We'll continue reading from Tias Little's "The Practice is the Path" (2020), but we've made it to Chapter 2:
While we follow the way of those who have gone before us, our steps on the path are initiatory, always new. It is not that we are trying to replicate the walk of the Buddha, the guru, the guide. In the yoga room we are not trying to make a carbon copy of the posture the teacher is demonstrating. On the mat today, our agenda is not to re-create the same posture we did yesterday. A wholehearted commitment to being on the path requires a willingness to tread in a way that is always and astonishingly new.