Tao Te Ching
Virupa བི་རཱུ་པ།
(“Dakini Master”)
9th century CE
Mahasiddha #3
Though the hero of many miraculous stories of walking on water, making the sun in the sky stop moving, subjugating demons and over-coming Hindu gods; the main symbolism of Virupa’s life revolved around understanding the sense and not just the words, of following a path of moment-to-moment awareness rather than an external set of values, ethics, and discipline. Revered in the Sakya lineage of Tibetan Buddhism as the first lama in the “Journey without Goal School,” he was kicked out of a monastery after living and practicing there for more than 25 because of eating meat and drinking alcohol. The monks soon recognized their mistake and begged him to return but he refused and continued his aimless wondering exemplifying Lao Tzu’s description of wu wei.
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Quotes by Virupa (3 quotes)
“Without self, not thinking, not achieving… I live in consummate pure delight and perfect awareness.”
Chapters:
13. Honor and Disgrace
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“The innate purity that is the nature of mind… exists within, so do not look elsewhere.”
from Masters of Mahamudra
Chapters:
6. The Source
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“I who live in spontaneous reality... exist in things as they are.”
Chapters:
32. Uncontrived Awareness
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Quotes about Virupa (1 quotes)
“Some engaged in lifestyles that ordinarily would have been transgressions of Buddhist ethics. For example, the mahasiddha Saraha worked as an arrow maker and produced weapons in violation of the principle of harmlessness and nonaggression. Tilopa, the founder of the Karyu lineage, worked for a while as a procurer for an Indian prostitute. Virupa was famed for consuming miraculous amounts of liquor...”
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