Online: The Ten Paramis – A Ten Month Course
with Amy Selzer and Nancy Glimm
Saturday, February 25th – Saturday, November 11th, 2023 | 10:00am – 1:00pm ET
During this new 10-month online course on the Buddha’s teachings on ten enlightened qualities known as the Ten Paramis or Perfections, we will meet once a month to deeply explore each of the qualities: Generosity, Virtue, Renunciation, Wisdom, Energy, Patience, Truthfulness, Determination, Lovingkindness, and Equanimity.
As we work with the Paramis, we will become more aware of our limiting habitual patterns and begin to see how we have become conditioned to react in a particular ways that do not serve us or others.
Focusing on the Paramis allows us to deepen our internal qualities of heart and mind, leading to more openness and acceptance and less stress toward whatever is arising in our experience.
Although the Paramis are perfect, and we are not, we begin to accept ourselves, so we can live more fully JUST AS WE ARE!
When we practice these qualities, we practice being present, aware, and non-judgmental toward our thoughts and emotions. We can think of these ten qualities as a support for us in our lives since they offer us an alternative that can replace unwholesome habits with something wholesome. We can bring this teaching into our daily lives and apply it to our felt experiences as they arise.
Through this course, we will learn to discern what is wholesome, which will help us know how to make wise choices.
We will be creating an ongoing sangha as we engage with these teachings. Participants will be able to choose if they would like to have a “Dharma Buddy” whom they can connect with each month for further practice.
This course will provide monthly dharma study, including bi-weekly practice suggestions.
We hope to deepen your experience through the Paramis so you may experience greater freedom, open-heartedness, and equanimity in all that life brings.
Each class will consist of meditation practice, dharma talks, break-out rooms, and sharing.
This class welcomes all levels of practice.
The full schedule for the ten Saturdays is:
February 25th, March 18th, April 15th, May 20th, June 17th, July 15th, August 19th, September 16th, October 21st, November 11th 2023
Registration:
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Registration Fees include Teacher Support
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Teacher(s)
Amy Selzer
Amy Selzer has been practicing vipassana meditation since 2002. She completed two year-long classes on Integrated Study and Practice with Andrew Olendski.
She is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leaders Program. After she graduated, she saw a need to address the aging population. She is one of the founders of that sangha, Aging As A Spiritual Practice, which meets weekly to this day.
She has also been one of the core teachers in the year- long Death and Dying classes. She has served as Co-Chair on the Teacher’s Council for over 3 years.
Amy’s former career was team- teaching young children in an inclusion program for children with and without special needs. In addition, she worked with and supported the parents of those children.
She is particularly passionate about the dharma and the aging population, as well as all other practitioners.
Nancy Glimm
Nancy has been practicing meditation since 1996. She has been a member of NYIMC since it’s inception in 1997. Her first teacher Tamara Engel was one of NYIMC’s founders. Nancy has taught broadly on the Dharma since her graduation from the Community Dharma Leader Teacher Training Program at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in 2012. Since 2013 she has been a core teacher for the NYIMC Aging as a Spiritual Practice sangha and courses. Since 2019 she has been a core teacher for the Life and Death year long courses. Her primary teacher since 2012 is Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia.
Nancy is also a psychotherapist with a full time private practice in NYC. Her private practice is informed by her Dharma training.