Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Meditation for a purer mind


Meditation helps the mind to be more pure. As Buddha is supposed to have said:

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

Monday, February 27, 2012

Bigger brain with meditation


People who meditate grow bigger brains than those who don't.


Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found the first evidence that meditation can alter the physical structure of our brains. Brain scans they conducted reveal that experienced meditators boasted increased thickness in parts of the brain that deal with attention and processing sensory input.

Click HERE to read the full article.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Meditation Maintains IQ Increase Throughout Life

This information could change your life.



Research done in Transcendental Meditation (TM) shows that intelligence continues to grow/increase throughout life if you do mediation, as opposed to what we have learnt in school, that intelligence grows until adult age when it pretty much stops and then fades down towards the end of life. A quick way to reach meditative states without effort is the Xphirience tracks and YogicSound tracks.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Suffering and illusion

One thing that creates allot of unnecessary suffering is addiction. I am not talking about drug addiction, even though that would certainly make you unhappy. I am talking about the addictions that you might not be aware about. The ones that you didn't even know where influencing you in a negative way. The ones that, once gotten rid, will dissolve lots and lots of weight from your shoulders.

But to really get hold of these, to see them and cut them by the root, then for most people a "radical" new perspective is needed. It's not that it is actually radical, it is only the truth, but it is seen as radical by most.

This "new" perspective originates in the truth about the self and who you really are. Now, because most people are identified with their individual self they are identified with everything contained in a self which includes among other things:

- Personal history
- Thoughts
- Emotions
- The physical body

I am coming back the addiction thing later on so bare with me. Now ,if you really look at it. Personal history;   Let's say you are a newborn baby and nothing has happened to you yet. You exist, right? You still have no personal history at all, you are a blank sheet of paper. But you still exist. That is irrefutable. Jump ahead now in time until the present day. You realize you existed before any of your personal history. So any history written on your paper now is actually not who you are. You existed BEFORE that. Things that happen are things that happen. They are not who you ARE, they are just text on the paper. 


Now, you can see that you are not the things written on that paper, you are the one who is reading it, you are the one watching it from the outside. Anything that happens, be it thoughts, emotions etc, You are the one who is AWARE of these things, which means you are not them. Like the physical body, you are aware of it, you are not it. Even when someone "dies" they go on living in the spirit world. So they don't have physical bodies in the sense we have here. Even the brain dies so you are not even a phenomenon created by the electrical activity in there.

So however you look at something that you think is YOU, it is still just being looked at. There is the AWARENESS of it. This awareness does not identify with anything. Right? Because awareness is simply being aware of whatever it is happening. That is all it does. there is no possibility to create a separate individual identity if it is seen that awareness cannot be located into one particular thing. You can not be identified with the body because there is awareness of the body. WHATEVER you look at, AWARENESS comes before it.

So what is all this nonsense about YOU being a separate individual located in a physical body, being the owner of your thoughts, your mind, and being separate from every other person and every other thing... That is simply an illusion.

One thing that is good at keeping this illusion in place, keeping it running, is the addiction we have to the outside world. We are dependent on extracting the emotions and the energy we are addicted to from the outside world to make us feel "good" and safe. We do this by throwing out different anchor points in life and then extracting energy from them. These anchors are things like:

- Girlfriend/Boyfriend
- Job
- Money
- Politics/Religion (or rather anything that gives a sense of belonging) etc.
- Parties
- Sex

And so on... I am not saying there is anything wrong with them. What I am saying is that we use these as a means of feeling "good" about ourselves. We identify with them so that they make the feeling of self stronger so that we can endure life. And should ANYTHING go wrong with some anchor point you have, then you get depressed. You fix this by adjusting this anchor point or throwing out a new one. * Life becomes a never ending rollercoaster between feeling good and bad.

Do you want this to continue? ALL of this has it's root cause in the false identification with a separate individual self.

The one you really are, awareness, is free from suffering. Because it is not identified with it. Suffering might happen. But it does not belong to anybody since there isn't anybody. It just happens and that's it. We are all one and the same awareness/consciousness. This awareness is the ultimate freedom, bliss and peace.

- Björn Knudsen

Monday, February 20, 2012

An opinion about peace

Sometimes it strikes me how I don't really understand anything at all.

...what anything is, means, sounds like, taste like and where the one is who is supposed to be me. I'm just clueless about everything, and that also brings a great wonder. Think about a new born baby. There are no preconceived notions or judgements. Everything is instinct, automatic, without any idea about something being precisely that, instinct or automatic.

Later on in life more and more experience and information is built up so that you will be able to function in this reality. It's a necessity. But it's forgotten that all information, ideas, concepts etc are secondary and that they are not the true identity. Who where you before any words where written in the book of you? What was a color before you knew anything about it?

And then I turn on the TV and see politicians arguing about who's right and who's wrong, religious people arguing about who the true God is, and then there are holy wars, fighting, bullying and on and on it goes. People are acting like they know better than their fellow human being and that this gives them the right to act like they are superior. There are unlimited amounts of concepts, ideas and details that you can stare at until your eyeballs pop out of your head… and then people are using all these things to build some kind of synthetic identity and hence separation between human beings occur. I might be naive, but if it was the common experience among people that we are all one and the same source, that comes before any of all these secondary concepts, ideas etc....then maybe this planet would be a better place.

- Björn Knudsen

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Xphirience Testimonial

From: Inez

"What an amazing discovery this is! 
I am a Dutch woman fighting breast cancer and Xphirience helps me so much to find inner peace. 
My breathing becomes slower and my mind gets clearer. 
I also have the feeling that I am more in contact with my intuition, since I listen to the tracks. It brings me closer to me and who I really am, deep inside. Excuse me my English, but I am very enthusiastic about this product.
 When I am stressed or fearful I listen to the tracks and doesn't take long before I feel peaceful again. 


Thanks Marcus!"