Body, Shadow, Spirit

The poem “Body, Shadow, and Spirit” brings up a time-honored question of what one is living for in life. The poem also shows that internally these three parts are arguing with which one should be remembered for, should it be ones actual body (flesh), ones shadow (what you will be remembered for), or ones Spirit (what lives inside of you). This poem is written on T’oa Ch’ien’s opinion and beliefs about what …

…be your guide”. The spirit will help one stay out of bad situations by making one fell guilty of partaking. Probably if not any other reason that one should live for ones spirit is that one can take it with them once one dies, into eternity where life on Earth seems as of a spec unto its enormous span of time. This is why one should live for spirit and not for body or Shadow.