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.
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,那是從我四歲就學起的。
The metaphor of Mahishasura Mardhini, of Durga. Durga, the mother goddess, the fearless one, created by the pantheon of Hindu gods.
濕婆神的意象杜爾迦女神。杜爾迦女神,無畏的神母,由印度諸神所創造。
Durga, resplendent, bedecked, beautiful, her 18 arms ready for warfare, as she rode astride her lion into the battlefield to destroy Mahishasur.
杜爾迦女神,輝煌、雍容、美麗,她的十八支手臂隨時準備戰斗,她乘坐神獅進入戰場去毀滅水牛阿修羅。
Durga, the epitome of creative feminine energy, or shakti.
杜爾迦女神,女性創造力量的象征或者叫女性力量。

Durga, the fearless one. I made that image of Durga and her every attribute, her every nuance, my very own.
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,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.
在她那種神秘符號的推動下,并伴隨著我對訓練的熱情,我像激光刀般精準的專注于我的舞蹈,像激光刀般專注這樣一個領域,在手術之后我跳了幾周的舞。
I danced through chemo and radiation cycles, much to the dismay of my oncologist.
在化療和放射療法的治療周期我依然跳舞,我的治療醫生很驚異。
I danced between chemo and radiation cycles and badgered him to fit it to my performing dance schedule.
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劃。
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.
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。