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.
द्रष्टा दृशिमात्रः शुद्धोऽपि प्रत्ययानुपश्यः
draṣṭā dṛśi-mātraḥ śuddho 'pi pratyayānupaśyaḥ
The seer is pure awareness; though pure, it appears to see through the mind.
Yoga Sutras 2.20 · verse 71 of 196
Unfolding the thread
The seer is nothing but seeing: pure, untouched. Yet it looks out through the mind's changing contents, and so seems coloured by them. Like the sun reflected in moving water, it looks broken up, though it isn't.
Try today
For one minute, notice that awareness itself hasn't changed all day, though everything it has seen has.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“He is the Mind within my mind: He is the Eye within mine eye.”
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