In Together Under One Roof, Lin Jensen turns his keen eye and powerful prose
explicitly to the teachings of the Buddha, to traditional Zen stories, and to
the practices of meditation and compassion — as well as the intricacies of
everyday language and the natural world, truth, and beauty, family, and the
myriad ways our simplest actions affect our whole lives. His previous two works,
memoirs of growing up and growing old and of the hard-won but gentle wisdom
gained in his daily public meditations for peace, were both critical successes
earning a special place in readers' hearts. This book takes up symphonic
variations on one main