If you wish to know [I]who[/I] you are,
simply acknowledge [I]that[/I] you are…
Repeatedly make this acknowledgment
with effortless persistence.
This alone is enough to realize
the flawless nature of your existence.
Who are YOU?
My teacher used to ask the question during group Dharma teachings…
then he’d smile widely and sit in silence.
…that’s [I]Dzogchen[/I], my friend; (Ati Yoga) 
Best with Blessings,
Nancy
Thanks for sharing with me the names of traditions that look similar to what I share. I once read a pamflet of dzogchen but when looking for it a year later I forgot the exact name of this zen and did not find it.
Ati yoga is a new term for me. Thank you :).
Love,
Bentinho.
Dear Bentinho,
Hello my friend…Big Love to you!
[I]Dzogchen[/I] is a Tibetan word; [I]Ati Yoga[/I], Sanskrit.
Ati Yoga is the ninth [I]yana[/I] (vehicle) of the
nine yanas of Vajrayana Buddhism.
Dzogchen translates as The Great Completion…therefore, Ati Yoga
is the highest yogic teaching for Tibetan Buddhists.
May I share my teachers beautiful site with you…
www.padmasambhava.org
Enjoy! LaGyalo!
Nancy
Thanks yet again!
Warm website :).
Love,
Bentinho.
You are not - Beyond the three veils of Consciousness by Stepehn H Wolinsky, makes an interesting read.
Hey Pandara, good to hear you.
Do you happen to know what are the three veils according to him?
Love and thanks for sharing!
B.
Hi Benthino,
I am busy reading the book so I can give them and explain the first two, still have to get to the third one:
[B]1. Veil of the Body[/B] - The writer explores from a Western psychology pov how the body appears to be the compacted consciousness we imagine it to be. How the perceiver “I” imagines [I]it is[/I] and how at fundamental level YOU ARE NOT. Eventually everything is only a description of [I]what is[/I] which is [B]not[/B] what is. In other words whatever we might say something is, it is not.
[B]2. Veil of Sipituality[/B] - This chapter writes from the context of the eastern philosophies that there are some kind of promise of liberation or realisation. However, he goes on to explain and proof how this perceived liberation is only an [I]assumption[/I], which entraps us to belief in the assumption. The writer explains that this I AM of the east who we are taught to seek, is only an assumption and not based on any truth. In truth the “I” is merely an outcome of a chemical reaction, a coming together of fluids…
[B]3. The veil of Enlightenment[/B] - Not here yet, but what I have read here and there is that in this section the writer shatters the illusions of the “awarer”, the veils of consciousness, expansion/contraction, the spanda and even the concept of beyond.
Does it fit in with anything you have been studying so far?
Hi Pandara,
Thanks for the suggestion; I haven’t read that one.
It’s lovely how threads morph…isn’t it?
Best with Blessings,
Nancy
Thank Pandora, sounds like a good book to me.
Does it fit in with anything you have been studying so far?
Not so much exactly with what I have studied, except perhaps it looks a bit like Krishnamurti and some advaita vedanta and apparently dzogchen in its sense of directness and regarding everything as being Not. But what you told me so far does match up with my experience and vision of the veils surrounding every day life as well as spirituality and enlightenment. In fact, I was planning a year or so back, to write a book that would give people a sword, so to say, which they could use to cut through all spiritual misconceptions. His intention sounds similar.
Have good read! And remember: the you who is both reading and remembering, is NOT!
Love,
B.
Dear Bentinho,
You mentioned wanting to write a book using
"a sword" to cut through spiritual misconceptions…
I am in my office right now gazing at a large thangka painting of Manjushri,
the Buddha of Wisdom, with sword in his right hand! How lovely the synchronicity…
Have confidence…write! [I]Emaho![/I]
In Dzogchen, we use a preliminary practice called [I]kadag(k) trekcho (kadag khregs chod)[/I], "cutting through rigidity"
or sometimes translated as “cutting thoroughly right this moment”…what is cut? dualities and concepts.
[I]Kadag[/I] means pure. This practice is done 24/7…as is all Dzogchen practices…on and [I]off[/I] the cushion, so to speak.
My teacher (for the past 20 years) is His Eminence, Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, one of the few
Masters of Dzogchen left on this planet from Tibet; all of his many Dzogchen books are available
through Snow Lion Publications. If I may ever be of service (obviously I love sharing Dharma)
please feel free to send a personal message.
[I]Tashi Delegs![/I] (best wishes in Tibetan),
Nancy
PS…if you resonate to Manjushri…the mantra is:
… OM A RA PA TSA NA DHI …
Note: Of course it is important to receive the traditional [I]wang[/I] (empowerment, permission) for doing this practice by a qualified teacher.
[quote=aka360Yogini;24151]Hi Pandara,
Thanks for the suggestion; I haven’t read that one.
It’s lovely how threads morph…isn’t it?
Best with Blessings,
Nancy[/quote]
Hi Nancy,
It is a fascinating read for me and one that I can recommend. It is not an easy read, but it has helped me to get clarity on many concepts/ideas which I hold in my life as my own truth. 
If you have read it one day, I would love to hear your views on it.
PS. thanks for the mantra of Manjushri, it was a mantra which I had to repeat at instruction of my teacher for months as part of my sadhana, basically reapeating it all the time while I was awake and even when I woke up in the middle of the night I would repeat it. I hold this mantra very dear to my heart.
[quote=Bentinho Massaro;24159]Have good read! And remember: the you who is both reading and remembering, is NOT! Love,
B.[/quote]
Of course not…
;)we are all connected interdependently…as islands under the sea