Finding marrow

What is the marrow of life?

In Thoreau’s opinion, he thinks that simplicity is essential to the search of it. Withdraw yourself from any unnecessary needs; go into the woods, live deeply. The marrow, in my opinion, is simply living.

Are you living? Do you know it? What is it?

Living cannot be simply identified as a biological action. Why Thoreau intend to move into the woods? Life is too complex. Some of us may know, but few of us realize the truth that in most situations we are not living but lived on. The miserable fact derives from the excess desire of materials. Just settle down for a while and take some consideration. Think of those questions. As you think, you will find the things around you are mostly unnecessary, because you don’t live on them. However, you may also question that it is approach animal-like life. What is human? In my opinion, the greatest thing that human can do is to abandon. That is, to use intelligent eyesight to identify the truth behind the substances. Once you achieve the abandonment, you are living.

Based on the idea, I find my way of sucking the marrow of life. Although I cannot go into the woods and live there, I can avoid being influenced. Just as Confucius says “Don’t be delighted by materials, neither be sad by yourself.”