Yoga Stack — README
This stack treats Yoga as a discipline of integration, not a belief system, lifestyle identity, or collection of spiritual aesthetics.
Yoga here means yoking: aligning perception, attention, and action so experience is no longer fragmented.
This is a practical ontology, not a devotional one.
What This Stack Is
- A framework for understanding union without collapse
- A set of lenses for seeing how suffering arises and dissolves
- A discipline concerned with how reality is engaged, not what one believes
- A place for models that help integrate body, mind, world, and duty
Yoga is approached structurally, operationally, and honestly.
Core Primitives
This stack is built on a small number of native yogic primitives.
Gunas — Qualities of Nature
Describe how reality moves and expresses itself.
- Sattva — clarity, balance, transparency
- Rajas — activity, turbulence, propulsion
- Tamas — inertia, density, resistance
The gunas explain motion, not morality.
Kleshas — Sources of Suffering
Describe distortions of perception that bind experience.
- Avidya — mis-seeing
- Asmita — mis-identification
- Raga / Dvesha — grasping and aversion
- Abhinivesha — clinging to continuation
The kleshas explain why suffering persists, even amid insight.
Maya — World as Appearance
Maya names the coherent, persuasive structure through which reality appears.
It is not falsehood, but interface. Illusion that persists under attention.
Dharma — Right Action
Dharma answers: What is mine to do here?
It is contextual, situational, and inseparable from role and responsibility.
Yoga — Integration
Yoga is not escape from the world, but skillful relation within it.
Integration without denial. Union without erasure.
What This Stack Is Not
- Not a replacement for traditional study
- Not a self-help system
- Not a wellness brand
- Not a metaphysical claim about ultimate reality
This stack borrows carefully, defines terms precisely, and avoids flattening traditions into vibes.
Use Guidelines
- Glossary terms define lenses; they are not debated elsewhere
- Stack pages contain authored synthesis, not quote collections
- Quotes are supporting material, never the authority
- Models may come from outside Yoga if they clarify integration
Authority flows from practice → understanding → articulation.
Orientation
Yoga does not ask:
What should I believe?
It asks:
Where am I fragmented?
What am I identifying with?
What would integration require here?
This stack exists to support those questions — patiently, rigorously, and without illusion.