The duality flow, the constant interaction of opposites, is always there to ensure you feel complete. Therefore, if you do not feel fulfilled, you are mistaken. Thankfully, by acknowledging the duality of breathing, you feel satisfied in the constant rhythm of opposites. Hence, you have a happy time in the duality flow as it returns to its source: non-duality.
Newsletter on 10 July 2025
Being aligned with the breath is a fundamental way to experience the duality flow. However, you do not attend to breathing in the manner described regarding aum and sohang (Duality Hack #11.4) or the empty breath (Duality Hack #9.4). Actually, it’s not about how you breathe, but rather the continuous interaction of within and without that it entails. This interplay is a constant, whether you breathe slowly or fast through the mouth or nose.
Therefore, since you’re always part of the duality flow, you’re mistaken if you believe you must strive to find and enter it. Fortunately, it’s easy to correct your misconception. For example, by acknowledging the duality of breathing, you feel the duality flow. Being in it is like being on a seesaw, The joy comes not from holding onto or avoiding one of up or down, nor by achieving a perfect balance between them. Instead, it comes from the adventurous interaction of opposites.
Contrasts define our experiences. That is the way of duality. For example, we can only experience ourselves as young when we are contrasted with someone older. Acknowledging this interaction of opposites, where old and young define each other, we are in the duality flow. Hence, we enjoy appearing in a world of duality until the duality flow, like a river, returns to its source: non-duality.
So, in the case of breathing, when inhaling, you delight in feeling within, and you ravish in feeling without when exhaling. This flow of in and out leads to the experience of the other polarities, constituting the duality flow. Hence, you feel uplifted by the interaction of father and son, old and young, tired and energetic, for example. That’s until the duality flow (see Duality Hack #8.8) returns to its source, non-duality, which it never left, as it is formless, thus endless.
The duality flow goes on
On the way back to what you never left, you may feel the urge to override the duality flow. So, you insist on having a singular feeling, such as anxiety, by suppressing its complementary part. In this case, you correct your mistake by perceiving your singular feeling as ‘it is what it is’. This perception is twofold, allowing for the interplay between anxiety and peace. Hence, since anxiety is not a singular feeling, it does not prevent you from being in the duality flow, so you continue on its way to non-duality.
P.S.: If a severe physical issue worries you, utilise the vitalisation coming from the duality flow to consult a healthcare professional.
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