The teacher of grief — every tradition's view

Every wisdom tradition has addressed grief, and most have understood it as a teacher rather than simply a problem to be solved. From Buddhist confrontation with impermanence to Jewish argument with God to the Sufi understanding of longing as the very substance of the spiritual path, grief has been recognized as a place where the deepest learning tends to occur. This domain surveys the traditions and extracts what they have in common and where they illuminatingly differ.