Just Yoga

Just Yoga


When I first started teaching yoga, many students, regardless whether they've done yoga before or not, would always ask me, "What yoga do you teach?"

My reply - "Yoga. Just yoga."

If you think about it, it's really just yoga.

Whatever name you call it -

Power yoga, Iyengar yoga, Hatha yoga, Bikram yoga, Hot yoga, yoga yoga, it's still yoga.


Take the example of green tea.

Pokka, Yeo's, Heaven and Earth .........

It's still green tea : water with tea leaves.

Green tea is green tea, no matter what name or brand you call it.


Or, ice-cream.

Magnolia ice-cream, King's ice-cream, Ben and Jerry's ice-cream, Swensen's ice-cream, Anderson's ice-cream .........

It's still ice cream.


A simple thing made complicated by the complicated egoistic minds of some humans who want to 'stand out' in the crowd, distinct themselves from others, separate themselves from the rest.

In Reality, names, labels, grades etc are things conjure up by egoistic people to fool us. (Read 'Good or Bad' - http://maitre-light.blogspot.com/2007/04/good-or-bad.html)

And we are foolish, ignorant, confused and blinded enough to be conditioned, brainwashed and hoodwinked by them.

We don't realised we have been taken advantage of, made use of.


Likewise with meditation.

Jhana meditation, Vipassana meditation, Samatha meditation, Anapanasati, Sati-patthana, Transcendental meditation, Visualisation meditation, Relaxation meditation, Chan meditation, Insight meditation, etc etc etc.

To me, it's still just meditation.

There's only just meditation.

Whatever names, labels you give it.

It's still just meditation.

You can call, give whatever names/labels you want,

But to me,

It is what it is -

Me-di-ta-tion.




"What's in a name?

Nothing."



"Because there's always something,

And we always surround ourselves with something,

We do not know what it is when there's Nothing."




"Meditation is UNconditional."



"Meditation is releasing, giving (up), letting go, freeing, contentment, acceptance and stopping."