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.
हेतुफलाश्रयालम्बनैः सङ्गृहीतत्वादेषामभावे तदभावः
hetu-phalāśrayālambanaiḥ saṅgṛhītatvād eṣām abhāve tad-abhāvaḥ
Because they are held together by cause, result, support and object, when these are gone, the tendencies are gone too.
Yoga Sutras 4.11 · verse 173 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Tendencies aren't free-floating. They are held in place by four things: a cause, a result, a mind to rest in, and an object to fix on. Remove those, and they dissolve. No tendency is permanent.
Try today
Pick one habit and ask: what feeds it? Remove one of those supports today.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Without a means or cause, no means from self e’er rose.”
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