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TEA AND ZEN - THREADS

There are moments when words arise not from thought, but from presence when the silence speaks, and the heart listens. Welcome to Letters from the Threshold, a contemplative audio offering from Meditation Sans Frontieres a sanctuary of presence, remembrance, and the healing beauty of stillness, drawn from the well of lived experience, grief, love, and the sacred technologies of being. Nigel Lott....nigel@teaandzen.org

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3:03

THREADS OF ONE HEART

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/07/28

“How we move through the world—how we think, feel, love, and remember—is not separate from the great unfolding. This piece explores the quiet truth that individual healing is never just personal; it is a sacred participation in the collective restoration of light.What we discover in the sanctuary of our own heart ripples outward, influencing the balance of all things. And in this sacred reciprocity, we become bearers of remembrance—of the love that holds all things together, even when veiled by

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7:53

A LOVING KINDNESS MEDITATION

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/07/17

A Soft Return to the HeartThis meditation is a quiet invitation to return—to the tenderness that lives beneath all defenses, to the love that asks for nothing, to the part of you that still wishes others well, even after all you’ve been through.Loving-kindness is not performance. It is remembrance. A reawakening of the sacred ache to bless what lives—within and around us.Begin gently. There is no need to force. Let the phrases rise like prayer, spoken not to change anything, but to open

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15:38

Guided Forgiveness Meditation

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/07/13

One of the first thresholds on the path of liberation is the deepening of forgiveness.It is a quiet expansion into the inner landscape of loving kindness — not as sentiment, but as practice. Forgiveness softens the road beneath our feet, making it walkable again. It releases us from the hardened grip of resentments born from colliding desires — within relationships, yes, but also within the conflicted terrain of the self. It is the great unwinding, the gentle resolution of opposites. As Stephen

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5:02

ETHOS

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/07/11

I have walked through fire more than once. Through grief, addiction, illness, and the long unraveling of old identities. I have lived the truth that healing is not a destination, but a devotion — a returning, again and again, to what is real, to what is tender, to what is whole underneath the fractures.For so many decades my life has been shaped by a vow — not in words, but in presence. A vow to sit with suffering. To bear witness. To not turn away, in the lonely hours of my own unraveling, even

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5:16

The Inner Tribe

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/07/08

There are those of us who have never quite fit. Not for lack of trying. Not because we were aloof, or too sensitive, or too proud. But because we were listening to something deeper.Something beneath the noise of culture, the cadence of norms. A frequency not everyone hears. Even among our closest companions, we’ve often felt just slightly elsewhere—as if looking out through the same eyes, but seeing a different sky.We’re the ones who pause at the edge of things. Who cry at the scent of rain. Who

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3:33

A Psalm from the Cave

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/07/06

“We often speak of the dark night of the soul as if it comes once, passes through us, and then gives way to light. But for those on the deeper path, it is not a singular event. It is a rhythm. A return. A sacred unraveling that comes in waves—each one more honest, more demanding, more luminous than the last.In this reflection, I share what it feels like to stand in one of those deeper nights, where even the old sacreds—books, music, practices—no longer hold. It is not a place of failure, but of

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3:08

LOVE IS MY FAITH

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/07/04

Love is my faith. Not belief, but a way of being.Not a doctrine I defend, but a presence I serve. It is the silence I return to, the pulse beneath every vow I’ve made.Even when the world forgets itself in fear or fury, I remember: Love is older than all of it. It is the truth I walk by, the light that does not burn out.And though I may sometimes feel alone, this Love has never once let me go.Nigel Lott teaandzen.orgIf these words have touched your heart, and you feel moved to support this space of

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5:43

One Breath, One Body, One Source

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/07/04

May all love help us remember what we have forgotten: that we are responsible to—and for—each other. Not as a burden, but as a sacred inheritance. For in truth, we are cut from the same cloth, woven of the same mysterious breath, born of the same radiant Source. What we do to one, we do to all.We move together—however slowly, however unevenly— away from the old wounds that once bound us. Away from the inner chambers of exile, where so many of us learned to live, and learned—falsely—that we were

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3:37

SPIRITUAL COMPANIONSHIP

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/07/01

I walk alongside those nearing the final steps of this life, offering quiet presence and spiritual companionship, at a local downtown hospital in Seattle to those who have no family or friends, because no one should die alone. I honor this journey as sacred—trusting the deep wisdom of the soul as it moves toward release. There is no agenda in this work, no need to fix or change what is unfolding. I come simply to be—a calm, loving presence in the midst of great mystery. At the threshold of life and

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5:45

CARRYING GOD

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/06/30

No one can keep us from carrying God Wherever we go.No one can rob His Name From our heart as we try to relinquish our fears And at last stand — Victorious.We do not have to leave him in the mosque Or church alone at night; We do not have to be jealous of tales of saints Or glorious masts, those intoxicated soulsWho can make outrageous love with the Friend. We do not have to be envious of our spirits’ ability Which can sometimes touch God in a dream.Our yearning eyes, our warm-needing bodies, Can

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3:12

A Blessing for the Journey Within

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/06/30

May God be a quiet flame in your heart,and a clear light in your understanding.May you be warmed from within,and see with the eyes of the soul.May love live you, and all truth move through you,always, and in all things.Nigel Lott teaandzen.org Get full access to Tea and Zen - Meditation Sans Frontieres at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe

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3:22

Meditation: Once Sacred, Forever Sacred — A Quantum...

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/06/24

Close your eyes. Breathe in gently… and breathe out even more gently.Let the breath return you home. And as you settle, listen—not only with your ears, but with the still, infinite field of your being. Whatever is held most sacred in your heart once… is forever held there.Because in the quantum field, nothing truly disappears. Every intention, every feeling, every sacred knowing collapses into form and lives on in potential. Energy does not vanish—it transforms, and the sacred is the most enduring

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3:55

Tea and Zen

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/06/21

You may notice that there’s no difference between free and paid subscriptions on this Substack. That’s intentional.I offer everything here — letters, reflections, poems, transmissions from the silence — to everyone, freely and fully. If a single phrase here helps someone find peace, soften their grief, or return to themselves… then it belongs to them, not behind a wall.This is a sanctuary, not a business.A place of quiet offering, not transaction.For those who choose the paid option, I hold that as

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3:47

What Can I Do to Bring Peace?

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/06/21

You may ask yourself,What can I possibly do to bring peace to this troubled world?The greatest thing—maybe the only lasting thing—is to begin within.To do the quiet, grace filled work of surrendering and softening,of meeting the darkness that has gathered in you over time.That heaviness—those old wounds, defenses, fears—they’ve simply obscured the deeper truth of who you are.A being of love.A living thread of the Source itself.No matter how it appears on the surface,the universe is not broken.It is

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2:34

LOVE'S - GIVEN VISION

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/06/19

Vision, as I’ve come to know it, doesn’t begin with the eyes. It comes from elsewhere — from that deep, inward terrain shaped by longing, softened by sorrow, and hollowed by love’s absences.It’s not something I go looking for anymore. It arrives — unbidden — in the tender ruins. In the aftermath of what has fallen away.Grief, in its strange mercy, clears the ground. It strips away what’s false and leaves only what’s real. And it’s there, in the silence after the tears, that vision sometimes flickers

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2:18

Jalal al-Din Rumi

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/06/18

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2:08

Where Change Truly Begins

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/06/16

Knowledge can tell us what needs to change. It offers the facts, the reasons, the clarity. It can show us what’s broken—and even suggest what might be better.But knowing something… doesn’t mean we’ve changed.Real change—the kind that reshapes a life, the kind that moves us from the inside out—comes not from the mind, but from the heart.You can understand a thing a thousand times in your head and still not take a single step in your being.Because until that knowing is felt—until it becomes tender,

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3:55

HOPE

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/06/13

I HOPE this inspires.In the depths of despair, when the weight of the world seems unbearable, the concept of hope can feel distant…..perhaps like a flickering flame in a storm. Yet, from a spiritual perspective, hope is not just a fleeting emotion; it is a vital force that with courage can transcend our circumstances, a divine gift that connects us to a higher purpose.Hope, in its purest form, is not about wishful thinking or naive optimism. It is rooted in the belief that, despite appearances,

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3:36

The Field Where We Meet

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/06/12

There are words that do not merely speak,they remember.“Out beyond ideas of wrong doing and right doing,there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” RumiThis is not metaphor. This is the soul’s geography. I have stood in that field— not with my body, but with my being. It is the stillness behind all sound, the light behind all appearances. A place untouched by division, where love no longer needs a reason.“When the soul lies down in that grass,the world is too full to talk about.” RumiFor in that sacred

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4:36

No One Dies Alone: A Vigil for Antoine

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/06/11

Part of the volunteer work I do is this: on occasion I am called to sit with souls who are nearing the threshold of this life— those who are dying.They are in their final hours, and they have no family. The hospital where I volunteer is cultivating a beautiful, human policy:no one should die alone.And so, when there is someone with no family present, I go. I pull up a chair beside them. There is nothing to do, really—sometimes I may gently read softly. But mostly, I just sit. Be still. Be awake. Be

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