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.
ग्रहणस्वरूपास्मितान्वयार्थवत्त्वसंयमादिन्द्रियजयः
grahaṇa-svarūpāsmitānvayārthavattva-saṁyamād indriya-jayaḥ
Through saṁyama on the senses' power of perceiving, their nature, the ego-sense, their relations and their purpose comes mastery over the senses.
Yoga Sutras 3.48 · verse 154 of 196
Unfolding the thread
The same five-part analysis is now turned on the senses: how they grasp, what they are, how they connect to the sense of "I", how they relate, and what they're for. Understand the senses that thoroughly and you're no longer their servant.
Try today
Next time a sense pulls you (a smell, a screen), notice the pull itself before following it.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“In the body restraint is good, good is restraint in speech, in thought restraint is good, good is restraint in all things. A Bhikshu, restrained in all things, is freed from all pain.”
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