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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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1:01

Falling in Love

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/04/22

So often, when someone says they’ve fallen in love, they don’t yet realize ….what they’re really feeling is their own light, mirrored back to them.The one they love becomes a kind of sacred surface, a reflection that stirs the deep well inside. But the warmth, the beauty, that expansive opening of the heart ….. it’s their own essence rising to meet them.Love doesn’t come from the other. It’s not something granted or given. It’s what we are.The beloved simply makes it visible.And when we see that

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1:35

ADDICTION IS INSATIABLE

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/04/21

Addiction is insatiable It is the endless reaching for something just out of grasp —the next moment, the next hit, the next comfort. It is a hunger that does not rest, not because the object of desire is so sweet, but because the soul is aching for something it cannot name.In its own way, addiction is infinity in motion. It mimics the boundless — but not the true infinite, the peaceful, open vastness of being. Instead, it reflects a distorted echo of it: a restless infinity, without center, without

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4:01

FIERCENESS

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/04/20

Fiеrcеnеss is nоt the samе аs ragе. It’s anger, yеs …. but anger thаt hаs remembered lovе.It’s the sharр edge of truth thаt рrotects what is sacred. The flame thаt refuses to let harm gо unchallenged. The voice thаt rises nоt to destroy, but to defend what mattеrs.Fiеrcеnеss is the heart on fire with compаssion …..unwilling to stаy silent in the face of injustice, unwilling to turn away when something prеcious is at risk.It is lovе, stаnding its ground.Nigel Lott teaandzen.org Get full access to Tea

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3:35

SACRED RETURN - A Reflection

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/04/13

There comes a moment, amid the depths of suffering, when something within me begins to soften. The resistance that once gripped so tightly starts to release….not because the suffering has disappeared, but because I begin to remember something far deeper than the travail itself.For years, I have witnessed this rhythm within myself. When trauma resurfaces, when suffering stirs again, a wave of overwhelm often arises. Yet, in time…a quiet shift takes place. I cease to fight it. I begin to lean not into

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1:45

TRUE POWER

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/04/10

To reach into another’s life with the intent to extract, control, or cause pain is not an act of power…..it is an expression of quiet despair.It is the grief of a soul that has fallen into forgetfulness, losing its remembrance of the Infinite within, and so reaches outward, grasping for fragments of light in another’s field.Believing itself starved of energy….of love…..it attempts to feed upon what it perceives to be missing. But this is the great illusion: that love can be taken, that radiance can

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4:36

Remembering Bob

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/04/07

It has been one year since Bob stepped beyond the veil. Not into absence, but into mystery. Not into silence, but into the deeper music that only the heart can hear.Those who walk the earth with quiet wisdom often leave behind more than memories…..they leave imprints of the eternal. Bob was such a soul. Gentle in presence, rooted in truth, and touched by something beyond this world.Though his body is no longer among us, the soul does not vanish. It unfolds. It expands. It watches and walks with us

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3:58

CONTEMPLATION

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/03/30

Love is the breath of the soul, the eternal current that flows through us, guiding us home. When we root ourselves in Love….pure, unconditional, infinite….we become vessels for creation, and everything we touch begins to reflect that light.Nigel Lott teaandzen.org Get full access to Tea and Zen - Meditation Sans Frontieres at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe

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1:01

THE MORNING POEM

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/03/23

WaitingThe song I came to singremains unsung to this day.I have spent my days in stringingand in unstringing my instrument.The time has not come true,the words have not been rightly set;only there is the agonyof wishing in my heart…..I have not seen his face,nor have I listened to his voice;only I have heard his gentle footstepsfrom the road before my house…..But the lamp has not been litand I cannot ask him into my house;I live in the hope of meeting with him;but this meeting is not

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8:53

A SACRED MOMENT

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/02/24

There is a sacred moment in every journey when the search must come to rest. It is only in this stillness, this quiet surrender, at that moment that we can open ourselves to the sacred forces at work around us.In letting go of our constant striving, we make space for the very thing we’ve longed for, to reveal itself. It’s not found through effort or desire, but through embracing the silence within. When we stop seeking, we can receive. The universe, or whatever higher power you believe in, speaks

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2:30

LET GO LET LOVE

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/02/24

“We cannot rationalize our trauma out of existence. We can only release it, by feeling it fully, by crying it out, by letting the energy return to the flow. Like a baby, we must cry out, not just when the need arises, but whenever we are called to release the shadow that clouds our heart. The key to healing is not in the mind’s attempts to make sense of it all, but in the soul’s call to let go, to return to love.” Nigel Lott teaandzen.org Get full access to Tea and Zen - Meditation Sans Frontieres

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5:07

COURAGE-HOPE-FAITH

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/02/23

Even amidst chaos, dissonance, and the shadows that occasionally wrap around me, a deeper truth begins to unfurl. Simultaneously, the alchemy of existence, of all truth reveals itself….LOVEThis is my faith. My hope.It has grown from the depths of experience, forged through a journey of pain and darkness I never thought I could survive—pain that surged like a storm at times, a wound so deep it felt as though it would never heal. But it was never about the why of the pain. The reason didn’t matter

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1:23

A PRAYER AND BLESSING

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/02/19

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3:27

SILENCE

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/02/17

“A Day of SilenceCan be a pilgrimage in itself.A Day of SilenceCan help you listenTo the Soul playIt’s marvelous lute and drum.Is not most talkingA crazed defense of a crumbling fort?I thought we came hereTo surrender in Silence,To yield to Light and Happiness,To Dance within,In celebration of Love's Victory”Hafiz.teaandzen.org Get full access to Tea and Zen - Meditation Sans Frontieres at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe

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0:23

HUMILITY

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/02/16

Best to sit still with humility; dumbfounded by a profound truth, than to stand with pride believing your knowledge is all there is to know….Hafezteaandzen.org Get full access to Tea and Zen - Meditation Sans Frontieres at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe

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5:36

SERVICE AS SACRED UNION

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/02/16

When we open our hearts in service to another sentient being, we are not merely performing a worldly action, but participating in a divine act of spiritual connection. Through service, we are lifted beyond our perceived duality, recognizing the One that has always been present, beyond our imagined separateness. The moment we offer ourselves in service, we surrender to a higher calling…..one that invites us to transcend the illusion of separation and merge with the boundless love at the core of all

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2:10

MEHER BABA

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/02/16

Love is the fountainof life-giving water.No one and no thing can live without love.This expression varies according to the capacity of the receiver and the giver,and in its highest form,love is divinity.To love is to live.You cannot really live without love.The omnipotent laws of nature have this power in its divine potency pervading the universe.The right to strike at the chord of love only belongs to the brave and sturdy at heart.Essentially, love is self-communicative.Those who do not have it

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2:13

ANYTHING NOT ROOTED IN THE SOIL OF LOVE FLOWERS NOT.

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/02/11

A sacred truth imparted to me many years ago by my then principal teacher, my guru…Yogiraj Sat Gurunath Siddanath… among the many priceless gifts he bestowed upon me, this one remains etched in my heart:"Anything not rooted in the soil of love, flowers not."This simple yet profound message speaks to the very essence of life. Any thought, word, or action not anchored in love from its very inception cannot truly bloom. It cannot endure. It is destined to fail because it is not aligned with the most

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3:53

Chasing Shadows

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/02/09

The pursuit of wealth, though often celebrated, is but a fleeting illusion, a mirage that tempts the soul but never truly quenches its thirst. No matter how much we acquire, no matter how many riches we accumulate, there is always a gnawing emptiness that lingers within us, whispering that something is missing. And why? Because we do not truly know what "enough" is. In our blind chase for more, we fail to recognize that what we seek can never be found in material things.At the heart of this

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3:19

ENERGY IN MOTION

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/02/06

There is an aspect of suffering that stems from the deep-rooted tendency to rationalize our pain. When we experience hurt or trauma, we seek to make sense of it in the mind—creating stories that help us fit the pieces together. The ego, in its wisdom, attempts to explain and categorize our wounds, believing that if it can understand the cause, the pain will dissolve. But this is an illusion. The truth is that the pain, the resonance of the experience, lingers far beyond the reach of reason. It is

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6:43

MANY HEARTS - ONE LOVE

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/02/04

"In serving the heart of another, we serve the heart within us and, the one love that connects us all...simply nothing therefore is left undone."Nigel Lott teaandzen.org Get full access to Tea and Zen - Meditation Sans Frontieres at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe

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