The Zen of Recovery (Audible Audio Edition) Mel Ash Kevin Young Audible Studios Books
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Zen mind connects to the heart of recovery in this compelling blend of East and West. Courageously drawing from his lifetime of experience as an abused child, alcoholic, Zen student, and dharma teacher, author Mel Ash gives listeners a solid grounding in the Twelve Steps and the Eightfold Path and shows their useful similarities for those in recovery.
The Zen of Recovery (Audible Audio Edition) Mel Ash Kevin Young Audible Studios Books
"The Zen of Recovery" is a book for those seeking recovery for drugs, alcohol, or suffering from the human condition. There is far more than simply the twelve steps in this book.Having witnesed the transforming power of the twelve steps firsthand but never really being in love with the "Big Book", this was a breath of fresh air! "The Zen of Recovery" has absolutely reinvigorated my recovery and is teaching me how to live in today, free of expectations and fear, in a way I never could in the program previously.
I'm in absolutely no way a basher of AA literature or any belief system. We all must find what works for us and our recovery. I found recovery in the rooms, twe've steps and the literature. I simply arrived at a place where I could no longer move forward in my spiritually in the manner I was doing my recovery.
This book smooths out the edges for me that I found in "Alcoholics Anonymous" and speaks to me in a language I understand. The spiritual principles are the same in this book as AA literature just in a way that works for me. It has become my "Big Book" and I actually look forward to reading from it daily instead of having to discipline myself to read AA literature.
There is no criticism in " The Zen of Recovery against traditional AA or any higher power or belief system. In fact Mel Ash speaks about Bill W and the program with reverence. No conflict. No argument. Just Zen. What else could there be?
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The Zen of Recovery (Audible Audio Edition) Mel Ash Kevin Young Audible Studios Books Reviews
While nearly everyone can benefit from the twelve step programs of recovery, many recoil from their traditional religious concepts. This book serves as a bridge over those troubled waters. Considering the profit motive of the predatory multi-billion dollar recovery and therapy industry, I consider any book that encourages people to gravitate towards helping one another for free a good thing. How valuable do I think this book is? Valuable enough that I was willing to allow to exploit me for a free review that will make them money to recommend it.
Excellent work. His story was my story. In my 20 years of sobriety I know Imust enlarge my spiritual practice. This is helping a great deal.
Back in the late 80's, when I had trouble with the idea of turning my life and my will over to the care of a God I no longer believed in, this book saved my life. Did I believe that zazen could restore me to sanity? Without a doubt.
I've been clean now for 27 years, and owe it in part to Mel Ash.
Thank you, my friend.
Mel Ash, using Zen as the spiritual component, adapts the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and zens it up. It's easy to swallow for me because the emphasis is not singularly recovery from alcoholism but also eating disorders, narcotic addiction, etc. The reading is gentle and doesn't underestimate or devalue the audience with sterile language. It gets awfully real world and how we can intermingle our recovery into our lives, which is what I wanted when I entered into recovery.
He talks a lot about how our denial *is* our sickness...from the 12 steps perspective and from the Zen perspective; that even those not in a compulsion may still suffer simply from the predisposed human condition. He speaks of our *dualistic* thinking [good/bad, right/wrong, black/white] as the manifestation of our human condition and more to the extent of our compulsions... How we in our compulsions/addictions are the magnification of the human suffering condition...just to the extreme.
This book is compassionate, intelligent, and worthy of top shelf status. It does not interfere with one's religious views but can enhance anyone's recovery. For me, this book, is what I have been searching for; the combined 12 steps with a spiritual component I can relate to. I really enjoy this book and know it will be favored by me in years to come, as it's more of a living philosophy within recovery and without.
The 12-Steps and Alcoholics Anonymous originated in the very Christian "Oxford Groups" and the Christian thread remains strong. While some of the members of AA complain that the message is being diluted, many find that AA has become more available to non-Christian members. The new interpretation of the 12-Step process with other religious foundations, and the non-deistic paths from express atheism, Buddhism and 'rational recovery' has allowed more people to approach the AA solution to the problems of alcoholism and the other dysfunctions that disease can mask.
Zen Buddhism is particularly harmonic with 12-Step process, with an emphasis on the here and now, and the guidance to focus on immediate actions and attitudes.
This book gives a very solid foundation in the Zen approach and will not tempt believers from their existing faith. Zen is a different flavor of Buddhism that can work in the application of yoru existing faith, or provide a path for those who have had been unsuccessful with previous attempts at sober living.
This starts out to be a good introduction to a Buddhist perspective on 12 step programs but shifts to being a sales pitch for support of 12 step programs. None the less it is helpful and informative to those interested in these two philosophy. However, near the end of the book Ash becomes outlandishly expansive and presents the notion that personal recover is responsible for and tied to "recovery of the planets true nature", "urgent need for global recovery", saving the whales (no I'm not kidding) and in general ties recovery of what sounds like an environmentalists list of planetary disasters awaiting us all. I have visions of Michael Moore and Al Gore. Up until this point the book makes sense, then it gets almost psychotically expansive with no understanding of the value of personal boundaries. In general recovering people have a full plate dealing with what is in their spear of influence without adding making amends to the global population, planet and whales. Don't get me wrong, I love whales, but this gets rather far afield.
"The Zen of Recovery" is a book for those seeking recovery for drugs, alcohol, or suffering from the human condition. There is far more than simply the twelve steps in this book.
Having witnesed the transforming power of the twelve steps firsthand but never really being in love with the "Big Book", this was a breath of fresh air! "The Zen of Recovery" has absolutely reinvigorated my recovery and is teaching me how to live in today, free of expectations and fear, in a way I never could in the program previously.
I'm in absolutely no way a basher of AA literature or any belief system. We all must find what works for us and our recovery. I found recovery in the rooms, twe've steps and the literature. I simply arrived at a place where I could no longer move forward in my spiritually in the manner I was doing my recovery.
This book smooths out the edges for me that I found in "Alcoholics Anonymous" and speaks to me in a language I understand. The spiritual principles are the same in this book as AA literature just in a way that works for me. It has become my "Big Book" and I actually look forward to reading from it daily instead of having to discipline myself to read AA literature.
There is no criticism in " The Zen of Recovery against traditional AA or any higher power or belief system. In fact Mel Ash speaks about Bill W and the program with reverence. No conflict. No argument. Just Zen. What else could there be?
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