Sublime

For the heart/mind (xinxue) or Wang Yangming school of neo-Confucianism, the Ultimate can only be realized through the self, which has a fundamental, though often unrealized, unity with the universe. Self-realization takes place through the purification of the egotistic desires and moral resolve of the inner subject to act upon the world.

In a sense our saṁskāras are quite functional because they allow us to process and react to our perceptions without having to exert the energy and presence of mind required to observe and assess whatever is arising anew.