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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Saturday Apr 01, 2023
Saturday Apr 01, 2023
Bring your focus to the bridge of your nose and feel the air physically pass in and out over the skins surface. As you breathe in and out through the nose keep focused on the air passing over the bridge. The sensation of that quality of air passing over the tip, gently in and out. Your mind will wander here and there, thats ok. At the beginning of this practice probably quite a bit of wandering mind will take place, do not be deterred. When you notice this just bring your attention back gently but with great intent to the tip of your nose and, focus again on the sensation as the air passes over the bridge of your nose.Keep repeating this for ten minutes in the morning and ten minutes in the evening. The difference in you after a couple of weeks will be profound as to the sense of peace and equanimity experienced.A quiet mind and a silent voice gives rise to an ever present open heart and the love, wisdom and truth found there. All peace will be yours, there is nothing that you will not come to know, it is all within you…..welcome home. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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
Friday Mar 31, 2023
Friday Mar 31, 2023
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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
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
Wednesday Mar 29, 2023
There is an underpinning, a dynamic at play on planet earth, like never before and that is people reacting to the belief that there isn’t enough love for them. I don’t mean a romantic kind of love I mean the very creative force of the universe from whence we sprung and from within we are absolutely safe.We think of ourselves as so far away from that love and yet it is right here dwelling as it does within infinity itself. All sorrows and fears that lie at the root of conflict have this belief, that there isn’t enough love for me, in that whatever God means for us is at the other end of the universe and not even this one.Not true, it’s here, it's on every breath we take, and it is within the air that we breathe, permeating as it does every nook and cranny of existence, no matter what we think is happening to the contrary. Difficult to know at times for sure, an act of faith to come to know these truths, indeed it is, that a love beyond measure lays at the heart of you and every life form regardless of what form that love takes. And just to throw in an extra pearl here and say it is still present after breath you take no more, as it was before breath you took. There is always enough, you are eternally safe in love’s arms.! Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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
Monday Mar 27, 2023
Monday Mar 27, 2023
What! on earth is the point of wielding power, if not in the service of love, kindness, and compassion? to unite hearts rather than in an attempt to conquer minds? Nigel Lott Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Sunday Mar 26, 2023
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Saturday Mar 25, 2023
Saturday Mar 25, 2023
The saying goes…..all is realized in the fullness of time and that time waits for no man……given that…..all that is left then is the present moment……it was ever thus and will forever be. Nigel Lott. Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
LOKAH SAMASTHA SUKINO BHAVANTUlokah: location, realm, all universes existing now samastah: all beings sharing that same location sukhino: centered in happiness and joy, free from sufferingbhav: the divine mood or state of unified existence antu: may it be so, it must be so (antu used as an ending here transforms this mantra into a powerful pledge)Please join me in this PLEDGE…May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all.Thank you.All love be in your heart… Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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Thursday Mar 23, 2023
Thursday Mar 23, 2023
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Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
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Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Sunday Mar 19, 2023
Love doesn't hurt. thinking we are without love hurts but love doesn't hurt. Its only when we think love is not present in our lives does it hurt, (it always is present, no matter what) such is the grief of all our lives. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org Get full access to Tea and Zen - Threads at teaandzen.substack.com/subscribe
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