Vulnerability and the Mind

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Vulnerability and the Mind

 

'Vulnerability' is one of those verbs that

can be transitive (has a direct object),

or intransitive (does not have a direct

object).

 

I am using it here in an intransitive sense.

So the question " Vulnerable to what " does

not apply.

 

To me, vulnerability and being are effectively

the same. To be vulnerable and to simply be

express the same, but the term 'vulnerable' is,

I believe helpful because to simply talk in terms

of " being " can seem very abstract.

 

Being vulnerable is to put oneself on the line.

" Who " is being put " on the line " ? This is just

an expression, but it effectively entails

surrender into something unknown. It is a leaving

of the " mind hat " at the door and melting in

to the unknown what-is.

 

To me it doesn't matter about any *actual* who,

as some sort of existing entity. What is

significant is any *sense* of who. Vulnerability

is to me the dissolving of, the freedom from, a

" sense of who " .

 

The mind can play a lot of games, but vulnerability

is one that it does not know how to play. That is

because the mind is about security, safety, and

vulnerability is about nakeness, wanton abandom of

concern about security, safety.

 

Vulnerability is about walking into the heart-zone,

and leaving who walked there behind, checked in --

as the mind-hat -- at the door.

 

 

 

 

Bill

6-2003