The delusion of function

One of our most entrenched of intellectual habits is to seek the function of phenomena. The sage is as much a part of nature as the fool – yet the sage sits and does nothing and the fool works aimlessly to no higher purpose. But abandon the concepts of higher and lower and you will find that everyone just occurs as it does and there is no function behind anything that we can discern. The moment we see things in terms of their function we start moving on to seeing things as intrinsically better than others and thus fall into delusion.