“One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is wise among men.” Two errors are corrected at once. The first is to think the busy person is necessarily bound: he may act ceaselessly and yet, having given up the sense of doership and the craving for fruit, remain wholly untouched — inaction in the midst of action. The second is to think the idle person is free: he may sit still in his cave and yet churn inwardly with desire and resolve — action in the midst of apparent inaction. What binds is never the outer movement but the inner “I-doer” (see 3.27). Remove that, and the most strenuous action leaves no trace, as a line drawn on water.