Grief Is Another Aspect of Consciousness - 10th November 2017

Ellen says, "Father, can you talk about disidentification from suffering? My aunt died seven hours ago. In this moment, I'm having trouble with the identification."

So, when an event has happened, then we must not have an expectation that grief should not come now because I have become free. Grief is also part of the natural functioning of this existence. So, allow room for this grief to come, but see if there is a 'one' who is grieving. So, in the grief, grief can be felt, but the griever is not there; the sufferer is not. And then what you will discover in this is that in your Being, there's so much space that all of this grief can come but doesn't make a scratch on Being. It only seems to gain her identity, which was never real anyway. Only emotions about yourself can be attacked.

So, grief is another aspect of Consciousness which can be allowed to come and go. All the flavors in this entire spectrum of sensations, Consciousness is playing this way to taste all of this. Sometimes joy, sometimes grief. We don't confuse the rising of the sensation or an emotion to be an identification. Then you, when you pick up the idea that 'I am suffering,' that is identification. Before that, it is all just moving sensations on the screen of Consciousness.