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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Episodes

The Morning Poem

Sunday Mar 19, 2023

Sunday Mar 19, 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

The Morning Poem

Friday Mar 17, 2023

Friday Mar 17, 2023

In not dumping our grief at being on planet earth and our sense of separation from all that is on any other life form. 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

The Evening Contemplation

Thursday Mar 16, 2023

Thursday Mar 16, 2023

The arrow needs an archer, and poetry a magician."He must hold ever in the hand of his mind the weighing scales of metre, rejecting the verse which is too short and that which is too long."His mistress, Truth, shall mount her black steed, the veil of allegory drawn across her brow."Let her shoot from beneath her eyelashes a hundred glances, challenging and victorious."Let the poet place upon her fingers the jewels of the art of many hues, adorn her with the sandal-wood and the saffron of metaphor;"The bells of alliteration like bangles upon her feet, and on her bosom the necklace of a mysterious rhythm.Add to these the hidden meaning, like eyes half seen through their lashes, that her whole body may be a perfect mystery."-"Translation of the Kilidi Afghani," by T. C. Plowden. 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

The Morning Poem

Tuesday Mar 14, 2023

Tuesday Mar 14, 2023

Love has befriended me so completely it has turned to ash and freed me of every concept and image my mind has ever known.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/teaandzen/message 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

The Morning Poem

Monday Mar 13, 2023

Monday Mar 13, 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

The Evening Contemplation

Sunday Mar 12, 2023

Sunday Mar 12, 2023

Get in a comfortable quiet place, and allow this music to resonate as a sacred utterance, a numinous sound within your spiritual heart, as a monument to peace.Peace Be. 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

The Morning Poem

Sunday Mar 12, 2023

Sunday Mar 12, 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

Insights and Parables

Saturday Mar 11, 2023

Saturday Mar 11, 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

The Morning Poem

Wednesday Mar 08, 2023

Wednesday Mar 08, 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

Evening Contemplation

Tuesday Mar 07, 2023

Tuesday Mar 07, 2023

When the sights and sounds are no longer present when the silence hangs in the air, and that quality of aloneness becomes unbearable to hold witness to any longer, hold onto truth and remember…….. love. 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

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