Sunday, March 31, 2013

Welcoming Weakness

Having a strength, means having a weakness.

Over my life, I have been frustrated by weakness.  Even the concept of weakness seemed to equal imperfection or flaws.  Flaws that I should fix.  In fact, they were given to me as a type of challenge.  That if I organized myself and truly tried that I would be able to be victorious and the weak thing would then be strong.  Like Captain Moroni purposefully finding the weakest city, knowing that it would be attacked as an easy conquest, and making that city one of the strongest in the nation.

I have no doubt that this is true.  We can improve as in we can become more strong or more stable.
However, this can not apply in all things.  Another truth is that in order for there to be a strength, there must be a weakness.

Martial arts: attacking leaves openings for counters
Economy:  spending money on something meaning denying money from something else.
Plants:   grow in strength and grow in flexibility
Taoist:  day and night, plug in any yin/yang example.
Mormonism: following the commandments, inability to see the exceptions to the commandments  (even Nephi had a hard time with this)

Many weaknesses do not need fixed.  They are simply the yin or yang from our choices that is present now and it will change again soon.

Interestingly, it only when the that yin or yang force becomes controlling, that it becomes an issue.

Martial arts: attacking wildly leaves dangerous openings for counters
Economy:  spending money excessively on something.
Plants:   too much strength and it breaks in the wind.
Taoist:  too much day and its Vegas in the summer, beware red heads.
Mormonism: following the commandments, inability to see the people (looking beyond the mark)
Alma expressed this frustation in making his wish that he was an angel to shake the earth in crying repentance.

We must make choices, this actions remove us from wu chi  into the yin or the yang.
(see: http://www2.nau.edu/taichi-p/images/wuchi.jpg   or Adam, Eve and the garden)

After time with one, I would bemoan that I could not have both.  In fact, we can become choice debilitated by knowing that choosing will make a weakness.

This is a matter for faith.  Trust that in choosing yin; yang will be along soon.  It is the natural response and must come.  Welcome it with open arms.






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