Mel Ash

Mel Ash is a Zen teacher, writer, artist, and performer with a lifelong passion for transformative experience and cultural change. Previously authorized as a Dharma Teacher in the Kwan Um School of Zen, he left this tradition to join the Unitarian Church. Mel Ash continues to teach workshops nationally on Zen, Beat spirituality, and alternative psychology.

Authored Books

• The Zen of Recovery (Tarcher, 1993) (ISBN 0-87477-706-2)
• Shaving the Inside of Your Skull: Crazy Wisdom for Discovering Who You Really Are (Tarcher, 1997) (ISBN 0-87477-841-7)
• Beat spirit : the way of the beat writers as a living experience : an interactive workbook (Tarcher, 1997) (ISBN 0-87477-880-8)

External links

• Mel Ash Official Site
• Kwan Um School of Zen

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