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.
प्रमाणविपर्ययविकल्पनिद्रास्मृतयः
pramāṇa-viparyaya-vikalpa-nidrā-smṛtayaḥ
They are: right knowing, mistaken knowing, imagination, sleep, and memory.
Yoga Sutras 1.6 · verse 6 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Here is the whole map of the mind in five words. Everything you've thought today fits somewhere on it: something you saw clearly, something you got wrong, something you imagined, the blankness of sleep, or something you remembered. The next five verses take them one at a time. For now, simply notice that even memory and sleep count as movements of the mind.
Try today
Catch three thoughts today and give each one its label: seeing, mistaking, imagining, remembering.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“And I come to the fields and spacious palaces of my memory, where are the treasures of innumerable images, brought into it from things of all sorts perceived by the senses.”
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