mind yoga in the wash

we are all the daily practices of a mind yoga,

based on political, legal, religious, 

and social tensions of existence as exercise.

stretch and flex with ease would be the goal,

as the awareness and the reward.

yet mind yoga can become

opinions, conclusions, judgments, 

and positions held, 

that do not yoga the mind.

postured as addicted to giving, 

in the artfulness of self in disguise.

mind yoga has structure 

before the birth of emotional grace.

it has evidence 

before the presence of essence embraced.

mind yoga learns how to swim on the surface

but still with breath as its deliverance.

mind yoga forms of itself

but then has a self as its goal,

honoring premises, 

it will eventually want to vastly cross.

what will it take a mind to discover and realize,

we are the water we swim in 

yet in a fearing manner of approach.

not wanting to drown

but dream-entry in earnestness, 

as a possibility of our passage-means.

mind elegance will always be the swim-ware

and never the being within it.

being mostly of water yet fear-based,

when, in water, is our cultivated approach.

the mind has to somehow learn to swim

in an emotional ocean of being,

where the wisdom of water 

is not reducible to the land-work of understood.

mind-work, at best, is all hands on deck!

mind-yoga seems to honor that premise

with urgency of thought,

when understanding becomes a fear-based premise.

maybe thought has to die, to dive, to realize,

that which lives beyond what fear dignifies.

mind yoga has to have a mat made of emotional sea,

evolve postures of liquidity,

immerse in a language beyond 

what selfdom can hear and speak.

mind-work is but formidable foam

that will, of its own accord,

burst in a timely manner.

and then the mind will start 

to eventually sea . . .