C Clinton SidleVipassana Meditation and Ayahuasca
Skillful Means for Transcending the Ego and Opening to Spiritual Growth
C. Clinton Sidle is the former and founding director of the Roy H. Park Leadership Fellows Program at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, where his leadership programs are nationally recognized. A longtime Buddhist practitioner and the author of several books, including The Leadership Wheel, he lives in Ithaca, New York.
Introduction
PART I
The Cosmic Fool
1 What Makes You a Buddhist
2 The Cosmic Fool
PART II
Cracking the Cosmic Egg
3 Introduction to Ayahuasca
4 My Experience: Ceremonies and Reflections
5 The Three-Year Cycle Ends: Some Takeaways
PART III
A Path of Awakening
6 Longing and the Spirit of Awakening
7 Meditation Benefits and Myths
Shamata Instruction I
8 The Monkey Mind
Shamata Instruction II
9 The Grip of the Lesser Spirit 1
Sweeping Shamata Vipassana Instruction I
10 The Freedom of the Greater Spirit
Sweeping Shamata Vipassana Instruction II
11 The Cosmic Joke: Peering into Transcendence
and Who Am I?
Open Shamata Vipassana I
12 Bodhicitta and the Six Paramitas
Open Shamata Vipassana II
13 The Bodhisattva’s Way of Life
Open Space Vipassana I
14 Karma and Taking Everything as Path
Open Space Vipassana II
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author and Suggested Retreat Centers