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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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4:36

Sacred Collection of Remembrance

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/10/03

Over the years, as I moved through and out of the darkness within, I began to reconnect with the light and love that had waited patiently for my return. In those moments of stillness and opening, certain “downloads” would simply appear—dropping gently into my consciousness.My students, clients, patients at the time affectionately called them Nigel’isms. I never felt they were mine; rather, I experienced myself as a conduit through which they flowed. I have edited, refined them, gathered many of

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5:03

Even in Pain, Love remains

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/10/03

Pain comes to all of us. It arrives in many forms—grief, loneliness, the ache of betrayal, the silent exhaustion of the body, the bewilderment of the heart. At times it seems to consume everything, covering over the light, leaving us believing that love itself has gone. Yet this is never truly so. Even in pain, love remains. Love is not fragile, though we often think it so. Love is not the fleeting warmth of good days, nor is it the absence of struggle. Love is the current that underlies all life

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3:56

From Seeker to Sanctuary

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/09/29

No longer the seeker. There comes a moment, quiet, unnoticed by the world, when the seeker begins to fall away, not because it failed, but because it brought you to the one place it could never touch, home, home. For so long the search was sacred. It gave shape to the longing. It kept the heart alive in dark seasons, seeking truth, seeking healing, seeking love. It was all the same ancient ache, to return to something vast, benevolent, and real. But the seeker must eventually come to rest, not in

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1:37

Armored Hearts: The Hidden Grief Behind Arrogance

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/09/19

This episode explores how arrogance and bullying are protective defenses rooted in deep inner fragility and grief.It explains that such behaviors are not signs of strength but fear-based constructions formed to survive loss, and invites listeners to recognize the pain beneath the posture while holding people accountable. In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and sound are letters from the threshold, offerings from the

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5:12

Meditation Return to the hearts truth

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/09/15

Begin in stillness. Let the body rest. Let the breath be soft. Let the defenses loosen, just enough to listen. There is a place inside you that has never left the garden. It is not wounded. It is not confused. It is not afraid. It waits, patiently, beneath every story. Beneath every betrayal of yourself. Beneath the hiding, the pleasing, the pushing, the pretending. This place — this heart’s truth — does not shout. It does not force. It whispers. And when you stop, truly stop, it sings. Let yourself

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2:21

The Truth of Any Matter

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/09/15

“I am not concerned with what you do or how you do it. Let everything be done with love and compassion. Without this root, your actions cannot bear fruit, for they cannot embody the truth of any matter.” Nigel Lott teaandzen.org “If anything you’ve read, heard, or felt here has opened your heart, brought comfort, or reminded you of what is sacred, please consider supporting this work with a donation.” DONATE Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 In the

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3:28

There Is A Joy

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/09/12

There is a joy that leaves no trace of harm. No wounded heart behind it.No silence broken to serve it. It asks nothing, takes nothing, and yet blesses everything it touches. But there’s another kind — a joy that comes at the expense of another’s pain. That’s not joy, beloved. It’s only the costume joy wears when it forgets who it is. A flicker pretending to be flame. True joy doesn’t borrow. It arrives as a gift — whole, radiant, and already complete. It’s not mine or yours, not earned or withheld

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2:40

On Love

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/09/10

People have very different views and ideas of the word Love, of what it means to them...to numerous to count, this is what I have come to understand it means to me. When I speak of Love, I am not speaking of romance, nor of preference, nor of the fleeting warmth of affection. I am speaking of the deepest force in the universe — the field in which all things arise, dissolve, and are made whole again. Love is not a feeling, though it may move through our feelings. Love is not an idea, though we may

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3:11

Words from the other side of silence

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/09/08

In answer to the question is there anything that can be conveyed from the other side of silence to the earth and its current state of madness? The world is not lost, though it feels shattered. What you call madness is the breaking open of what has long been hidden—fear, greed, the old architectures of separation. They are collapsing because they can no longer hold. Beneath the noise, there is a deeper current moving—quiet, patient, steady. Love has not left. Presence has not weakened. The heart of

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2:03

The Heart is The New Ground

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/09/06

I have discovered that resistance is not my enemy. It has never truly been against me. What I call resistance is a signal, an old trembling that appears when I am standing at the edge of new ground. It comes wrapped in fog, in hesitation, in the old stories that whisper, “not yet, not good enough, not safe.” But I see it differently now. Resistance is loudest when the crossing is near. It rises not because I am far away, but because I am standing at the threshold. It is the last cry of the old

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3:53

The Recognition of Love

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/09/03

Everywhere we look, life is unfolding in countless forms. From the smallest seed breaking open beneath the soil, to the vast turning of the stars above, creation is a living whole. Human life, the wider web of animals and plants, and even the dimensions of being we cannot see — all are expressions of the same Source.At its heart, creation is not random or mechanical. It is the manifestation of love and light taking form. Each living being, each aspect of existence, is a doorway through which this

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3:01

A Reflection On Rest And Surrender

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/08/31

There is no shame in laying down the sword.Not every path is meant to be fought for. Sometimes the deeper wisdom is to let the stream flow softly around the stone — To rest this weary heart awhile, And trust that life will bring the next wave in its own time. I am enough. The path is unfolding — still and always. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 33

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4:17

Self-Care as a Sacred Act of Remembering

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/08/29

SELF-CARE AS A SACRED ACT OF REMEMBERING A presence-centered reflection on what self-care truly means— not as indulgence, but as a sacred act of return. A Threshold of Return Let us begin not in speech, but in stillness. A single breath… A quiet coming home. Let the room soften. Let the body arrive. We hear the phrase often now: “self-care.” It shows up on the lips of influencers, in wellness blogs, in the crisp packages of products meant to soothe. But the truth is: Self-care is

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3:40

The Sacred Balance: Truth, Boundaries, and Love

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/08/26

In a world veiled by illusion and noise……where confusion masquerades as clarity and conflict often drowns out meaning—truth remains a light that awakens the soul. Yet when truth is delivered without care or held without compassion, it can wound more than it heals. For truth to become a vehicle of transformation, it must be carried gently…..contained within spiritual boundaries that shield our inner life, and infused with the harmonizing presence of love.Those who have walked the mystical path

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2:25

Where Change Truly Begins

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/08/26

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

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7:16

Guided Meditation on The Geometry of Resistance and...

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/08/25

Begin by finding a quiet space. Sit or lie down comfortably. Let your eyes gently close. Take a slow breath in through your nose, and exhale softly through your mouth. Let your body begin to settle, like a feather drifting to the earth. Again, breathe in… and breathe out. Feel the ground beneath you — not just as surface, but as presence. Let it hold you like an ancient friend. Beneath you lies a living, breathing earth that has witnessed storms and stars, oceans and fire. You are resting upon

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11:23

Meditation on The ONE Who Beats the Heart.

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/08/22

The One Who Beats the HeartA guided meditation for those listening beyond the breath.Let the body be still. Let the breath soften. And for a moment… do nothing at all. Let the silence rise up from beneath you.Let it settle around your shoulders, like a robe made of dusk. Feel your heart. Not with your hand — but with your awareness.With your presence. As if listening to something ancient and holy within the cave of your chest. Let this truth return: I do not beat this heart.It beats within me — as

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2:22

Juniper

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/08/19

Venus—the morning star—radiates deep feminine wisdom. In mystical cosmologies, she is linked to Sacred Wisdom, that births the world through Love. Embodying the quiet power of the awakened heart, the beauty that heals, and the love that endures.Little one, Breath of the Sacred—You came through the veil so gently, not new, but familiar— as if you’d always been here, resting in the silence between heartbeats, waiting for the world to soften enough to feel you.May the earth hold you with tenderness,

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4:36

Presence-Centered Work at the Edge.

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/08/18

In the hospital, where I volunteer, there are people with no visitors, no family, no hand to hold at the end. I sit with them in their final hours. By the time I’m called, it’s usually their final days — sometimes only hours.They can no longer speak. Some are already far away — their breath faint, their eyes dim, the body slowly letting go. I don’t come to fix or to speak.I come to be there. This isn’t ministry. It isn’t counseling. It’s not even prayer in the usual way. It’s soul to soul, spirit to

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4:39

THE KINGDOM OF THE OPEN HEART

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/07/30

Before heaven was imagined as a place beyond the stars, it was known as something much closer — a quiet realm within the heart, waiting for a soft return.In this reflection, we follow the ancient words of Jesus not as doctrine, but as invitation:To become like children. To bow with humility. To knock gently — and discover the kingdom not far away, but within every breath you take, and when breath you take no more.Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the

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