Responses
I think that’s the most human thing about Sangha. Most minds would draw comfort from things that remind them of their dead loved ones. If my grandpa possessed some stranger I’d be a skeptic at first unless he told me things that only he and I knew about and then spent the whole day with me like fishing and eating foods we both enjoyed then he said goodbye to me and left the stranger then I’d start seeing comfort in the stranger too due to said possession.
If I may I feel like the boss doesn't actually like the newbie but sees him as his ex after the possession bcoz think about it, after his death, he came back to him to say goodbye or whatever.The boss knows he's gone and the newbie's not his ex but nevertheless finds comfort in the newbie bcoz he was possessed by his ex.