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EVENING CONTEMPLATION

What sound was that?I turn away, into the shaking room.What was that sound that came in on the dark?What is this maze of light it leaves us in?What is this stance we take,To turn away and then turn back?What did we hear?It was the breath we took when we first met.Listen. It is here.Harold Pinter Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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CONTEMPLATION

For the rest of your life make all that you do…..every thought word and deed……. a prayer for peace…..Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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A FORGIVENESS MEDITATION

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CONTEMPLATION

Sit as if on a lotus petal within your spiritual heart…just below the sternum. Be with the Love found there….know your true nature.“It is in the silence within, meeting the silence without......in that space, out of time....that all truth is found....beyond even a whisper.” ~ Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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FORGIVENESS

A fundamental reminder….that in the end as there was in the beginning there is only ONE of us, ONE LOVE that lays at the heart of it all and that will set you free, sets us all free…….may you find your way there now.” Nigel LottWe never put another being out of our hearts because as we do so, we put ourselves outside of our own hearts equal measure.That is to say as long as we hold resentment, a non forgiving posture toward another we are in essence keeping ourselves out from the Love and the peace that Love offers, found in the heart…..we are hurting ourselves. That anger, fear, grief that you are holding onto contaminates your own system.By-all-means…. it maybe perfectly reasonable to be angry (grief) and in some cases the only safe thing to do is to remove yourself from the presence of the person, (sometimes permanently) place or thing whose behavior hurts and is at the very least unkind. However your emotional, psychological reaction to their behavior is your own work on yourself….all-ways.We will never get out of our suffering and travail by dumping it on an-other person, place or thing. Look, its OK to be angry (anger is always ultimately a grief moment) To stay there in anger however keeps you stuck. There is no redeeming value in doing so.Our freedom from what hurts comes about by griefing the perceived loss of Love which is ultimately an illusion (just saying) that is being mirrored in the process with the other entity, person place or thing and the behavior that drives us to the anger, that is driven by fear and the underlying grief that is at the heart of the matter.Finally we come to understand that when we do the work to allow ourselves back into our own hearts and the grace on offer……that when we do do this a space opens up for the other to do the same, seemingly by osmosis…without words, any external action on our part we offer a healing to that other being we had resentment and anger toward, by our own work on ourselves.“May all sentient beings awaken to their own sense of equanimity born out of their hearts longing for peace and re-discover the one true nature that is inherent within them, within us all…..beyond all suffering and travail. There are infinite possibilities that are born of knowing that all love surrounds us all, lives within us and that all life is so very precious, there is not a moment to lose. Knowing that in the beginning, as in the end, it is....all that is or ever was or ever will be” Nigel Lott. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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THE EVENING CONTEMPLATION

"In serving the heart of another we serve the heart within us and, the one love that connects us all……. nothing, 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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THE EVENING CONTEMPLATION

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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THE EVENING CONTEMPLATION

Whatever is held most sacred in your heart once….. is forever held there…..once sacred forever sacred…..master that you are of your own soul. Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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DISCOUNTING BEHAVIOR

No-one can ever discount you without you discounting yourself. The other person is acting, speaking in a way that is hurtful and unkind but ultimately is coming up against an internal belief that is lodged within the make-up of your own system, that invariable has been there for sometime.No-one can ever discount you unless you simultaneously discount yourself. That other person is showing you a place where you have come to mistakenly believe you are unlovable, that you are not enough………the truth being that you are always lovable, always enough. So don’t hang out with people who are hurtful and unkind, (whenever you have the choice) and engage in discounting behavior….. by all means. However the psychological, emotional, and often somatic work to remove the original dynamic that drove your reaction to their behaviour (as a discount) is your own work on your-self.You are always lovable and enough………all-ways. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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THE EVENING CONTEMPLATION

In coming to the true wisdom of the heart we offer no resistance to circumstance, surrendering to it all with the utmost humility…. we come before love…..before God….wherein all questions are answered...beautifully. Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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