June 6 2020

Life Not Depending On Exercise

Decades ago, there was a very popular saying in China that life depends upon exercise. Is it true really? If we think deeply, it is not true. Exercise is important to our health to keep our blood running smoothly, like streaming water in the high mountains rushing down endlessly day after day, night after night to the sea.
But exercise can only help our health, not to support our life. Exercise can not help us to live. It is because young people do not need exercise to live and middle-aged person can live smoothly if they are carefully in their daily life. They do not live by exercise.
Only those of old people who need exercise to live more comfortably and beautifully will think about the importance of exercise. But the question following is that when their aging is approaching, they do not have energy to do any exercise they need.
We wish to say that our life does not depend on exercise. What the old people need is the peacefulness of heart, to live a life like a turtle which can live one hundred years just by lying peacefully on the ground, with a very slow beat of heart.