Lin Jensen recounts his experience with the ancient Zen practice of wall sitting: what is it about a wall that helps penetrate consciousness?
What a Wall Teaches – Lin Jensen on Zen meditation’s enduring lesson

Author and Zen teacher Lin Jensen tells how meditation’s surprising first lesson still resonates with him.
Mighty or Not, We All Fall Down
“In all that goes down,” writes Lin Jensen, “there lives a going up. This is reassuring when you’re witnessing the end of something.”
Stand By Me
Lin Jensen opens his heart to a schoolyard bully and learns that there isn’t much hope for any of us when some of us are left out.
Lin Jensen on the rising temperature of planet earth
Lin Jensen says the rising temperature of the earth is a fever, symptomatic of a pathological infection: the pandemic of human greed.
The Ten Hearts of an Earthworm
They have five pairs of tiny beating hearts. But what really makes earthworms precious, says Lin Jensen, is simply that they exist.
The Walls Come Tumbling Down
When a debilitating illness forces him to give up the home he built, Lin Jensen realizes he must let go of his ideas about who he is and what he can do.