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.
ततस्तद्विपाकानुगुणानामेवाभिव्यक्तिर्वासनानाम्
tatas tad-vipākānuguṇānām evābhivyaktir vāsanānām
From these, only those tendencies appear whose conditions for ripening are present.
Yoga Sutras 4.8 · verse 170 of 196
Unfolding the thread
We carry countless tendencies, but only those whose conditions are right show up at any time. A seed of anger waits for an insult. Change the conditions, and different tendencies ripen.
Try today
Notice which conditions tend to bring out your worst: tiredness, hunger, hurry. Change one of them today.
The Echo
The same truth, heard in another tradition
“Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.”
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