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.
त्रयमेकत्र संयमः
trayam ekatra saṁyamaḥ
The three together on one object are called saṁyama.
Yoga Sutras 3.4 · verse 110 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Concentration, meditation and absorption, practised together on the same object, have a single name: saṁyama, perfect restraint or integration. The rest of this chapter describes what saṁyama can reveal when directed at different things.
Try today
Choose one object today and give it all three: bring your attention there, keep it flowing, and let yourself disappear into it.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“A threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
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