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.
दुःखानुशयी द्वेषः
duḥkhānuśayī dveṣaḥ
Aversion follows pain.
Yoga Sutras 2.8 · verse 59 of 196
Unfolding the thread
The mirror image of the last verse. Something painful happens, and a trace remains: a pushing away, a resolve never to feel that again. Aversion protects us, but it also narrows our lives. We start avoiding people, places, even parts of ourselves.
Try today
Notice one thing you avoid out of old discomfort. Just look at it kindly today, without needing to change anything.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Take away thy opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, "I have been harmed." Take away the complaint, "I have been harmed," and the harm is taken away.”
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