Extreme Yoga

 You probably believe that

 This is about physical postures

 Held for hours by

 Double jointed contortionists

 Sitting on the beach at dawn

Chanting mantrams for liberation 

From the attachment to samsara

 To drop the mortal coil at last

 It really would be incredible

 To spend early winter at the

 Kumbha Mela spiritual festival

 in Allahabad, India for a month

 And then go to Varanasi March 10th

 For Shivaratri with 70 million pilgrims

 And then, and then, and then in Pondy

 Relax at Auroville on the Bay of Bengal

 Right where you are this moment

 Observe your mind thinking

 Slow down the rate of speed

 To a crawl and watch every word

 Direct your gaze to where

 The words are formed and then

 Go even further back to discover

 The electrical impulse

 Just before that is the still point

 From which you may live the

 Rest of your life starting now

 Unencumbered by time and space

 That's the secret, okay?

 This is extreme yoga

 Now that you are enlightened,

 What are you going to do?

 Craig Louis Stehr

 14.XI.'12