Observation

To observe something you have to be outside of it. To see what your whole house looks

like you need to step outside.

So telling your mind to observe something can be a way to `trick it' to get outside

of that something.

In particular, to observe suffering you have to get yourself outside of it.

To observe impermanence, you have to get yourself outside of the field of things

that are conditioned and fluctuating, getting closer what is absolute and not relative.