John 16:5 · World English Bible

John 16:5 Meaning But Now I Am Going to Him

But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’

What does John 16:5 mean?

Sorrow narrows attention to itself. Grief has closed the mind.

From the Ego v. Being reading below.

The same verse, read by one tradition.

EGO & BEING

Sorrow narrows attention to itself.

Grief has closed the mind. Attention has collapsed onto the loss instead of opening toward what the loss reveals.

Ego v. Being lens

When sadness pulls everything inward today, lift your eyes and take in the room, the sky out the window, the sounds in the street. Keep the sadness and widen the view at the same time.
Ask someone close to you a real question about their life, even if you are the one hurting. Letting another person in loosens the grip a little.
Under stress, when your attention narrows to the one bad thing, name three ordinary things around you out loud. Attention opens, and the one bad thing goes back to being one thing.

What have I stopped seeing because one loss is taking up the whole frame?

Ask what this thing really is, strip away the story you have added, and look at the whole of which it is one small part.

Holding on tight is where the ache comes from. The ache is not a reason to grip harder.

When one thing goes, room opens for what is coming. The empty space is part of how things work, not a mistake.

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