The 12 Steps and Zen Koans

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...

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Step 4:  Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Koan: Someone asked his teacher, “But what about during disasters?...
Saturday, March 11, 2017

The Essential Source of Step 3

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Step 3:  Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. Koan: “…with whatever meets your eye b...
Saturday, February 11, 2017

Give me the reaching...

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Step 2:   Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. Koan: A student said to Yunmen, “I’...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

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Hello All, Having had a bout with the flu, I'm back among the living!   The koan I had planned for January,  we'll see it again lat...
Sunday, January 1, 2017

January 2017 Step and Koan

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NOTICE  I apologize for this additional email to you all -- it's the only way I can contact local people.  This is the first time we...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Step Twelve is a song...

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Step 12: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and practice these pri...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Step Eleven, Picking and Choosing...

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A coin is flipped high in the air.  “Call it!” I say heads.  “Tails you lose.” How often it seems, when we were “out there,” we lost as a ...
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We try to carry the 12 Step message to those who are suffering, "and to practice these principles in all our affairs." In Buddhism, our practice includes the vow to save all beings. Here the practices are melded into one -- bringing freedom into our life.
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