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.
तदपि बहिरङ्गं निर्बीजस्य
tad api bahir-aṅgaṁ nirbījasya
Yet even these are outer compared with seedless absorption.
Yoga Sutras 3.8 · verse 114 of 196
Unfolding the thread
A humbling reminder. Even concentration, meditation and absorption are "outer" compared with seedless samādhi, where nothing at all is held. Every achievement in practice is a step toward something that can't be achieved, only allowed.
Try today
Whatever you've gained in practice, hold it lightly today. There is always further in.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.”
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