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.
विशेषाविशेषलिङ्गमात्रालिङ्गानि गुणपर्वाणि
viśeṣāviśeṣa-liṅga-mātrāliṅgāni guṇa-parvāṇi
The qualities of nature appear in stages: the specific, the unspecific, the barely marked, and the unmanifest.
Yoga Sutras 2.19 · verse 70 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Nature unfolds in layers, from the obvious to the invisible. There are concrete things we can touch, subtler principles behind them, the first faint mark of existence, and finally the unmanifest ground from which everything comes. Meditation travels back through these layers toward the source.
Try today
Hold an object and consider its layers: what it is, what it's made of, what that is made of. Go as far back as you can.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“The Tao produced One; One produced Two; Two produced Three; Three produced All things.”
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