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.
हानमेषां क्लेशवदुक्तम्
hānam eṣāṁ kleśavad uktam
They are removed in the same way as the causes of suffering.
Yoga Sutras 4.28 · verse 190 of 196
Unfolding the thread
How do we deal with these returning thoughts? Exactly as with the kleśas in chapter two: trace them back to their source when subtle, meditate on them when active. The same medicine works to the end.
Try today
Pick one returning thought and do both: trace where it comes from, then sit with it quietly.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“By two wings is man lifted above earthly things, even by simplicity and purity.”
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