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TEA AND ZEN - THREADS

Threads is a contemplative audio offering from Meditation Sans Frontières, a sanctuary devoted to presence, remembrance, and the quiet radiance of being. These transmissions arise from lived experience — from grief that has softened into wisdom, from love that refuses to diminish, and from the sacred interior technologies of stillness and relational presence. Nigel Lott....nigel@teaandzen.org

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2:57

The Poem That God Whispered To Rumi

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/04/21

Didn’t I tell you—do not go there? For I am your friend in this mirage of fading shadows. I am life without end. Even if you run in anger for a hundred thousand years, you will return to Me at last— I am where the path clears. Didn’t I tell you? I am the Ocean, and you are the fish. Do not go to the dry land— I am the only water you could wish. Didn’t I tell you? Do not be fooled by the world’s design. I am the Painter of your joy, the Artist of the divine. Didn’t I tell you? Do not fly like a

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3:31

A Twinkle and A Blink

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/04/20

Before there were worlds, before time found its rhythm, before even silence knew itself as silence, there was a kind of stillness so complete it did not yet call itself God. And within that stillness— not separate from it, not other than it— there was a shimmer. A twinkle. Not yet creation, not yet intention, just the faintest glimmer of possibility in the infinite. We were there. Not as bodies, not as names, not as stories waiting to unfold— but as that glimmer itself, held effortlessly in the

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3:19

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/04/18

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again

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3:49

Love Notes XXIX

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/04/16

Words can point. But silence… IS. A simple pointing—toward what cannot be spoken. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org DONATE Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 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 edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY

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8:54

The Longing That Cannot Be Named

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/04/04

There are moments when something begins to move quietly within us—not loud, not urgent, not even clear. It doesn’t arrive as a thought or a decision. It comes more like a feeling, a soft echo from somewhere we cannot quite locate.It is not for anything in particular. Not for an object. Not for a person. Not even for a place we can return to. It is simply… a longing. In the presence of longing, the mind begins its quiet reaching, wanting to place it somewhere, to name it, to know what it is for. It

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4:48

Nervous System Reset Meditation

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/04/02

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 edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY DONATE

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3:22

Held - A Sacred Lullaby

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/04/02

Rest now, beloved, the night need not explain itself. Even the dark is carried in a deeper light. Nothing you’ve been through has taken you from this— the quiet place where you are still held. Lay down the questions, let them fall like leaves. There is a silence beneath them that has never been disturbed. You are not outside of love. You have never wandered that far. Even here… especially here… you are gathered in. So soften, like the tide returning to sea. No edge to defend, no ground to

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4:08

To Thine Own Self Be True

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/03/09

Standing in our integrity may cost us approval, but it reveals something far more enduring: the love that was always there.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 edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY

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4:08

To Thine Own Self Be True

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/03/08

Standing in our integrity may cost us approval, but it reveals something far more enduring: the love that was always there Nigel Lott teaandzen.org DONATE Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 Your support sustains this healing space, the teachings, meditations, and healing transmissions — all offered freely to anyone who needs them. Together we keep a living field of love, service, and presence alive in the world. In the quiet between heartbeats

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2:41

A Lament for The Children- and For Us

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/03/01

May we remember that every child is our child.May the lost be gathered into light. May the living remember how to care. 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 edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY

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4:41

Seventy Seven

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/02/27

At seventy-seven, I feel less like I am ending and more like I am ripening — softer in body, clearer in heart, and more available than ever to let love move through me in service. Nigel — seventy-seven, still here, still serving. Nigel Lott Born February 27th 1949 teaandzen.org Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 Your support sustains this sanctuary. Tending the interior spaces, its garden, and the quiet they hold, the teachings, meditations, and

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2:06

Nearer Than Your Own Breath

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/02/26

Remember: Love is not distant. It surrounds you as a living field and rests within you as your deepest essence. Every breath is precious, every moment alive with meaning. Do not postpone the heart. Love now. Surrender inward. For Love is the source, the substance, and the home of all that is — nearer than your own breath. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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

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3:18

The Dark Night of Becoming : Psalms of The Cave

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/02/24

The dark night is not a single passage, but a rhythm. When even the old sacreds fall silent, something vaster begins to stir. 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 edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY

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3:18

On the Nature of Things

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/01/05

The eternal truth abides in all things. Even the atom bears witness— to love taking form.Nigel Lott teaandzen.org-library DONATE Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 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 edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY

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5:32

Love Notes XXIV

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2026/01/05

Human life cannot be reduced to psychology, doctrine, practice, or service. It unfolds across silence, love, suffering, creativity, lineage, and care - and none of it is optional. Nigel Lott Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 DONATE 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 edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND

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3:25

Love Notes XVII

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/12/13

Everyone has a story and anyone can lose their way, in Love we remember our way back home.Nigel Lott teaandzen.org - library meditationsansfrontieres.com 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 edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY

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3:06

Love Notes XVI

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/12/13

May All Love Become You Nigel Lott - teaandzen.org meditationsansfrontieres.com - sanctuary teaandzen-threads.podbean.com DONATE Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 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 edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY

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3:08

Love Notes XIV

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/12/06

Choose Love.Again and again. Until there is nothing left but Love choosing itself through you. 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 edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY

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5:55

Choosing Love - The Original Wound and the Long...

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/12/06

This episode explores the universal wound of separation we carry from birth—the sense that love is lost outside ourselves—and how it shapes our suffering and search for belonging. Through reflection and insight, it points to a simple but profound shift: recognizing that love has always been within, and choosing to live from that remembering until love chooses itself through us. In the quiet between heartbeats a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are becoming. These threads of silence and

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1:04

Out Beyond Right and Wrong: A Field of Meeting

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS ·

2025/12/05

This episode reflects on Rumi's poem and imagines a place beyond right and wrong where souls meet. Through gentle, poetic conversation, listeners are invited to leave behind judgment and connect in silence beyond words. 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 edge of stillness. Nigel TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY

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