– updated September 2026
The empty breath treats both spiritual and mundane experiences as nothing. Thus, they don’t seem to conceal what cannot be experienced: the formlessness of Oneness.
but to undo the belief in being definitive.
From Duality Hack #9.7 in the free eBook Alexius’ Duality Hacks.
Something is nothing
The empty breath isn’t about gaining love, health, wealth, or success, least of all to make a difference. Rather, it’s about realising that being and having something is nothing, because reality is the formlessness of Oneness. Yet, while we appear in a world of appearances, we need something, such as food and shelter, to survive (see Duality Hack #3.6).
Fortunately, the empty breath synchronises outward-facing consciousness’s world of something with inward-facing consciousness’s abstractness in a ratio that enables us to enjoy something like food, even as we recognise its ultimate emptiness.
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Since Oneness is formless and thus endless, it’s impossible to depart it. Fortunately, when we believe we’re in a world formed by time and space, the empty breath is our life-jacket.
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Images on a computer screen look real thanks to clever patterns of zeros and ones, brought about by software composed of them. Likewise, the brain, our own ‘app’, processes our experiences from nothing, generating the illusion of us as someone definitive experiencing a world of something.
But the empty breath, unprocessed by the brain, doesn’t see us as someone definitive. That’s why it’s easy to perceive our experiences of something as nothing when connected with the empty breath. Still, this doesn’t mean we ignore feasible needs – if we break a leg, we still treat it. But seeing it as nothing frees us from needless worry.
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The connection with the empty breath doesn’t give us anything. Thus we leave the frustration of something and enter the bliss of nothing.
A pencil can’t erase its own writing – it needs an eraser. Likewise, we can’t undo our belief in duality. Fortunately, the sound of the empty breath (Duality Hack #9.4) acts as an eraser, patiently erasing the belief in duality and eventually uncovering non-duality.
Many complain that digital media overwhelms them with information. Yet it’s not the quantity that makes them feel stressed – it’s their urge to organise the information to fit into their belief system. Fortunately, you don’t need to stop that or anything else to not feel stressed. If you don’t suppress stress but instead join its uncontrolled energy, it sparks a take-off into the empty breath. In its nothingness, you’re indifferent to stress.
The bliss of nothing exposes the appearance of something as nothing
The purpose of the empty breath is to reveal that what we perceive as something is nothing. Thus, something doesn’t conceal the formlessness of Oneness. It is like realising that the world in a dream is nothing, and so it does not hide that you are in bed. Of course, you could contemplate not being in a world of something. However, it often turns into a joyless debate rather than the bliss of nothing.
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Because most people perceive each event through a remix of memories they adjust whenever they recall them to emphasise themselves, their perception does not match others’ views of the same event.
This leads many to think others are wrong, so they try to correct them. The more they seem to succeed, the more their memories seem right, trapping them in the past. Luckily, the empty breath, like a mild breeze, reveals the hollowness of our memories. Hence, since they do not seem to be something, you are in the bliss of nothing.
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In the bliss of nothing, you’re never afraid of something.
As a teenager, Alexius devoted himself to the whereabouts of the empty breath every evening. Thus, he fell asleep in the bliss of nothing. But because most people cared only about the excitement of something, he felt nobody would listen if he brought up the bliss of nothing. So Alexius didn’t mention it until he began writing his Duality Hacks in 2011. In 2018, while writing Duality Duality Hack #9.1-10, he finally named the gateway to the bliss of nothing: the empty breath.
Returning to that which is One is not a matter of going anywhere. Oneness is formless, thus endless, so you never leave it. Thus, if you believe you’re in a world with more than one, all you need is to have the empty breath erase that belief. [Photo: Alexius]
How to spark a take-off into the empty breath
We feel entertained by a world of duality when we perceive our reaction to the brain’s experiences as twofold. However, if we interpret them through a philosophy that treats feelings like love as singular and separate from hate, we miss their interaction and feel not entertained, but somewhat frustrated, by a world of duality.
Fortunately, when frustration isn’t suppressed, it carries unbound energy that automatically sparks a take-off into the empty breath,and wipes our slate clean. Thus, by seeing the brain’s duality experiences as twofold, we feel entertained by all of them.
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Joining with the empty breath is as easy as going with the flow of sex. However, the latter doesn’t undo the belief in being someone unless the orgasm’s energy is used to spark a take-off into the empty breath.[Photo: Alexius]
Starting a take-off into the empty breath is no different from not preventing our body from responding naturally to sexual arousal: no conscious effort or thought is needed. However, sexual arousal reinforces the belief in being someone definitive, whereas the empty breath undoes it. This is not to say that you must avoid sex. On the contrary, if you follow its intense energy, an orgasm sparks a take-off into the empty breath when you follow its intense energy
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Connecting with the empty breath doesn’t require meditation or other techniques based on exclusion or restraint. It’s as simple as standing by our unwillingness to be nobody, because this raw unwillingness contains the spark that launches us into the empty breath.
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