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THE ALCHEMICAL CONTEMPLATION OF THE "FOUR THOUGHTS THAT LEAD THE MIND TO THE DHARMA," THE BUDDHIST TECHNOLOGY OF MOTIVATION FOR LIBERATION.
Ignorance, confusion, and samsara itself have not come to an end.
Now that I understand this intolerable unhappiness a fierce determination arises in me.
I enter the path of freedom and true happiness and I follow the freedom of the lineage of teachers to fully awaken this life.
-Jamgon Kongtrul
Tantra is a form of alchemy codified in certain texts and practices. What is sought is to transform the vision to see the divine everywhere (and the being is inseparable from the vision), using devotion, contemplation, and yoga (the mind as the body). In Tibetan Buddhism is used the contemplation of four thoughts or ideas as a preliminary practice to enter the path of Tantric transformation. These are the so-called four thoughts that turn the mind towards dharma or also the four thoughts that liberate the mind of samsara (or illusory cyclic existence). Basically, they are:
1. The precious human life
2. Death and impermanence
3. Karma
4. The Defects of Samsara
The idea of meditating on these four thoughts daily is to inspire us into practice, to keep the desire for liberation and compassion alive (compassion in understanding that samsara is an immense arena of suffering, from which, however, we can liberate ourselves by cultivating this same compassion Which together with wisdom complete the two wings of the bird of nirvana).
The teacher Traktung Yeshe Dorje suggests that by correctly contemplating these thoughts an alchemical process "produces a change in the psyche" occurs. One of the main obstacles practitioners object to is laziness and procrastination, but, says Traktung Yeshe Dorje, if you contemplate the beauty of human birth, depression disappears.
This is because, according to Buddhism, birth as a human is an extremely rare event in the infinite returns of samsara and precious in the sense that in it are the ideal conditions for the liberation and the discovery of our true nature, which is always Immaculate, free from all darkness, nothing but Buddhahood itself.
On the other hand, when contemplating the preciousness of this opportunity, necessarily arises the notion that this same opportunity is disappearing at this moment since the world is impermanent. For this reason, contemplating death ends with procrastination.
Contemplating karma, cut with the madness of believing that someone else is responsible for our suffering or that someone else can save us. Samsara, although suffering in that ignorance prevails, is also a perfect system in which certain acts produce certain equivalent consequences - as surely as the wheel follows the ox that pushes it - and thus, if we act with compassion And wisdom, we are already on the way to releasing ourselves inevitably (and vice versa if we continue to act from anger, fear, envy, etc.).
The fundamental idea of the contemplation of the four thoughts that turn the mind (and bring it into line with the law that is the expression of eternal truth) is that they become experiences and not only in intellectual propositions, according to Traktung Yeshe Dorje.
"Every change in knowledge requires a change in being." By really knowing something, we become what we know, we stop consuming mere information and knowledge becomes transformation: the world becomes different because we are different. Thus is the way of tantra in which everything is seen as pure, perfect, luminous. "The lead of delusory qualities is transformed into the unborn gold of wisdom-consciousness." Traktung Yeshe Dorje says in his book Original Innocence:
This is exactly the path of the Tantric path. The base of the road is your original innocence. The work of the road is to remove obstacles to see what has always been and is true. The result of the path is to inhabit this truth. The basis and result are one and the same. This is why the Tantric path is called "the path of the result". If the path were to give you something that you did not have before, then you could get lost. If I were to take you back to a garden from which you were expelled, then you could again be expelled.
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