Waiting

Murder Bound, xviii.

"A Buddhist saint might have had trouble waiting calmly, and Yamamura laid no such claims." (p. 157)

However, we neither lay claims nor try to wait calmly but sit with the fact that we are waiting very uncalmly! - if that is in fact what we are doing. The practice does make some difference although usually over time.

I posted about meditation and waiting here, when comparing passages in sf works by Poul Anderson and CS Lewis.