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There are no true dualities in nature,
only differing expressions of one underlying reality.
What appears as opposition
is the shifting balance
between expressed and unexpressed states,
each giving rise to the other
within the unified flow of existence.

Vethun teaches that all phenomena emerge through contrast, yet are never truly separate. Light and shadow, expansion and contraction, the active and the still are complementary states arising from the same source. They remain in continual exchange, alternating emphasis within the unfolding rhythm of the Cosmos.

Dualities are illusions of perception; nothing is truly divided. What is expressed today may be unexpressed tomorrow; what recedes will rise again. This ongoing movement sustains the living current of reality. All things arise from the same underlying field, which recognizes differentiation within unity rather than separation.

Magnetism is the perfect example of this truth. The two polar ends of a magnet are not fixed in position; if you put two magnets with the same pole too close together, one of the magnets will reverse the direction of its polarity. If you split a magnet in half, you do not get two different poles, but two smaller magnets. Polarity is a condition of environmental pressures, therefore, and not a fixed condition.

Vethun describes transmutability and the hidden relationships behind what appears to be different. Ice and steam are two different modes of the same underlying medium; so too are male and female, expansion and contraction, and creation and destruction.

Vethun asks us to shed rigid self-constructs and see the fluidity in our nature. We contain all aspects latent within us, although a lifetime of a rigid self-narrative may lead one to believe otherwise. A meditative state, where stillness meets inner alignment, can reveal the truth. Beneath outward expressions of certain conditions lies an all-encompassing center.
A person might find themselves torn between ambition and peace, or desire and restraint. Vethun shows us that any polarity, whether we deem it qualitatively “good” or “bad,” is an extension from a balanced, neutral origin.

Vethun trains the mind to look past the surface argument and locate the deeper need, fear, value, or wound that both sides are responding to. Two people can be reaching for safety through different strategies. Two beliefs can be protecting the same longing through different means. The apparent divide is often a misunderstanding of a single tension moving through different forms.

Embrace the transience of any single expression for its impermanence. If we could experience joy all the time, it would become a baseline, and it would lose all meaning. The intensity of any moment is what defines it; its fleeting presence makes it valuable. Whether it is a pleasant moment that fulfills us or a painful moment that carves us, we can be grateful that it, too, shall pass. Peace is in the stillness in between expressions, where nothing is experienced, and all is in perfect unity.

Do you struggle with opposition? Choosing one side over another increases division. Vethun asks us to see the common threads that both parties are chasing.

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