Dionysian Buddhism: Guided Interpersonal Meditations in the Three Yanas

Dionysian Buddhism is a sequence of thirty guided meditations by the renowned spiritual teacher and psychotherapist Claudio Naranjo, based on his decades of teaching internationally. Naranjo draws on a wide range of Buddhist traditions, from Theravada to Vajrayana, in order to create a work that emphasizes both the experiential and multifaceted aspects of meditation. The "Dionysian" context of Buddhism provides a lens in which to interpret non-attachment through noninterference with the stream of life. Each meditation explores not only mental discipline but also body awareness, healing, and partner practices. They are structured to help spiritual seekers explore their emotional landscape, meet pain with joy, expand awareness into universal consciousness, and learn how to share in full presence with another individual. As Naranjo says, Only a change of consciousness might save our world, and that in view of this collective shift in consciousness there is nothing more relevant we can do than start with ourselves.