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.
चित्तान्तरदृश्ये बुद्धिबुद्धेरतिप्रसङ्गः स्मृतिसङ्करश्च
cittāntara-dṛśye buddhi-buddher atiprasaṅgaḥ smṛti-saṅkaraś ca
If one mind were seen by another mind, there would be an endless regress of knowers, and confusion of memory.
Yoga Sutras 4.21 · verse 183 of 196
Unfolding the thread
Suppose the mind is watched by another mind. Then who watches that one? And that? It never ends, and memory would become hopelessly confused. So the final knower must be something other than mind.
Try today
Ask "who is aware of this?" and follow the question back as far as it goes. Notice where it rests.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Every general law only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself.”
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