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How do we understand humanity's decision to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the earth's atmosphere long past the time when the information from mainstream science has told us that in doing so we are choosing our own demise? This talk from Dharma Friends Community guiding teacher, Callie Justice, looks at answers to this question from the ancient Greek myth of Icarus and from the Buddha's...

Many people begin meditating hoping to reach states of deep blissful contemplation - samadhi, or at least to get a bit calmer and less stressed in their lives. In this talk, Callie Justice, looks at how practicing the whole of the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path provides a strong framework for practicing meditation.

The Early Discourses of the Buddha teach three practices for cultivating deep mindfulness of the body. This guided practice from Dharma Friends Community guiding teacher, Callie Justice, interweaves these three foundational practices.

In this talk to the Dharma Friends Community's Practice Deepening Group on March 13, 2022, DFC guiding teacher, Callie Justice, highlights her understanding of a few of the Buddha's core teachings as we find them in the early Buddhist scriptures. Callie's spins on the practices taught in the early texts for cultivating the Four Divine Abidings (Brahamaviharas) and on how to establish mindfulnes...

A talk given to organize nonviolent civil resistance to the climate crisis in North Carolina. 01-30-22

Resources for this talk can be found at docs.google.com/document/d/1LtBAMIat44jV7DtbZY-uoobdiU2vzBaE97IK8KQB2Is/edit

The story of how the Buddha stops the murderer and bandit, Angulimala, from terrorizing the countryside supports those working today to stop the killings and thefts bound up in the climate crisis. This talk was given by Callie Justice to the Practice Deepening Group of Dharma Friends Community in Durham, NC. To learn more about Extinction Rebellion, visit rebellion.global.

In this talk Dharma Friends Community teacher, Callie Justice discusses the traumatic impact of living in a time of climate crisis and guides a reflection for cultivating the Four Divine Abodes: love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity. One of the many sources for this type of contemplation in the early Buddhist text is AN 10.219 which can be accessed at suttacentral.net/an10.219/en/sujato T...

In this talk given by Callie Justice to the Dharma Friends Community's Practice Deepening Group, on August 15, 2021, we hear how the early Buddhist teachings found in the discourse 'The Vipers' - Connected Discourses of the Buddha, SN 35.238 - relates to the recently release report on the climate crisis by the United Nation's International Panel on Climate Change. The talk includes a considerat...

This talk, given to the Practice Deepening Group of Dharma Friends Community by Callie Justice, investigates the importance of reading the whole discourse and not interpreting one part of a teaching separately from the whole discourse. The discourse under consideration is 'A Single Excellent Night,' The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, MN131, Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans., Wisdom Publications, 1...

The Four Brahmaviharas or Divine Abidings are contemplations taught by the Buddha for cultivating four skillfull states of mind and heart. The four are: metta (good will or loving kindness); compassion; rejoicing and equanimity. This guided meditation is led by Dharma Friends Community guiding teacher, Callie Justice drawing on teachings from the early Buddhist texts.

This guided meditation can be used to transition into breath meditation practice or it can serve as a compassion contemplation practice. Led by Callie Justice of Dharma Friends Community.

The sixteen steps of breath meditation guide the meditator from beginning with simple awareness of breathing in and out all the way to freedom from suffering through to freedom from creating the grounds for suffering in our minds. This brief guided reflection on the sixteen steps, is offered by Callie Justice, as a contemplation for transitioning into breath meditation practice. The full discou...

This talk by Dharma Friends Community Guiding Teacher, Callie Justice, introduces the practice of breath meditation.

Metta and Charnel Ground Contemplation

Serenity and Insight Practice

Precepts Practice in Support of Breath Meditation

Three Core Practices for Establishing Mindfulness of the Body

Guided Meditation on the Four Elements

The Parts of the Body Full Contemplation

Walking Meditation

Transition to Breath Meditation

Metta Meditation

Mindfulness of Breathing

Contemplation on the Parts of the Body - Shorter Version

The Four Elements