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.
न चैकचित्ततन्त्रं वस्तु तदप्रमाणकं तदा किं स्यात्
na caika-citta-tantraṁ vastu tad-apramāṇakaṁ tadā kiṁ syāt
An object doesn't depend on a single mind. If it did, what would become of it when that mind wasn't perceiving it?
Yoga Sutras 4.16 · verse 178 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Patanjali isn't saying the world is just in your head. Objects exist independently of any one mind; otherwise they'd vanish whenever we looked away. The world is real; our perceptions of it are what differ.
Try today
Look away from something and back again. Notice that it waited for you.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“This world I’m in’s reality;—not merely form.”
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