Wednesday, April 21, 2021
WHAT IS SUNYA?
WHAT IS SUNYA?
With this, we are going into the formal teachings of Sunya. Right from the basics, all the way up to the advanced level. Sunya is based on the teachings in Maha Anapana Smrti. Maha means great or advanced, Anapana means breathing in and out and Smrti means to hold your mind in focus without exerting any effort. It is the spontaneous focus of our mind. This could be mistaken for the word “mindfulness” which has a completely different meaning.
Samatha is a practice that leads to a tranquil and serene state of mind. Vipasyana is the act of observing introspectively.
If you are exerting a substantial amount of effort to carry out meditation, then you must be doing it wrong. Smrti is a compressed word but when we expand the meaning, it actually means Samatha Vipasyana. Samatha is a practice that leads to a tranquil and serene state of mind. Vipasyana is the act of observing introspectively. You must never put in a great deal of effort to practice Vipasyana. It is used to calming down your mind. The more effort you put into it, the more confused your mind gets and this completely beats the chief principle of Vipasyana.
Unfortunately, due to the erroneous interpretation of these words, many meditation schools practice a stern and rigorous method which includes sitting with your legs crossed for hours together. They force students to spend a great deal of time in meditation. Due to the rigidity in their training, many practitioners tend to be filled with emotions and do not have a calm state of mind. In basic Samatha Vipasyana or BSV, we focus on harmonizing our mind and body.
This is the real form of yoga. After synchronizing your mind and body, you need to do your duty and interact with the surrounding environment. That is called Maha Samatha Vipasyana or MSV. By environment, we mean anything outside your mind and body. The right practice of Sunya does not involve any excessive effort in any practice.
Practicing Sunya is like tuning a guitar. If you tune it too hard, the string may break. But if the string is too loose, you cannot play music. Meditation is not to train you to go sleep but on the contrary, it is to train you to stay awake. Therefore, the right amount of effort is crucial and pivotal. So, what is the right effort in Sunya training? Initially we ask our students to reverse count from 99 to 0. One count for every breath they take. This takes around 12 to 15 minutes. For those who cannot do it, we ask them to reduce the count to 30 and to reverse count from 29 to 0.
Many people ask me what the best time is to practice Sunya. Any time of the day that you feel is okay to dedicate to Sunya is the best time. You should avoid doing it before or after a shower, before or after a heavy meal and before or after a heavy exercise session. During Sunya, the pores on our skin open up to breathe in and out and to detox waste. The most important lesson and advice that I will give you today is to not put too much effort while practicing Sunya. Another common question I get is if a woman on her period could practice Sunya. The answer is definitely yes as Sunya does no harm to the body or to the menstrual cycle.
As claimed by modern-day gurus, when you detach yourself from disturbances in the mind, miraculous abilities do occur with the power that your mind releases. But these “miraculous abilities” are not possible in real life. Sunya’s only aim is to attain peace and prosperity. How far can you go if you practice Sunya regularly? According to Buddha, you can go very far. In this life, you can achieve the state of Arhant, meaning, a person who is free and can enter and leave this world as per his wish.
Achieving peace of mind and showing love to your fellow beings is what Sunya stands for. Words like Samatha Vipasyana have been derived from Sanskrit, but you do not need to learn the language. The peace and serenity that we obtain cannot be described by any language.
- DATUK DR. LIM SIOW JIN
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Niel Gustavo Arroe Aguirre Success Story
“Fighting the current seems unlikely when resources are scarce. One can give up in the search for success if obstacles appear in each step taken, as if life does not want you to reach the goal.”
Niel Gustavo Arroe Aguirre, since young age, was clear about money, his dreams and how to achieve them, which is by working hard. However, the way to achieve his goals and enjoy them has made him different from the rest of people in the world. With DXN, Niel understood that this difference was fine, that it was for those who see success quickly in their lives, those who want to fulfill their dreams; the path of winners, with a world renowned and transparent company, backed by 28 years of experience and more than ten million distributors worldwide.
Niel Arroe was persevered for almost eleven years as a pioneer of DXN in Peru, which has earned him the highest rank in DXN, the Crown Ambassador. That perseverance shaped him since young age. He desired to undertake his native Andamarca, Huancayo, however, he never received any type of guidance to start or how to generate income. He learned by helping his cousin to sell jellies, receiving some candies as payment, but it was not enough, so he began to help in the preparation of jellies to learn how to make them himself, to sell them and generate income. He understood the power of the sales force, and asking other children of the village to help him sell his jellies in exchange for some candy.
From a humble origin, a boy who liked to play with some stones and pretend that it were cars and imagine that the soil was the road, the limitation that he had has shaped his childhood and fueled his desire to prosper.
He longed to go further and hope to travel the world. However, his mother’s wish is for him to stay in her village, as he was her only child. His future would continue to be in Andamarca, where he could only become a teacher or a policeman, and keep his family's lands. At the age of twelve, he moved to Tingo María with his uncles, looking for a better future. However, the reality that he found was similar, he had to help milk the cows, distribute milk throughout the town and group the calves. His motivation to continue training as a successful and good man, led him to enlist in the Peru Army until he finished his military career. After that, he continues his life journey in the city of Huánuco to study Law. However, he knew that he was only accumulating degrees to prove he was the best in his family. He realized that studying is good generally, but it is not going to give him the financial freedom he longed for. He knew there must be other opportunity to do business and earn money, so he began to investigate.
His desire for economic freedom led him to try various trades. One of them was being the sales person of imported cars in Pucallpa. While his income was significant, it was a very self-sacrificing and absorbing job. He began to search for smart ways to earn money. It was later that he became acquainted with network marketing.
He was skeptical of the business system. "I saw so many companies collapsed in my country and in other countries." After a meeting where he was presented with a business book "The Money Flow Quadrant", he knew that he must follow the line of a business owner, who uses "a system that is already approved and that works using the leverage of other people”.
Before DXN, he joined around 20 companies, where he learned that several of these companies were either pyramid businesses which require considerable amounts of investment money, or systems that were difficult to achieve. The biggest problem with all of them was that after a while, they collapsed and finally disappeared. Money comes and goes fast, with no long-term benefit.
After many unsuccessful experiences, he looked for a more secure, proper and honest company. In 2009 she met DXN through Rafael Díaz, Miluska Alvarado, Alina Tavara and Maria Lourdes Paja. After researching about DXN, he knew that the company is legitimate, honest, and comprehensive. It has wonderful products, and he thought “this company has to be in Peru”. Thus, that's the beginning of the story and the relationship between Niel and DXN.
The fact that DXN is in number 15 of the best 100 Direct Sales Companies, established in more than 185 countries, has international certifications for its products has given it the prestige of world quality.
DXN began its operations in Peru; officially, on January 18, 2010 as DXN International Peru S.A.C. Niel Arroe and his wife Lisbeth Souza, Rafael Díaz, Alina Tavara, Lourdes Paja and many more Peruvian leaders were the pioneers and founders in bringing the company and the products of this Asian company to the South American country. Before the company was registered in the country, they toured the entire coast, highlands and jungle to introduce DXN's products, delicious and healthy with Ganoderma. The financial income gave Niel motivation, even though the amount was not substantial at that time. His patience paid off for him and DXN in Peru. As DXN Peru consistently held the No. 1 leader in sales worldwide for more than 5 years.
Now, his children are following his footsteps in doing the business. Any family will believe you if you show them results. This is because DXN's business is inheritable. The benefit of DXN in your life is that it’s not a selfish business. Instead, it is a business that you can share, in which you make long lasting friendships and integrate with the family.
"With DXN I am fulfilling my dreams." During his childhood, he used to play with stones, as if they were cars. Those stone cars have now been replaced by real cars. "Now, I have more than 30 cars, as my dream was to have ALL the cars that I like. The ones that I didn't have as a child." In addition, “I am building the house of my dreams, where I have been able to build a pool on the sixth floor, with a panoramic view of a beautiful park. I am also traveling the world. I have been to Dominican Republic, Cuba, Cancun, Dubai, USA, Spain, Mexico and even to Malaysia, where the DXN plantations are. DXN has fulfilled my expectations and resolved my doubts about how to do this network marketing business”. He's excited for the people who trusted him when he offered the project to them, as they now also see the results.
Today, he continues to work and strive with DXN to continue fulfilling more dreams, of his and other leaders’ who follow the path to financial freedom.
“In our organizations, there are many people with dreams, people who trust one. Marketing networks are of leadership. One has to teach by example and all the company information has to be legitimate, honest and transparent towards distributors. I have achieved my great dream of being a Crown Ambassador and I will continue to work hard to help others to reach their goals as well”. “At DXN, I found a perfect, legitimate and upright company. And by being an independent distributor of this company, I was able to fulfill my dreams.”
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