Vulnerability: Weakness or Strength?

Answer 1

Sunman and I were just talking about the desert. How quiet she is, allowing things to past threw her, very gentle she is, but the power she holds for transformation is truly beyond the scope of words to convey, but can be known by embracing her.

Answer 2

Here's another aspect of it. This does not in any way discount what has been covered.

I noticed in the dictionary that there is a word "vuln" .

Apparently a pelican will bite it's breast "which was once believed to feed it's young with it's blood."

There is something that happens when you deliberately allow a "person of dark means" to hurt you.

They drop their ego defenses. They think, since you are obviously no threat, that they don't have to hide Anything about themselves from you.

The way to overcome a person of dark means, is to know their secrets.

So is vulnerability a strength or a weakness in this case? Well, doing this does involve pain, but when you chose to do it, the pain pretty much never results in more than irritation, embarrassment, or ...lets see.....nope, that's it. Because your attention is almost entirely on the excellent gift your enemy is about to "lovingly" give you. Wait that's just whether it's painful.

Is it strength or weakness?.......neither. It's just a tool. In this case anyway.

; )

Answer 3

Thought, Word and Deed in line and in harmony causing vulnerability perhaps the greatest strength and add on to the Real and Genuvine Confidence and Fearlessness ie but perceived as weakness by the non - confident and egotistic, fearful ones who act as otherwise outwardly.

SAI RAM

Answer 4

Sorry to do this, but ....

I'll answer a question with a question,

Is a true hero, or heroine, someone without fear ? ;-)))

So yet again, it comes down to the base semantics of the question. The dictionary tells us that 'vulnerability' is most certainly 'weakness', exposure to 'attack', and so on, so there can be no doubt about that.

However I sense that the real meaning of your question doesn't lie there.

I think that it is the willingness of a person to render themselves, intentionally, 'vulnerable' that the point lies. This takes great courage, to expose our weakest parts, most sensitive, to the possibility of being exploited against us is one of the hardest things that we do here, in this dense, heavy 'place'.

It is probably the reason why close personal relationships seem to be so hard for us to establish and maintain, we do not like, once having been 'burned', to put our hands back in the 'Fire'.

( Puts his asbestos gloves back on and heads out into the wild blue yonder )

{{{{{{{{{{{Cosmic Strength}}}}}}}}}}}}

Edit :

I just remembered a wonderful line from the equally wonderful movie, "Meet Joe Black", Joe is talking to Quince, the son in law, and asks him how he knows when someone is in love with you, Quince says "It's when they know the worst thing about you, and it's OK"

Voila, vulnerability in a nutshell. :-)))

Answer 5

It is a strength and a weakness
if you are vulnerable it opens you up to being hurt easily
being vulnerable is also a strength as it allows you to see a side of people they wouldnt show the rest of us
their humanity

Answer 6

Weakness

Answer 7

Hi rw, Great question! I have been wondering this very thing as of late. Gotta feel and get back on this one.......Well I just read you philmeta and I like that very much.....
At first I would say it is a weakness, to open and expose one self, but it actually takes a great deal of strength to willingly be vulnerable.

Answer 8

Perhaps it is both, and the value of the peak of the "strength" lies in the depth of the willingness to stand within the truth of the valley of the "weakness".

To be vulnerable, to stand open, with no defense, no reason, no projected outcome - is to be fully present in the moment. It is, as Cdancer stated in response to another question, "Unconditional Love, is simply accepting the presence of the divine".

What if utter and complete vulnerability had everything to do with the cognition of our own Enlightenment. What if being intimate within ourselves was our key to unlocking that door of knowing, and upon the opening, we found ourselves Divine, waiting to meet ourself on the other side...

and that the willingness to be vulnerable in the world, with others, was simply practice towards the actualization of being then vulnerable to/with our Self......

what is your belief, what is your "rule", of what will happen if you open yourself, and offer your heart up.......

namaste

Answer 9

Some of us have all three, and most of us can control them. I have Strength to understand, and to know whan I'm wrong, I have Strength to believe in myself, and in God. My weakness is doing to much, but i have the Strength to overcome it.
I have the Strength to have an open mind, to look at all things with an open heart.
There are many on here who are weak because they have closed minds, taking the easy way out. I'm not saying that they should believe in God, or little green men, but should have the Strength to keep an open mind, and not listen to others, and make up their own mind.
Look how many of the weak have allowed themselves to be brainwashed into killing in the name of God.

Answer 10

A tool of strength.

Let me explain.... this isn't the same as being a victim. True vulnerability is really being trans-parent.

The releasing of self-definition and just allowing the self to shine through.

We come with so many barriers that to protect our vulnerability is almost second nature to most of us. When I see someone lay themselves open with blinding clarity, I sit in awe.

Literal AWE.

THERE YOU ARE!

It cannot be done in the state of inner protection. It truly can't.
Practicing vulnerability is really an aspect of the divine self.
Open it up, there is so much more.

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