
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)

E98 - Love Notes XXVI
"Whether spoken by a voice or a silence, truth is recognized by its light."
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Published: Jan 10, 2026Duration: 2:59

E97 - Love Notes XXV
"Love is on every breath we take, was there before breath we took and will be there when breath we take no more."
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Published: Jan 8, 2026Duration: 2:29

E96 - Mirrors
This reflection explores love not as something we give or receive, but as something we remember together. It speaks to the way we mirror one another—both in our recognition of truth and in the places within us that believe they have fallen outside of love. In the quiet presence we share, even anger, fear, and grief are invited into the light, not to be fixed, but to be seen. What unfolds is not acquisition or effort, but a gentle remembering of what has always been whole.....................................
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Published: Jan 8, 2026Duration: 2:54

E94 - Silence
A quiet exploration of silence as fullness, where nothing needs to be added and love is already complete.
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
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Published: Jan 6, 2026Duration: 3:49

Embodiment after Survival
Dissociation is a natural protective response to overwhelming experience. When something feels too much to bear, awareness may pull back—creating a sense of distance from the body, emotions, or the present moment. This is not a failure, but a survival strategy. Healing involves restoring safety and connection so presence can return gradually and on its own terms.
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
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Published: Jan 5, 2026Duration: 5:40

E90 - On the Nature of Things
The eternal truth abides in all things. Even the atom bears witness— to love taking form.
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Published: Jan 5, 2026Duration: 3:18

E89 - Love Notes XXIV
Human life cannot be reduced to psychology, doctrine, practice, or service. It unfolds across silence, love, suffering, creativity, lineage, and care - and none of it is optional.
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Published: Jan 5, 2026Duration: 5:32

Love Notes XXIV
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
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Published: Jan 5, 2026Duration: 0:31

E88 - A Sacred Collection of Remembrance
Love as the Organizing Principle of The Universe
Over the years, as I moved through and out of the darkness within, I began to reconnect with the light and love that had waited patiently for my return. In those moments of stillness and opening, certain “downloads” would simply appear—dropping gently into my consciousness.
My students, clients, patients at the time affectionately called them Nigel’isms. I never felt they were mine; rather, I experienced myself as a conduit through which they flowed.
I have edited, refined them, gathered many of them here in this c...
Published: Jan 3, 2026Duration: 4:36

E87 - Love Notes XXIII
Be Kind
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Published: Jan 3, 2026Duration: 4:46

E86 - A Morning Ritual
To be practiced before anything else..........................upon awakening
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Published: Jan 3, 2026Duration: 3:32

New Years Message
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
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Published: Jan 2, 2026Duration: 2:16

E82 - Healing
Healing is not the removal of wounds, but the remembering of love beneath them. It is a quiet return to what was never truly lost—only forgotten in the necessity of survival. In this remembrance, the places that once ached are met with warmth, and what was held in protection is gently allowed to rest.
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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...
Published: Dec 31, 2025Duration: 3:45

The Alchemy of The Heart
Change does not arrive through control or argument, but through a gentler alchemy of the heart. This piece points toward the way inner healing becomes a field of peace for the world.
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
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Published: Dec 29, 2025Duration: 1:01

E79 - Meditation: The Alchemy of the Heart
A slow, spacious meditation on inner alchemy—where suffering is held with love, the heart softens, and peace quietly radiates outward into the world, and suffering is met with kindness, and love is allowed to transform from within.
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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
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Published: Dec 29, 2025Duration: 4:13

E77 - A Christmas Message
Before the words,
there is a pause.
A quiet moment
where nothing is required
and warmth is already near.
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
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Published: Dec 24, 2025Duration: 2:35

HOW? A relection on wisdom born of listening, survival, and presence.
This was not knowledge gathered, but awareness shaped by survival, tenderness, and time. A way of knowing that arose before words, matured through embodiment, and continues to speak softly from the places where pretense falls away.
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
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Published: Dec 24, 2025Duration: 3:50

E73 - Money and Presence
Many of us turn to money for safety without realizing what we are truly seeking. This piece listens for the Immortal Presence beneath that longing.
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
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Published: Dec 22, 2025Duration: 1:20

E71 - Covenant of Hope
My hope is to walk in the world through a lived covenant— not by rules imposed, but by rhythms chosen in love, and to protect the quiet.
My hope is that my presence helps others feel safe enough to soften, to breathe, and to come home to themselves.
My hope is to carry a familiarity with the unseen, and to help people trust the movements of the soul— not as ideas, but as lived experience.
My hope is to midwife inner transitions: to stand beside those shedding old identities, meeting fear, or preparing for...
Published: Dec 22, 2025Duration: 2:28

E70 - If People Only Knew
If people only knew how precious they are—how close we already are, how much is being entrusted to us in every breath—harm would become inconceivable, not forbidden, but impossible to imagine.
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
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Published: Dec 21, 2025Duration: 3:54