自己的人生，但我僅僅控制了3件事，我的思想，我的情緒——，這些思想所創(chuàng)造的想象，和由這些想象所引起的行動(dòng)，所以現(xiàn)在我沉迷于，一種情緒的漩渦中，沮喪，和那些令你，感到情況的嚴(yán)酷的思緒，我想得到痊愈，健康和幸福，我想從現(xiàn)在的我，到達(dá)我想到的彼方，為了達(dá)到這一目標(biāo)，我需要有一股可以把我從痛苦中拉出來的力量，所以 我擦干淚水，然后 我向世界宣告，我說，癌癥只是我生命中的一頁，我不會(huì)讓這一頁去影響我其余的人生
I also declared to the world at large that I would ride it out, and I would not allow cancer to ride me. But to go from where I was to where I wanted to be, I needed something. I needed an anchor, an image, a peg to peg this process on, so that I could go from there. And I found that in my dance, my dance, my strength, my energy, my passion, my very life breath. But it wasn't easy. Believe me, it definitely wasn't easy. How do you keep cheer when you go from beautiful to bald in three days? How do you not despair when, with the body ravaged by chemotherapy, climbing a mere flight of stairs was sheer torture, that to someone like me who could dance for three hours? How do you not get overwhelmed by the despair and the misery of it all? All I wanted to do was curl up and weep. But I kept telling myself fear and tears are options I did not have.
我還向世界宣告，我將度過難關(guān)，我不會(huì)允許癌癥將我打倒，但是 要從我的現(xiàn)狀，到達(dá)我的期望，我需要一些東西，我需要一個(gè)依靠，一種意象，一個(gè)標(biāo)桿，釘在這一過程的起始，然后我可以從那里開始，然后 我從舞蹈中發(fā)現(xiàn)了它，我的舞蹈，我的力量，我的能量，我的熱情，我生命的氣息，但這并不容易，相信我，這絕不容易，你怎能保持振奮，在你的外型從美麗，在三天之內(nèi)變成禿字，你怎能不絕望，在你的身體對(duì)化療產(chǎn)生不良反應(yīng)時(shí)，爬幾節(jié)樓梯都像攀登險(xiǎn)峰，對(duì)于我這樣一個(gè)能連續(xù)跳3個(gè)小時(shí)的舞者?，你怎能不彷徨失措，因?yàn)橥纯嗪徒^望，我想做的只有蜷縮起來哭泣，但是我一直告訴我自己 畏縮和哭泣，都不是我將要做的選擇
So I would drag myself into my dance studio -- body, mind and spirit -- every day into my dance studio, and learn everything I learned when I was four, all over again, reworked, relearned, regrouped. It was excruciatingly painful, but I did it. Difficult. I focused on my mudras, on the imagery of my dance, on the poetry and the metaphor and the philosophy of the dance itself. And slowly, I moved out of that miserable state of mind.
所以我強(qiáng)拉自己到我的舞蹈室，我的身體，思想，和靈魂，每天都在我的舞蹈室，學(xué)習(xí)我曾經(jīng)學(xué)習(xí)過的所有東西，就好像我又回到四歲，從新工作，從頭學(xué)習(xí)，從新組織，這一過程非常痛苦，但是我完成了，困難，我專注于我的身印手印，專注于我舞蹈的意境，專注于韻律和意象，和舞蹈的哲學(xué)本身，然后 緩慢的 我脫離了，我心中的悲慘境遇
But I needed something else. I needed something to go that extra mile, and I found it in that metaphor which I had learned from my mother when I was four. The metaphor of Mahishasura Mardhini, of Durga. Durga, the mother goddess, the fearless one, created by the pantheon of Hindu gods. Durga, resplendent, bedecked, beautiful, her 18 arms ready for warfare, as she rode astride her lion into the battlefield to destroy Mahishasur. Durga, the epitome of creative feminine energy, or shakti. Durga, the fearless one. I made that image of Durga and her every attribute, her every nuance, my very own.
但是 我需要另外一些東西，我需要增加我的旅程，我在意象中找到了它，那是從我四歲就學(xué)起的，濕婆神的意象，杜爾迦女神，杜爾迦女神 無畏的神母，由印度諸神所創(chuàng)造，杜爾迦女神 輝煌 雍容 美麗，她的十八支手臂，隨時(shí)準(zhǔn)備戰(zhàn)斗，她乘坐神獅，進(jìn)入戰(zhàn)場去毀滅水牛阿修羅，杜爾迦女神，女性創(chuàng)造力量的象征，或者叫女性力量，杜爾迦 無畏的女神，我做成了杜爾迦女神的意象，和她所有的.屬性和特質(zhì)，我專屬的意象
Powered by the symbology of a myth and the passion of my training, I brought laser-sharp focus into my dance, laser-sharp focus to such an extent that I danced a few weeks after surgery. I danced through chemo and radiation cycles, much to the dismay of my oncologist. I danced between chemo and radiation cycles and badgered him to fit it to my performing dance schedule. What I had done is I had tuned out of cancer and tuned into my dance. Yes, cancer has just been one page in my life.
在她那種神秘符號(hào)的推動(dòng)下，并伴隨著我對(duì)訓(xùn)練的熱情，我像激光刀般精準(zhǔn)的專注于我的舞蹈，像激光刀般專注這樣一個(gè)領(lǐng)域，在手術(shù)之后我跳了幾周的舞，在化療和放射療法的治療周期我依然跳舞，我的治療醫(yī)生很驚異，我在化療和放射的期間跳舞，我糾纏著讓他使治療周期，配合我的舞蹈計(jì)劃，我所成就的是，我擺脫了癌癥，專注于我的舞蹈，是的，癌癥只成為我生命中的一頁
My story is a story of overcoming setbacks, obstacles and challenges that life throws at you. My story is the power of thought. My story is the power of choice. It's the power of focus. It's the power of bringing ourselves to the attention of something that so animates you, so moves you, that something even like cancer becomes insignificant. My story is the power of a metaphor. It's the power of an image. Mine was that of Durga, Durga the fearless one. She was also called Simhanandini, the one who rode the lion.
我的故事，是一個(gè)克服挫折，障礙和挑戰(zhàn)的故事，那些生命帶給你的，我的故事是思想的力量，我的故事是選擇的力量，是專注的力量，這是一種力量讓我們注意那些，賦予我們生機(jī)活力，深刻的感動(dòng)我們，和令癌癥變得無足輕重的東西，我的故事是意境的力量，是意象的力量，我的意象是杜爾迦，杜爾迦無畏的女神，她也叫做Simhanandini，騎獅子的人
As I ride out, as I ride my own inner strength, my own inner resilience, armed as I am with what medication can provide and continue treatment, as I ride out into the battlefield of cancer, asking my rogue cells to behave, I want to be known not as a cancer survivor, but as a cancer conqueror.
在我度過難關(guān)的過程中，我駕馭了我自己的內(nèi)在力量，我的內(nèi)在恢復(fù)力，我武裝自己并聯(lián)合治療效果，我繼續(xù)治療，我經(jīng)歷了與癌癥的戰(zhàn)爭，我命令那些肆意妄為的細(xì)胞順從起來，我希望被世人認(rèn)可，不是作為癌癥幸存者，而是作為癌癥征服者
I present to you an excerpt of that work "Simhanandini."
我向你們呈現(xiàn)一段我的舞蹈，“獅子吼經(jīng)”(Simhanandani)
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