So Good You Can't Accept It

Don’t go looking for the great awakened elephant that is already resting quietly at home in front of your hearth. LAMA GENDUN

"So close you can’t see it
So subtle your mind can’t understand it
So simple you can’t believe it
So good you can’t accept it."

~ Shangpa Kagyü Tibetan Buddhist tradition was founded by "Khyungpo Naljor (1002-1064) who was prophesied by the Buddha. He made his seat in a place called Shang in the Tsang region of Tibet. He was therefore known as the Lama Shangpa and his lineage the Shangpa Kagyü. Thangtong Gyalpo and Jetsün Taranatha were among the great masters who upheld this lineage, which is one of the Eight practice lineages. In the 19th century, when the lineage was almost extinguished, the great masters Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Thayé and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo gathered together the transmissions of the different branches and gave renewed energy to the lineage. Kalu Rinpoche and Bokar Rinpoche were the recent heads of this school, and founded a great number of centres in the West." ~ Rigpawiki.org

Photo ~ The principal Shangpa dharmapala, the six-armed Mahākāla