Dionysian Buddhism: Guided Interpersonal Meditations

Dionysian Buddhism: Guided Interpersonal Meditations in the Three Yanas, by Claudio Naranjo

Most meditation books ask you to sit quietly and go inward. Claudio Naranjo — psychiatrist, mystic, and one of the great synthesizers of 20th-century consciousness work — had other plans. This collection of guided interpersonal meditations is built for two (or more), pulling Buddhist practice out of solitary silence and into the messier, richer territory of actually being present with another person.

Naranjo, who developed these meditations across decades of teaching and later translated the book himself from Spanish into English, draws on traditions from Theravada to Vajrayana to build something genuinely his own: a "Dionysian" reading of non-attachment, less about detaching from life and more about stopping your interference with it. The result meets pain with joy instead of avoiding it, and treats full presence with another human as its own kind of practice. Not a casual gift-shop meditation book — this one asks you to actually show up.

Details:

• 176 pages, paperback or eBook
• Published by Synergetic Press, July 2022