If you belong to a 12 Step Group, at one time you will hear someone say, "Upon working the steps, one day you will see where the Steps are working you!" The same can be said when you meditate with Zen koans ... a koan can pop into your life when you least expect it, giving you a new perspective on matters. Here we are practicing with koans to see how they can deepen our understanding of the 12 Steps in new and unexpected ways.
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Friday, March 31, 2017
Time to Play With Our April Koan...
Step 4: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Koan: Someone asked his teacher, “But what about during disasters?”
She responded, “That’s it, too.”
This thing I call 12 & Zen; and by using koans in a non-traditional way, we play.
Playing a Step off a koan and playing a koan off a Step can bring about a new awareness.
It’s like hitting the refresh button on your computer. Twelve and Zen is a 12-Step refresh button!
Are you ready to play?
Bill K.
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