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.
शान्तोदिताव्यपदेश्यधर्मानुपाती धर्मी
śāntoditāvyapadeśya-dharmānupātī dharmī
There is an underlying substance that persists through its past, present and future forms.
Yoga Sutras 3.14 · verse 120 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Behind all the changing forms is something that carries them: clay behind every pot, gold behind every ornament. Forms come and go, in the past, the present and the not-yet; the substance runs through them all.
Try today
Look at something changing (a candle, a plant, your own face) and sense what stays through the change.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.”
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