About the Beacon
We share teachings on abundance over scarcity, the Lojong mind-training tradition, and the path of the sacred warrior — given clearly and freely, with no claim to represent anyone but ourselves.
The Dharma Beacon is an independent dharma and meditation community. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representative of any single institution, lineage organization, or trademark holder. What we offer is drawn from teachings that belong to no one and to everyone.
We are a community of practitioners trying to live well in a culture that has been trained, for good historical reasons, to see what is missing. Our central lens is the shift from a scarcity mind — the forgotten assumption that there is not enough — to an abundance discipline of seeing what is already here. We do not treat this as a new religion or a brand. We treat it as a way of looking that the teachings, old and new, have been pointing at all along.
We draw openly and gratefully on the public teachings of Chögyam Trungpa, on the Lojong mind-training tradition of Atisha, on the Bodhisattva precepts as practice slogans, on Trungpa's Great Eastern Sun teachings, and on our community's own text, The Hidden Power of Abundance. None of these are scripture to us; they are tested lenses, and we invite you to test them against your own life rather than believe them on anyone's word.
We do not claim to be the official anything. The dharma doesn't need a brand. It just needs to be given clearly and freely. If a teaching here ever feels like it is serving an institution or a self-image rather than your own clarity, please say so — that is exactly the kind of thing a real spiritual friend should be told.
The public record of Trungpa's talks, articles, and curated explorations — basic goodness, the Great Eastern Sun, drala, and the path of the sacred warrior. We link to it as a public resource; we do not claim to represent it.
Open the library ↗Earthy, practical mind-training instructions for cultivating bodhichitta through tonglen and everyday life, as taught by Chögyam Trungpa and elaborated by Judith L. Lief.
Ten precepts reframed as positive daily habits — generosity, contentment, honest speech — rather than rules. A clean entry point for western practitioners.
Our community's own book draft on the paradigm shift from scarcity to abundance — the plain-language articulation of the same mind the dharma addresses.
Trungpa's foundational Shambhala text on the Great Eastern Sun versus the setting sun, basic goodness, the cocoon, drala, and the four dignities of the warrior's path.
We use "Shambhala" as the name of a body of public teachings about basic goodness and an enlightened society, not as a claim of affiliation with any organization that may hold it as a trademark. Our programs, events, and groups carry their own names. Where we list dharma centers in our directory, we describe them honestly and do not present independent groups as official arms of institutions they are not part of. If you notice a listing that overstates or misrepresents an affiliation, please tell us and we will correct it.
“Begin the sequence of sending and taking with yourself.”
LOJONG SLOGAN 10
What it means
You cannot give away what you have never received. Start compassion practice by acknowledging your own fear, tightness, and longing — then breathe that in first. You are not exempt from the kindness you are offering the world.
Today's practice
Place a hand on your chest for one breath and silently say, 'This is hard for me too.' Then go on with your day.
Pick one ordinary thing in front of you — a cup, a face, a window — and let it be seen without the running commentary of what's missing or what's next. Two breaths. This is the Great Eastern Sun: the dignity of the present when the setting-sun mind relaxes.
FROM GREAT EASTERN SUN
A single, simple practice — one you can actually do today. Come back tomorrow for the next one.
These teachings belong to no one and to everyone. We link to their public sources rather than claim them as our own. Read them in their original context; test them against your own life.
The public archive of Trungpa's talks, articles, book-to-talk playlists, and curated explorations — basic goodness, the Great Eastern Sun, drala, and the sacred warrior path. Properly attributed as a public resource, not appropriated.
LIBRARY.CHOGYAMTRUNGPA.COM
A curated exploration within the library that names the central orientation our community draws on — the Great Eastern Sun versus the setting sun.
LIBRARY · EXPLORATION
Chögyam Trungpa's commentary on the 59 Lojong slogans of Atisha (Nālandā Translation Committee, 1993). The living source of our Slogan of the Week feature.
BOOK REFERENCE
Judith L. Lief's approachable commentary (2021) on practicing the Lojong slogans in everyday western life — the plain-language style we try to follow.
BOOK REFERENCE
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