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.
द्रष्टृदृश्ययोः संयोगो हेयहेतुः
draṣṭṛ-dṛśyayoḥ saṁyogo heya-hetuḥ
The cause of that avoidable suffering is the confusion of the seer with the seen.
Yoga Sutras 2.17 · verse 68 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Where does preventable suffering come from? From a fusion: awareness (the seer) mixing itself up with what it sees, meaning the body, the mind, the world. When we forget we are the one watching, every change in what's watched feels like a change in us.
Try today
Watch a strong feeling today as if it were weather passing through a sky. You are the sky.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“And behold, Thou wert within, and I abroad, and there I searched for Thee.”
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