TEA AND ZEN -  THREADS

TEA AND ZEN - THREADS

byNigel Lott

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There are moments when words arise not from thought, but from presence when the silence speaks, and the heart listens. Welcome to Letters from the Threshold, a contemplative audio offering from Meditation Sans Frontieres a sanctuary of presence, remembrance, and the healing beauty of stillness, drawn from the well of lived experience, grief, love, and the sacred technologies of being. Nigel Lott....nigel@teaandzen.org

Episodes(40 episodes)

TEA AND ZEN -  THREADS

What Moves 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                                                                                                                                                                   DONATE
Published: Feb 4, 2026Duration: 0:46
Love Notes XXXII

E129 - Love Notes XXXII

May you know a Love stripped of all conditions—love beyond shape, beyond time, beyond fear. 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 threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel  TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY                                                                                                                                                                   DONATE
Published: Feb 4, 2026Duration: 2:00
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E128 - A Benediction Beyond Time

May you know a Love stripped of all conditions—love beyond shape, beyond time, beyond fear. 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 threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel  TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY                                                                                                                                                                   DONATE
Published: Feb 4, 2026Duration: 2:00
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Walking Each Orher Home

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
Published: Feb 4, 2026Duration: 1:28
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E125 - Love Notes XXXI

We are taught to keep the mind open. But it is the heart that opens the way.  When we fall into the heart’s vastness, knowledge loosens into knowing, information ripens into wisdom What once lived as thought reveals itself as truth. There, at the center of being, that truth is found not as an idea, but as Love remembering itself. 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...
Published: Feb 2, 2026Duration: 4:06
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E124 - Boundaries

There comes a moment when love must learn to stand. Not harder. Not colder. But clearer. For love does not mean being a dumping ground. Presence does not mean self-erasure. And compassion does not mean silence in the face of harm 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 threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel  TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY                                                                                                                                                                   DONATE
Published: Feb 1, 2026Duration: 5:32
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E122 - The Inner Work That Changes The World

The most powerful work we can do right now is inward. When we bring our own fear and shadow into the light and choose love instead, we don’t just heal ourselves—we alter the field we all share, making it possible for others to open, remember, and return home to truth. 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
Published: Jan 31, 2026Duration: 4:51
The Great Mystery

E120 - The Great Mystery

In time, one way or another, everything is drawn back to Love — not by force or decree, but by a deeper intelligence at work within life itself. What drifts out of alignment cannot remain there forever. 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 threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel  TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY                                                                                                                                                                   DONATE
Published: Jan 30, 2026Duration: 4:36
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E118 - The Nature of Falling In Love

What we call falling in love is not losing ourselves in another, but remembering the Love that has always lived within us. In that sacred opening, we don’t fall — we awaken. 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
Published: Jan 27, 2026Duration: 3:20
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E116 - Each Breath Arrives Only Once

Life is sacred beyond measure. To those who harm others — may remembrance of this truth soften the heart, and compassion rise where cruelty once lived. 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 threshold, offerings from the edge of stillness. Nigel  TEA AND ZEN - MAIN LIBRARY                                                                                                                                                                   DONATE
Published: Jan 25, 2026Duration: 2:39
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A Contemplation and Prayer on Hope

Hope is the strength to meet the present, held in love beyond time and fear. 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
Published: Jan 25, 2026Duration: 1:44
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E112 - A Meditation For World Peace

In a world that feels fractured and loud, this meditation offers a place to rest. Not by turning away from suffering, but by meeting it with an open heart. Through gentle attention, widening compassion, and a simple prayer of peace, we remember that healing does not begin elsewhere — it begins within us, and moves outward through love. 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 ...
Published: Jan 24, 2026Duration: 5:21
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E110 - Love Notes XXX

"Love is not a doing—it is a consent to be undone" Nigel Lott teaandzen.org SUPPORT THE SANCTUARY   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 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 a whisper calls you home, you are not broken you are be...
Published: Jan 23, 2026Duration: 3:11
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A Blessing

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
Published: Jan 21, 2026Duration: 0:34
Love Notes XXIX

E107 - Love Notes XXIX

No is a complete sentence. It requires no explanation, no justification, and no defense. When spoken clearly and simply, it stands on its own, honoring both your boundary and your integrity. Repeating no — or softening it with excess words — often arises from the urge to be understood, liked, or forgiven. Yet clarity needs no reinforcement. A single, honest no is enough. When allowed to stand, it teaches both us and others to respect the quiet authority of truth. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org SUPPORT THE SANCTUARY Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Register...
Published: Jan 21, 2026Duration: 2:59
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When Grief Has Done its Work

There comes a moment in grief when the pain has nowhere left to go—not because it has been resolved, but because it has reached the far edge of what the heart can bear. In that quiet threshold, grief loosens its hold on time and turns inward, softening into presence. What remains is not absence, but a love that has outgrown form—no longer reaching, no longer aching, simply resting in what is. This is not consolation, but recognition: that at the end of grief’s long journey, love is found waiting, vast and unbroken. In the quiet between heartbeats a whis...
Published: Jan 21, 2026Duration: 6:56
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E104 - A Meditation For Troubled Times

In troubled times, this gentle meditation offers a place to rest without fixing or forcing. It invites you to meet fear, grief, or numbness with quiet permission, to remember a steady light within that does not argue with the dark—only remains. A brief return to breath, presence, and the simple truth that even now, love has not withdrawn. 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 threshold, offerings from the edge of st...
Published: Jan 19, 2026Duration: 4:39
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E102 - Love Notes XXVIII

You are love, no matter what — love manifest in this life, and for eternity. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org DONATE Tea & Zen exists to offer quiet refuge in a world that rarely pauses. Your donation supports a living sanctuary devoted to presence, healing, and remembrance—freely shared with those who are seeking rest, clarity, or companionship at life’s thresholds.   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 th...
Published: Jan 16, 2026Duration: 5:35
The Eternal Presence

E101 - The Eternal Presence

Presence is another name for love. Not the love that reaches or claims, but the love that stays. The love that does not move toward anything because it has already arrived. When you are fully here— without agenda, without defense, without grasping— nothing is missing. Nothing needs improvement. In that quiet fullness, love is no longer a feeling. It is the atmosphere. Presence is love after it has forgotten how to leave. 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, offe...
Published: Jan 14, 2026Duration: 5:32
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E99 - Renee Nicole Good

Do not let this death pass through you as news. Let it pass through you as a bell. Let it ring until you can no longer tolerate a world built on fear. Let it ring until love becomes policy. Let it ring until every uniform remembers the human face. Nigel Lott www.teaandzen.org Meditation Sans Frontieres 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 Tea & Zen exists to offer quiet refuge in a world that rarely pauses. Your donation supports a living...
Published: Jan 11, 2026Duration: 3:08