First Light
How First Light worksTuesday 27 October·
- Sunrise
- 07:55
- Quiet hour
- 06:19–07:07
- Brahma Muhurta
- Moon
- Waning gibbous
- Next full moon: Tue 24 Nov
Autumn
The quiet hour (Brahma Muhurta) is the traditional time for practice, just before sunrise.
स्वप्ननिद्राज्ञानालम्बनं वा
svapna-nidrā-jñānālambanaṁ vā
Or by resting on what is known in dreams and in sleep.
Yoga Sutras 1.38 · verse 38 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Even the night can teach. Some dreams leave a feeling of peace or insight you can bring into the day; deep sleep shows you, every night, a state with no worries at all. Patanjali suggests these, too, can be objects of meditation. They remind you that the anxious waking mind isn't the only one you have.
Try today
When you wake tomorrow, lie still for a minute before moving and notice the calm you've just come from.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Those who dream of the banquet, wake to lamentation and sorrow. Those who dream of lamentation and sorrow wake to join the hunt. While they dream, they do not know that they dream.”
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