In our culture, invulnerability usually implies a stance against emotion, a false sense of being impenetrable, that this body cannot be hurt or will not die. But the invulnerability of our essential nature is a pure openness, an undefended spaciousness in which we step back and allow the winds of fear to blow right through us. There is no place for our fear to stick, no ground on which it can land. We can drop the struggle, relax our unnecessary efforts, and rest in a state of defenselessness.
