Dr. Claudio Naranjo (1932 - 2019) was a Chilean-born psychotherapist, medical doctor, author, educator, Buddhist practitioner, and pioneer in the areas of psychology, psychedelic therapies, and human development. Naranjo was an early practitioner of the “Enneagram of Personality” which he enriched with his deep understanding of psychology and more esoteric aspects of work with the psyche. He ultimately created SAT (Seekers After Truth) integrating Gestalt therapy, the Enneagram, contemplative practices, music and art therapy, and other practices designed to provide deep personal insights.

In his later years, he expanded his work to explore education and its role in promoting patriarchal worldviews that contribute to our deepening global crisis. Naranjo is the author of several books including The Healing Journey: Pioneering Approaches to Psychedelic Therapy (2nd edition), (MAPS 2013), The Revolution We Expected: Cultivating a New Politics of Consciousness (Synergetic Press, 2020), and the forthcoming Dionysian Buddhism: Guided Interpersonal Meditations in the Three Yanas (Synergetic Press, 2022).

Preface

Why Buddhist meditation?

Something about the Theravada tradition and something further on the notion of Dionysian

Buddhism

I Theravada Variations

1. Sweet Doing Nothing?In Relation

2. An Introduction to Vipassana

3. Panoramic Attention and Transparent Presence

4. The Enjoyment of Breath, the Silence of Thought and Panoramic Attention to the

Present Moment

5. Disappearing Into Infinity

6. Meeting Pain with Joy

7. Meditation in Pairs as a Portal to Universal Compassion

II A Minimal Introduction to Zazen

1. Non-Doing in the Context of Surrender and Generosity

2. From ?Not Even Non-doing? (Wu Wu Wei) To the Realization That ?From the

Beginning Nothing Existed?

3. What Are Your Thoughts Up To?

4. Shikantaza

5. Dropping the Body and the Mind

6. The Subtle Attention of Nirvana.

7. The Truth That Can Set Us Free

8. Renouncing the Objects of Consciousness to Return to Ourselves

9. The Ocean and the Waves

10. About the Bodhisattva Ideal and the Virtue of Being Satisfied With Counting

Breaths

11. Words of Dogen

III An Introduction to the Knowledge of the Mind in the Tibetan Tradition.

Some Features of Tantric Buddhism

1. Bringing Together Shamata and Vipassana.

2. The Mirror, the Crystal and Space

3. Vipassana from the Perspective of Space

4. From the Awareness of Mental Phenomena to the Awareness of Awareness

5. Entering Meditation with Compassion Through an Appeal to Avalokiteshvara

6. Time and the Eternal Present

7. On Devotion Through the Vajra Guru Mantram

8. The Awareness of a Subtle Body

Addendum

Contemplations of Death

The Eternal Present That We Are

Some Further Advice To My Readers