Chaos ignites a take-off into ‘the empty breath’

June 5, 2016 by

Updated July 14, 2023

That which is One can be compared to a movie running so fast that no frames can be seen. In this context, a world where there seems to be more than one is the same film slowed down to the extent that it appears to consist of many different frames. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Contrary to common belief, oneness is not stillness but loudness. However, it is impossible to hear the noise of its extreme speed because it requires more than one. You could also compare oneness to an analogue movie played so fast that its frames cannot be seen or heard. In the context of this metaphor, a world where there seems to be more than one is a slowed-down version consisting of frames divided by time and space. Read more about that here.

Therefore, since it is not quietness but quickness that is the bedrock of oneness, you need to accelerate the slowed-down movie of oneness if you want to return to oneness. Hence Duality hack #9 In the bliss of nothing with the empty breath is not about slowing down thoughts or stopping them but going with their uncontrolled speed to ignite a take-off into the empty breath.

It syncs the speedy thoughts in the low-frequency world of the outward-facing senses with the high-frequency world of the inward-facing senses, so they can be further accelerated without you panicking when they move so fast that there is no time to hold onto them to establish you as someone in a world where there seems to be more than one.

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When people tell you to slow down and relax via mindfulness, for example, they sabotage the fastest way to take it easy, namely, not to prevent thoughts and feelings from setting off in all directions, thus igniting a take-off into the empty breath and its bliss of nothing.

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If you do not project your feelings onto others but keep them in yourself, they build up the energy to ignite a take-off into the empty breath.

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Not interfering with the speed of thoughts and feelings, they speed up and ignite a take-off into the empty breath that syncs the worlds of the outward and inward-facing senses. Therefore, since everything that seems specific in the low-frequency world of the outward-facing senses is absorbed by the abstractness of the high-frequency world of the inward-facing senses, it is not felt as something definitive. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Please be aware that the explanations in these notes are as absurd as any other explanation because it requires more than one to explain something, and there is no more than that which is One since it is formless, thus endless. That said, since believing in a world where there seems to be more than one is foolish, you need crazy solutions.

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Duality hack #9 In the bliss of nothing with the empty breath is about unlearning your conditioned ways of pacifying yourself through meditation and television, for example, and instead, stepping into the full uncontrolled speed of thoughts and emotions to ignite a take-off into the empty breath. It wipes your slate clean, so when you return to the consciousness of being someone, it is as nobody pretending to be somebody. Read more about pretending in Duality Hack #2 Pretending to be twofold undoes duality.

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You do not have to do something particular, like sitting in specific postures, to take-off into the empty breath. Instead, whether active or inactive, you acknowledge the present chaos of thoughts and feelings without trying to shape them by a specific belief system, so their unbound energy can ignite a take-off to the empty breath. 

If you have already organised the chaos of thoughts and feelings per a specific belief system, there is no need to go back into chaos to ignite a take-off into the empty breath. Instead, you acknowledge your suppression by being only that. Since that leaves nothing to define you as suppressed, you are not something specific. Hence the empty breath can enter.

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When trying to control, change or stop thoughts and feelings, they are slowed down. Thus they do not have the speed needed to ignite a take-off into the empty breath, where they lose their apparent meaning, thus their supposed power to make you appear as someone.

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Since any construction of thoughts can be used to ignite a take-off into the empty breath, and since a world where there seems to be more than one is a construction of thoughts, everything in it can be used to ignite a take-off into the empty breath. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Like most people, you probably have systemised thoughts and feelings into an image of yourself as if you are one of the good ones. However, thoughts and feelings do not support this mental image when asleep. So in dreams, you are both good and bad.

If that seems frightening, you probably solve it when you wake up by perceiving all negativity in the dream as caused by others. But suppose you feel imprisoned by the system you have set up to appear solely good. In that case, you acknowledge the ugly parts of the dream as yours, so their unedited energy can ignite a take-off into the empty breath. It syncs the world experienced by the outward-facing senses with the world of the inward-facing senses in which everything moves so fast and unorganised that there is no differentiation between good and bad, thus no dilemma.

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When you avoid a feeling, it appears as something, whereas acknowledging it is seen as nothing. Thus you discover the absence of something is blissful.

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Not caring about the result, anything you do or say can ignite a take-off into the empty breath. For example, if you are wholly dedicated to someone or something and stick to it, although it is unattainable, the intense energy builds up and ignites a take-off into the empty breath.

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Since no specific language has been established between humans and cats for sharing love, trying to do that often ignites a take-off into the empty breath.

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What you believe in being and seeing is nothing but empty space. Thus not being and seeing something specific is a blissful revelation of emptiness. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

Taking deep breaths, or in any other way manipulating the breath, is not beneficial for connecting with the empty breath because doing so enhances the belief in being in charge. The same applies to concentrating on being centred, balanced, or focused.

But the willingness not to hold back thoughts connects you with the empty breath because their uncontrolled energy ignites a take-off into it, regardless of your appearance.

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The more you limit yourself to being definitive, the more you feel like cracking. To prevent it, you improve your definition until you feel so constrained that you burst into anger or stop giving a shit about holding yourself together. Hence the uncontrolled energy of the suppressed thoughts and feelings ignites a take-off into the empty breath. However, it does not help you escape your cage but the belief that you are in it.

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When you do not define what is going on to remain in the fantasy of being unique, unconfined thoughts or feelings repeatedly, shoot off to ignite a take-off into the empty breath.

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If the present stream of thoughts or feelings is not manipulated or suppressed, its natural energy ignites a take-off into the empty breath. You can make up stories of love or anything else in its presence without leaving the empty breath because it sees the world where you believe in being as a blank computer screen. So although the stories you fabricate seem to disclose something on the screen, they do not change it.

In other words, it does not matter how you perceive the experiences produced by the brain when you are with the empty breath. You do not need the happiness from being in sync with the brain. You are in the bliss of nothing until you define it as something.

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If something seems to bother you, use the frustration to ignite a take-off into the empty breath to see what you judge as something terrible is nothing. See Take-offs into the empty breath.

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The peace you seek via mindfulness, quiet music, and whatnot does not have the energy to ignite a take-off into the empty breath. Actually, it has so little energy that you probably fall asleep and mistake heaven for being in dreams. Photo © Alexius Jorgensen.

The connection with the empty breath may feel like having a transparent body shivering with joy. The connection never results in a physical sensation because the empty breath is nothing. Read more about that in the paragraph THE TRANSPARENT SOUND OF THE EMPTY BREATH in the article What does the empty breath feel like?

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We like to perceive the experiences created by the brain as real because that confirms we are real and not a fantasy of the brain. In other words, the desire to be somebody disguises that we are nothing, rendered into something by the brain to hide its nothingness.

Since it has taken the brain one second to fabricate the experience of someone reading this now, and the experience is made from nothing, there was not something one second ago. And since that is where the empty breath resides, you connect with it by not perceiving your present experience as something, thus going back one second to the nothingness unprocessed by the brain.

Should you wonder who has set this fiction in motion or is wondering about it, the answer is nobody because there is nobody in empty space – like there is nobody in a dream and not somebody making it. Nor is the dream inside the one appearing to experience it because it consists of nothing.

To make long short, what and where you believe in being is a construction of thoughts that, just like a mirage, is experienced to be something until you take a closer look and see it is nothing. That is the insight you get with the empty breath because it sees what it is itself, namely, nothing.

Unfortunately, it may seem as the empty breath is something when you read the description in the following article, What does the empty breath feel like. So please remember it is not defined by time and space, and thus not something specific in a particular location one can feel precisely (see the paragraph The transparent sound of the empty breath in the following article What does the empty breath feel like?).

Also, be aware that the description of the empty breath in the following article is written by one who is to be compared to the Enlightenment of that which is One. So just like the concepts of the world in a computer game are accepted but not believed real, the experiences of a tangible world in empty space is acknowledged but not perceived as substantial because there is nothing else than the formlessness of oneness.

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The graphic, which is grabbed from the web, has been manipulated by Alexius.

In What does the empty breath feel like? you can read more about the circles in this image, which graphically illustrates a few of the non-definitive circles you can surf in the empty breath when connected with it.

But they are not in a world outside of you as in this image, which rather reflects the idea the special self has of the empty breath, namely that it is something it can control, thus exploit. Read more about the special self here.

But no matter what you believe in doing, you are wrong because that which is One is formless, thus endless, and it takes more than one to do anything. Of course, this also applies to the empty breath, but since it does not believe in doing something or intends to take you somewhere, it is your way back to the formlessness of oneness.

That does not mean it will help you realise oneness. That is impossible since it takes more than to discover something. But when every single memory of more than one turns into nothing, which occurs when you have been in a state of not-knowing after 20 minutes, 45 at most (read more about that here), there does not appear to be something hiding there never was or will be more than that which is One.

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We usually learn something by replicating someone. For example, that is how we learned to walk and talk. However, connecting with the empty breath is not about learning but unlearning. Hence the purpose of the articles in Duality hack #9 In the bliss of nothing with the empty breath is not to learn something but to unlearn everything you believe in knowing.

Therefore, how Alexius experiences the empty breath, as described in the following article What does the empty breath feel like? is not meant to be learned and used to feel the empty breath yourself but to give you an idea of what it can be like to be an empty vessel for it. When you are that, your experience may differ from Alexius’ – like the same cup of tea often is experienced in different ways.

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Read Alexius’ Enlightened Non-Teachings until you feel so empty that a take-off into the empty breath automatically is ignited – or you are so tired of reading that you forget to control yourself, and uncontrolled energy spontaneously ignites a take-off into the empty breath.

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Filed Under: Empty Breath, Modern-Day Spirituality
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