SHIN JIN MEI | 信心銘- TWENTY-THREE

"When you are not prejudiced against the six sense-objects,
You are then one with the Enlightenment;
The wise are non-active,
While the ignorant bind themselves up;"

Being fully open to what is present without adding is being one with Enlightenment. This manifests appropriate action. Having a taste of the Absolute is certainly seeing into the essence - kenshō - but it is not enlightenment. When we can be open and operate with what is at hand without prejudice, we manifest wisdom fully and are One with the Way.

From the perspective of discriminating mind, therefore, the wise are non-active. When we are ignorant of the way, we engage in endless picking and choosing - thus choosing our own prison as we are bound by delusive thoughts.