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THE ZEN OF RECOVERY

MEL  ASH

A Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam Book

Publish by

G.P.Putnam’s Sons

New York

                        CONTENTS

Thanks

Preface

Yet another finger pointing at the moon

An introduction

Foundations: The finger

Hi! My name is

What is Zen?

What is recovery?

The Zen of recovery

An Interpretation of the twelve steps

The Zen of recovery heart sutra

Reflections: The pointing

You are enlightened already

You are dead already

This world is dream enough

The emptiness of love

The fullness of love

Love the one you’re with

Your defects are defective

Moment to moment, a day at a time

You have nothing to fear alone together

Inner child + inner monster = original face

The further you go, the closer you get

Directions: The moon

Hanging froma a cliff

How to let go

Killing the Buddha instead of ourselves

An approache to Teachers and Sponsors

A Day without work is a day without eating

Personal and global recovery

Sitting around, doing nothing, looking at the floor

The Spiritual Mechanics of Meditation

The bones of others

Yet more fingers pointing at the moon

Readingsand Bibliography

                        PREFACE

The Zen of Recovery is for people in both new and mature twelve step recovery and for anyone interested in learning and applying the universal lessons of both Zen and recovery. Concerned primarily with the Eleventh Step suggestion that we mediate in order to “improve our conscious contact” with a Higher Power, this book focus on ways in which we might apply the powerful meditation wisdom of the East to our own Western traditions so that we might live more fully a day at a tìme.

The synthesis that is presented in these pages takes nothing for granted and introduces the reader to the ideas on a number of levels and with a variety of formats. The Zen of Recovery uses a three-fold structure not unlike that found in both Buddhism and recovery. Buddhism’s most important aspects are called the Three Jewels. These are: the Buddha (teacher), the Dharma (teaching) and the Shangha (community of believers). In recovery, we are told that our diseases are threefold: mental, physical and spiritual, and that in order to recover we must attend equally to each of those areas.

The book is presented in three sections, based on the old Zen story of the finger pointing at the moon. The story is told and explained in the introduction of the same name. Part One, “Foundations: the Finger”, presents background material crucial to an understanding of the rest of the book. My personal history and those of Zen and recovery are presented. These are followed by an interpretation of the Twelve Steps and a rendering of the Heart Sutra, Zen’s pivotal document. “The Finger” refers to original historical teachings and experiences.

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