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Four Thoughts That Turn The Mind To Dharma

• (Rare and precious human birth, Death and impermanence, Cause and effect, Sufferings of samsara.)
• The Four Thoughts are external preliminaries. It is like shining a light outside and looking at samsara. Then benefits of liberation will become apparent.
• Be someone whose mind is turned away from happiness of samsara – who is aware the dream will end.
• Create a habit. Turn mind again and again. In every session, turn mind to dharma. Within the session, turn mind to dharma.
• Turn mind from what? Attachment and aversion. Grasping.
• What is left when mind turns away is enlightenment. Right here in the Four Thoughts is the wisdom of Dzogchen.
• A raw fruit is not edible. Similarly, a mind not turned to Dharma is not useable.
• Which part of the four thoughts do you not understand? Even the god realms will come to an end.
• Without Four Thoughts, practice is worldly dharma.
• Why we turn the mind? To not return to cyclic existence.
• Stay within the bounds of the Four Thoughts. Make this a foundation from which you cannot be shaken out of.
• At the end of the Four Thoughts you should feel that your mind needs to be purified.
• Now we see the need to acquire causes and conditions, because just wishing for liberation will not make it happen. Hence the uncommon preliminaries.
• Four Thoughts provide the context for the buddhist spiritual path.
• Turn mind from seeking pleasure. Remember impermanence.
• Overcome the belief that happiness can be found in samsara. Give up all effort to satisfy desire. Give up laziness.
• Turning the mind is difficult. To keep it turned is even more difficult.
• If your mind is turned, you will have time to practice dharma.
• Without the four thoughts, there is no way to experience a genuine wish to free from samsara and gain liberation.
• In samsara there will always be suffering of not getting what you want and getting what you don’t want.
• Embody the Four Thoughts. Make it a living practice.
• Cultivate the mind to practice in this life, not in the next life. Practice now, not later.