The Zen of Recovery by Mel Ash
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Book Reviews of The Zen of Recovery
Book Review: A New Way of Enlightenment
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is one man's journey through his recovery but takes a totally different approach. This book is Zen meets the 12 steps without a cookie cutter approach towards recovery. This book gives addicts and alcoholics a whole new way of enlightenment through their path of recovery.The Law of Sobriety: Attracting Positive Energy for a Powerful RecoveryBook Review: Zen of Recovery
Summary: 5 Stars
The Zen of Recovery is the current book that my Buddhist-12 Step gathering is studying. It arrived in excellent condition, although it was used.
Very well written.
Book Review: Not just for recovering addicts ... but all of us
Summary: 4 Stars
I am not a recovering alcoholic, victim of sexual abuse, sufferer of post-war trauma, or any other malady to which "recovery" can be applied. Nevertheless, I found Mel Ash's book to be loaded with insight which can be applied again and again to the challenges of ANYBODY'S life. Maybe everyone is "recovering" to some degree. Life just has a way of throwing challenges at us. While written from the perspective of a recovering alcoholic, this book is recommended highly for any person who simply seeks to reach a deeper meaning in life. I keep coming back to inspirational passages, such as the one where Mel describes a beautiful scene of a bird landing on the head of a Buddha statue. Then the bird craps on the statue's head. Not to worry, rain later washes it all away. Ash tells us the simple lesson: "Things happen. Things pass." Just one example of the sane and sensible insight here.Book Review: Not bad
Summary: 3 Stars
It is possible to get very gung-ho about Mel Ash's ZEN OF RECOVERY. I am not gung-ho about it, but the book does something which no other book I am aware of has achieved, made a sincere and plausible link between 12-step principles and Buddhist principles. Unfortunately, the book's Buddhism is Zen, only one of many different Buddhist paths. Thus the book lacks a certain universalism that I find unfortunate. However, it is well worth reading, if nothing else serving as a jumping-off point for investigating Buddhism (or the Buddha) as one's higher power. Any Buddhist who is in Alcoholics Anonymous or any other 12-step program is well advised to read this book. It will help one get past the bloc that I felt in 12-step programs, which in Western society are predicated upon Christianity or Judaism. ZEN OF RECOVERY reinforced in me the belief that I had a place in 12-step meetings, even though I did not believe in a God as defined in any theistic sense. Aside from the above caveats, this book is a radical step forward in the recovery movement.Book Review: not as advertised
Summary: 2 Stars
Item was not a advertised. Book paper was old. It had more markings than stated by the seller.