Four Yogas Of Mahamudra:
II. Yoga of Simplicity. Contact.
-3- Antidote
What are the methods of working with the perverted states?
- "The well" - Visually try to estimate the height and width of the wall that is in front of or surrounding you, as well as the material it's made of. Then investigate it by using your tactile imagination (how does it feel to touch it? Does it yield to bumps?). Again, come back to the visual investigation. Repeat until you feel contact with the surrounding world.
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"Dependency" - Realize that the stimulus (thought or object) of the phenomenon that you're dependent on is present in your consciousness no matter if you are in contact with it or not. More than that, fighting this mental object merely wastes power for its suppression and your non-receptivity to its presence in your mind. Realize that you are forming this image unconsciously, wasting energy to fill and suppress it.
Realize that this object is just a tiny part of your mental world, infinite in its nature. At last, let the image take place, corresponding to its value in this infinity, trusting the realization of the type of feelings that you actually experience now. - "Absence of communication" - Realize that the feeling of isolation from the higher realms is nothing more than our own indifference to higher ideas or to the Path itself. Everything depends only on our awareness of the higher, while grace is always grace, never subject to wavering.
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"The mist" - Not knowing of the Path results from our unwillingness to investigate the problem of a downward moving current, continuing to be present in our consciousness.
The descending current is present this time not in the form of confusion, but as a contradiction. We should investigate those opinions that are forming a contradiction in a role of the third, having powers to decide. -
"The pit" - Identify the feeling of depression with the emptiness of diamond, something indestructible and transparent. This diamond-like emptiness is a foundation of existence. Prefer something that are already disappointed in to something that you will become disappointed in later.
Think of the diamond-like emptiness as a great refuge, giving place for everything, and as well for you as a being and a person.