Dispassionate Observation Observing with no attachments to, or investment in, the outcome of an occurrence is dispassionate observation. There is no excess involved. By excess I mean opinions, judgments, meanings. A person who dispassionately observes another can “sense” another’s thoughts and respond accordingly: “If I see the road upon which a man walks I know where he will turn.” There is no lag here between thought and occurrence, between the experience of energy and its movement; in fact, there is no emotion.
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Dispassionate Observation Observing with no attachments to, or investment in, the outcome of an occurrence is dispassionate observation. There is no excess involved. By excess I mean opinions, judgments, meanings. A person who dispassionately observes another can “sense” another’s thoughts and respond accordingly: “If I see the road upon which a man walks I know where he will turn.” There is no lag here between thought and occurrence, between the experience of energy and its movement; in fact, there is no emotion.