Yes! There is a natural rhythm to this. Yet in psychological contraction, another rhythm is superimposed on naturalness which is often non-organic and based on social conditioning.
There is a difference between natural duality and artificial, psychological duality formed out of fear, shock, grasping, and aversion. When we move with natural duality or polarity, we find balance and the support of centering. Where we are caught in psychological duality, which is often based on the judgemental mind, we tend to spiral in loops of suffering and to propagate more suffering. For example, we reject the pain of rejection, which adds to the pain of rejection, so we reject still more.
Another noticeable difference between natural duality (or polarity) and artificial duality is that the first always involved conflict. It’s a war between the man and the woman, the giver and the taker, the winner and the loser. It’s all framed mentally within beliefs based on mutually exclusive opposites. Here we are talking about the abuse of mind – where we have become addicted to a state of conditioning based of survival. Some have called it the psychology of endless war. We call it the software of suffering.
To come back to your question: could the incoming tide of the ocean ever be in competition with the outgoing tide? The very breaking of a wave depends on pure synchronicity of outflow and inflow. Without both, neither can appear.
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