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If you were writing your Ode to Joy, how would it sound? And how would you achieve it?<\/p>\n
As we look into a new year, a new decade, with the theme of Deep Joy at Still & Moving Center, I\u2019m wondering what it is that brings this sense of Joy. It\u2019s not the kind of joy whose opposite it sorrow. This Deep Joy often finds its way through a world of suffering and sorrow, to emerge, radiant, connected to everyone and everything. Kahlil Gibran reminds us that the deeper sorrow carves into our being, the more room we have for Joy.<\/p>\n
Actually, I suspect that we truly find this Deep Joy to the extent that we feel our life has purpose, meaning. When what we do affects others \u2013 hopefully positively \u2013 our existence here on earth has made a difference. It takes some people a long time to find their specific mission, and in the meantime, everything we do can be a preparation for it. Sometimes it just falls into our lap, after a long period of yearning and waiting. I didn\u2019t know I was meant to open Still & Moving Center until 7 months before we opened, and I was 55 at the time.<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t tell you how much Joy it\u2019s given me since then to hold space for our students, teachers, therapists and staff to \u201cclaim their magnificence\u201d in this community center \/ school of moving meditation! I certainly could never have accomplished it any earlier in my life, as my work, study, family, professional experience, and spiritual practice all formed necessary foundational stones.<\/p>\n
The book I\u2019m reading now, \u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adThe Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling by \u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adStephen Cope, is all about finding and pursuing our dharma, a richly conceptual Sanskrit word meaning our life-purpose, duty, raison d\u2019\u00eatre. The underlying assumption is that each of us comes into the world with a unique purpose to fulfil. If we look at our circumstances and at the many attributes of our natures, we can find what it is we are best suited to do in this life. It may or may not be how we earn our living, financially speaking. It always has to do with how we find the soul-satisfaction of finding and doing what we do best.<\/p>\n
I love the author\u2019s real-life examples, such as Harriet Tubman, a black slave who had watched her family members being split and sold to other plantations. After escaping herself, Harriet helped thousands of others to freedom via the \u201cUnderground Railroad\u201d of which she was a \u201cconductor\u201d. She performed these services at great personal risk. She was a highly WANTED person by Southern plantation owners whose slaves she was spiriting away. They wanted her re-enslaved or dead. While she could have stayed safely in the North, Harriet felt absolutely compelled to return to the South again and again to rescue others, regardless of possible consequences.<\/p>\n
Harriet showed an uncanny ability to avoid capture, to change plans in a twinkling based on an intuition that told her to do so. As a Christian, she always felt as if she was guided and protected by Providence. She asked for no payment for her services, and even after the Civil War and Emancipation of the slaves, she lived the most modest of lives in meager circumstances. Doing our dharma doesn\u2019t always yield a pay check. I imagine her satisfaction, her Joy, at realizing how many people she had saved from cruelty and led to freedom, how many families she had reunited.<\/p>\n
Ludwig van Beethoven\u2019s fulfilling of his life purpose led him through tremendous suffering in other ways. He was born to a musical family, receiving his early musical training from his father, a talented but hard-hearted man. Ludwig developed such an eccentric personality, it was difficult to spend time with him. No one else at the time could completely comprehend the new rhythmic and melodic structures he was creating. Yet his dedication to his work and his genius as a musician, composer and conductor dazzled all the society people of his day.<\/p>\n
To his horror, Beethoven began losing his hearing while still in his twenties. He first tried to hide it from people, then went into seclusion. Being thwarted in the occupation he so brilliantly performed, he questioned his existence, came close to losing his mind, and contemplated suicide. Yet he kept hearing the music in his head, in his soul. Beethoven held onto his musical dharma for dear life \u2013 literally \u2013 when all else failed him, and went on to compose his greatest masterpieces after becoming deaf. He came to realize that the world needed his music. Only by bringing forth the music moving within him did Beethoven find a sense of peace, even Joy.<\/p>\n
Indeed, he composed his final complete symphony, Beethoven\u2019s 9th, based on Schiller\u2019s poem \u201cOde to Joy\u201d. Its debut performance in 1824 happened less than three years before his death at age 56. Violinist Joseph B\u00f6hm recalled the performance:<\/p>\n
\u201cBeethoven himself conducted, that is, he stood in front of a conductor\u2019s stand and threw himself back and forth like a madman. At one moment he stretched to his full height, at the next he crouched down to the floor, he flailed about with his hands and feet as though he wanted to play all the instruments and sing all the chorus parts. \u2014 The actual direction was in [Louis] Duport\u2019s hands; we musicians followed his baton only.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beethoven was several measures off and still \u2018conducting\u2019 when the musicians finished the piece and the audience began applauding exuberantly. One of the singers then walked over and turned Beethoven around to accept the audience\u2019s acclaim. Even though he could not hear their clapping and cheers, he could see their five ovations, with handkerchiefs in the air, hats, and raised hands.<\/p>\n
While the audience\u2019s reception undoubtedly gratified Beethoven when he saw it, he was in a state of utter Joy directing his symphony before he ever turned around to see their response.<\/p>\n
Mahatma Gandhi found an entirely different path to Joy. His life course led him from fear as a child and dismal failure as a young lawyer, to eventually leading the entire nation of India to freedom from the British Empire. To shrink the vastness of his 80-year life story into a few words, Gandhi came to realize that he did indeed have assets and abilities that he could access\u2026 but only when he stopped worrying about his own success or failure and instead put himself to work for the sake of others. Just as a trustee for a non-profit organization takes care to see that all the organization\u2019s assets are put to the highest and best use, Gandhi came to see that his life did not belong to him, it belonged to the world.<\/p>\n
With that realization, Gandhi cheerfully spent years locked in British-run prisons for his non-violent civil disobedience campaigns to free his people. He faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles and willingly looked death in the face on many occasions, knowing that his life was being spent for a greater cause than himself, following his dharma. Personal suffering became insignificant to him \u2013 it was all part of a deeper Joy.<\/p>\n
Most people\u2019s dharma lines are less grandiose \u2013 and absolutely as valuable \u2013 as those of Harriet Tubman, Beethoven and Gandhi. Yet the example of these three people\u2019s lives begs the question of us: Are we open to finding and refinding our dharma, our life path, which could lead us \u2013 and others \u2013 to Deep Joy?<\/p>\n
Dancing in Joy and resting in stillness with you,<\/p>\n
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