Doha Treasury of Virupa. 3 teaching sessions. Zoom, 2024.

Doha Treasury of Virupa

James Low

Zoom, 2024.

The transcripts of James Low’s three Zoom teachings on this are prepared by Kate Egetmeyer.

Transcript of Session 1 (17/2/24) can be read here. The video of session 1 can be watched here.

Transcript of Session 2 (23/3/24) can be read here. The video of session 2 can be watched here.

Transcript of Session 3 (13/4/24) can be read here. The video of session 3 can be watched here.

You can read the Virupa text here translated in various languages. It is included in the book Sweet Simplicity (Simply Being, UK, 2021) ISBN 9781739938154. 

Excerpts from Session 3

“The whole world is like a dharma text — you can read every building, every person, every car, every dog as a teaching. And this is what we have to do. Most of us are not living in dharma centres or in buddhist communities. We don’t see prayer flags and stupas everywhere. We have to stay on the dharma path with minimal external support. We have to support ourselves, but without striving, without pushing, without trying to make things better — as we’ve just been discussing. So Virupa is going to end by giving us some gentle encouragement on how to do this…”

 

 

“…We can go to the east, to the west, to the north or the south. We can find many doors to make us lost, but there is only one door to awakening and this is your mind. You have a mind. Your mind is with you. You don’t need to go on a pilgrimage to find it. You don’t have to buy it. You can’t lose it because it is the actual basis of all that you experience. May we work for the benefit of all sentient beings and bring some clarity to all! I hope that dharma keeps your life happy and light, floating easily.”