🌿 On the Mat, In the Mind: A Journey Beyond Separation
When we step into Asana practice, we often begin with the body: different shapes, breath, sensations. In Meditation, we often turn inward toward the mind: thoughts, awareness, silence. Yet both are doors leading to the same truth: the dissolving of separation between “I” and the rest.
Advaita-Vedanta and Buddhism – awakening paths
In Advaita Vedānta, the teaching is “Tat Tvam Asi”, You are That. The Self is not limited to body or mind; it is pure awareness, the unchanging witness to all experience. Every posture held with full presence becomes a mirror, reflecting this truth back to us.
In Buddhist practice, we meet the teaching of anattā, no fixed self. By observing sensations in the body during Asana, and thoughts in meditation, we see their impermanence. We notice that what we call “me” is a flowing process, not a static thing.
On the mat, as muscles lengthen and breath deepens, the illusion of a separate self begins to soften. In stillness, as thoughts rise and fade, the idea of “I” as thinker loosens. Both paths point to a freedom that does not belong to anyone — it simply is.
When the body is steady and the mind is quiet, Asana becomes Meditation and Meditation becomes Asana. In that moment, we are not “doing yoga” or “practicing Buddhism” — we are simply resting in what has always been here: the boundless, luminous awareness that is not separate from life itself.
How beautiful is it? I bow to the practice, I bow to the teachings left by enlightened people of the past. I bow to my Masters, I bow to devotion.
When I do that, all that is left is Love. I feel I AM LOVE.
Sasy