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.
मैत्र्यादिषु बलानि
maitry-ādiṣu balāni
Through saṁyama on friendliness and the other attitudes come their strengths.
Yoga Sutras 3.24 · verse 130 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Meditate deeply on friendliness, compassion or gladness, and they become strengths: not moods you sometimes feel, but powers you can rely on. Kindness, practised, becomes a kind of force.
Try today
Hold friendliness in mind for three minutes today, then carry it into your next meeting.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Consider that a good disposition is invincible if it be genuine, and not an affected smile and acting a part.”
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