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.
द्रष्टृदृश्योपरक्तं चित्तं सर्वार्थम्
draṣṭṛ-dṛśyoparaktaṁ cittaṁ sarvārtham
The mind, coloured by both the seer and the seen, can grasp everything.
Yoga Sutras 4.23 · verse 185 of 196
Unfolding the thread
The mind sits between two things: the awareness behind it and the world in front of it. Coloured by both, it can take in anything at all. That's its gift and its confusion.
Try today
Notice today how your mind can hold both a sense of "me" and the whole world at once.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Whatever property may qualify a thing Externally, man’s qualities are mind’s offspring.”
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