29/01/2026
The practice of the Yoga of the Mahamudra is based on three fundamental principles.
1) do nothing with the body, but relax;
2) empty the mind, let the mind cling to nothing;
3) become like a hollow bamboo;
These three teachings are like coordinates referring respectively to body, mind and breath.
The first principle is also called the vertical axis, the humans have found a higher state of consciousness by growing vertically tall.
The second teaching refers to the horizontal axis of the mind coming together with vertical axis.
The thirds concept refers to the body as a hollow bamboo which allows us to explore the breaths permeating the body, encountering no obstacle. Each breath can be felt throughout the body just as if this body was hollow and helps us develop the connection with the realm of “feeling sensations”.
Our human mind is engaged with either “doing/thinking” or with “sensing/feeling”.
The doing aspect of the mind abducts us from the present moment, while in sensing and feeling there is the opportunity to just Be and land with our full awareness in the present moment.
All this has changed my life from an existence of “doing to achieve” to an existence of “surrendering to the present” moment and its unique expression of life.
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