Not Quite Zen

Anne Wayman
4 min readOct 4, 2021
Buddhist hand mudra
Image by Bhikku Amitha from Pixabay

Although I’ve been a member of one or another 12 Step group for ages, it took me moving to a Zen Center to realize I actually knew something about meditating after all.

The 11th Step of the twelve is ‘Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God.’ I had all sorts of fears about meditation, most of which I wasn’t aware of until I quit fighting it. Probably the biggest stumbling block…

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Anne Wayman

Writer, life and writing coach, book ghostwriter, Grandmother, Buddhist. Liberal who listens to the other side, political activist-www.DemocracyCounts.org