-T when observatiOhis aligns with the Buddhist emphasis on true observation — seeing phenomena as they arise and pass without distortion.
-bservation is ethically neutral when it is:
W when observation is not disparagement
ithout them, the act is not disparagement.
It takes time to read a whole book. It takes time to read a chapter. It takes time to read a paragraph. It takes time to read a sentence. Sometimes it even takes time to read a word.
I was around twenty minutes early, and strangers had taken up an awkward arrangement where, wherever you sat, you had to sit shoulder to shoulder with someone else. I sat down gingerly, put my papers in the empty seat next to me, and waited.