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.
हेयं दुःखमनागतम्
heyaṁ duḥkham anāgatam
Suffering that has not yet come can be avoided.
Yoga Sutras 2.16 · verse 67 of 196
Unfolding the thread
One of the most hopeful lines in the Sutras. Past pain can't be undone, and present pain has to be lived through. But future pain, much of it, can be prevented. That's where practice puts its effort: not regret, not endurance, but prevention.
Try today
Name one small thing you can do today that will save your future self some pain. Then do it.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Action should be taken before a thing has made its appearance; order should be secured before disorder has begun.”
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