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CONTEMPLATION

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.Buddha.Love You….. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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GIVE IN TO JOY

In the midst of it all joy does exist at the center of life, beyond all suffering and travail. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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CONTEMPLATION ON SILENCE

You may have noticed that I prefer to communicate from my heart to yours through music. The resonance and tone of the music conveys what I want to say.We all respond to the tone of what is being said primarily rather than the actual words. A mother might say to her teenage daughter, don’t speak to me in that tone, she is reacting to the resonance, more deeply than words by themselves could possibly convey.So I tend to struggle with words though I hope to get better at writing, for some reason they seem to dilute for me my original hearts intent and purpose.I am however going to practice writing more…in the meantime I hope the music and the poems I send to you resonate in all the good places and warm your hearts and raise the spirit.I could say that Love is best experienced from within silence though it is surely there amongst all the noise….. so rest awhile each day in silence, in Love.Language, by its nature, deceives. Cloaks the truth in darkness.. rather than illuminate it." "Truth," said the wise old man, "lives only in silence." Source UnknownIt is in the silence within, meeting the silence without......in that space, out of time....that all truth is to be found....beyond even a whisper. Nigel Lott.  It is in the nothing that the everything is found….Nigel LottMusic ‘I Can See You Levitating’ Hanna Lindgren Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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CONTEMPLATION ON THE PAST

Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,Break all our teacup talk of God.If you had the courage andCould give the Beloved His choice, some nights,He would just drag you around the roomBy your hair,Ripping from your grip all those toys in the worldThat bring you no joy.Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetlyAnd wants to rip to shredsAll your erroneous notions of truthThat make you fight within yourself, dear one,And with others,Causing the world to weepOn too many fine days.God wants to manhandle us,Lock us inside of a tiny room with HimselfAnd practice His dropkick.The Beloved sometimes wantsTo do us a great favor:Hold us upside downAnd shake all the nonsense out.But when we hearHe is in such a “playful drunken mood”Most everyone I knowQuickly packs their bags and hightails itOut of town.‘Let Her Go’ Amaranth Cove Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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POEMS, QUOTES AND PARABLES

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HOME AT LAST

“In serving the heart of another we serve the heart within us and the One Love that connects all, simply nothing therefore is left undone.” Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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LOVE IS

Long may your awareness of love and its power abide within you, its undying beauty always to remain. If you should forget its presence in you, however in times of trial and tribulation do not worry, for it will never forget you, its truth forever your guide and friend. Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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POEMS AND PARABLES

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CONTEMPLATION ON STARDUST

Being that our atoms in our body were created at the start of our universe during the Big Bang. So if you look at it this way, then you’re about 13.7 billion years old.But your body also has heavier elements like copper and zinc. These atoms were created in the dying stage of an exploding star called a supernova.These elements were flung into space as dust and gas (stardust). Eventually, they coalesced to become part of a new forming solar system and our planet Earth.Because you are made from matter from the Earth, you are made of stardust from old supernovas. So turns out, you are bits and pieces of star and cosmic dust. E.H. SPRINKLE IT ALL AROUND THEN IN THE NAME OF LOVE. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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POEM, PRAYER ON AWAKENING

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