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.
एतेन भूतेन्द्रियेषु धर्मलक्षणावस्थापरिणामा व्याख्याताः
etena bhūtendriyeṣu dharma-lakṣaṇāvasthā-pariṇāmā vyākhyātāḥ
In the same way, changes of form, of time and of condition in the elements and senses are explained.
Yoga Sutras 3.13 · verse 119 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Everything changes in three ways: in form (clay becomes a pot), in time (it was, is, will be), and in condition (new becomes old). The same laws that describe the changing mind describe the changing world.
Try today
Notice something today in all three kinds of change: its form, its place in time, its wear.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them.”
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