Evening Meditations, 12th August 2025 evening in Sheffield

A long tiring day, nothing particularly remarkable, Had worked on the divi theme for a wordpress blog, probably the hardest thing I have tried in years. Finally found a tutorial that might be useful. On another note, also got into creating a survey using Redcap Software. Another difficult to work but there should be enough tutorials and guides I suppose. I found a tutorial.

The morning Tratak meditation combining Sri Aurobindo’s method and Dudjom Lingpa’s advice on watching the mind was a terrific experience. Alan Wallace advises a 24 minute ghatika time to devote to it. What this is basically is to focus at a point somewhere between your two eyebrows, and then watch your thoughts as they come and go. Learn to watch yourself. This is soothing experience in the sense that you learn a lot about yourself in the process.There are two ways to do so:

  1. Watch your breaths as the breathings come and go
  2. Watch your thoughts and mind as the thoughts come and go

Both these activities are useful. I have set a watch timer on my wrist, then close my eyes as I lie down. Ideally, I need to sit up through the process, but lying down in bed is equally enjoyable. We have a savage winter these days here in New Zealand, rainy morning and darkness till seven in the morning does not quite help either. But I started enjoying these quiet meditations in bed.