TEA AND ZEN - THREADS

From ‘Love and Sleep’ by John Crowley Read by 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

Love is the bridge between you and everything, and the truth, the ever loving truth can often be seen just beyond the shadows - Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī. and you are it! can you fathom that, can you understand that you are, as you are right here in this moment, that you are creation itself, all Love manifesting to the contrary of anything else! - Nigel Lott meditationsansfrontieres.com 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

Breathe in through the nose for 4 seconds, hold at the top for four seconds, breathe down your nose four seconds, hold four seconds….repeat the cycle 10 times…gently…so very gently. Let all worldly experience dissolve in the well of the spiritual heart, just below the sternum. Be at Peace. 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

“Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful. Persist in gratitude, and you will slowly become one with the Sun of Love, and Love will shine through you its all-healing joy. The path of gratitude is not for children; it is path of tender heroes, of the heroes of tenderness who, whatever happens, keep burning on the altar of their hearts the flame of adoration.” Rumi 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

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. - Rumi 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

MAY ALL LOVE BECOME YOU…………………………………………………..MAY YOU BE AT PEACE 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

“It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain! I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!” It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.” 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

Nigel Lott ….teaandzen.org 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

‘Tayata Om Bekanze Bekanze Maha Bekanze Radza Samudgate Soha’ Speak this softly, silently within the spiritual heart space in that soft center below the sternum three times. In doing so releasing all darkness and suffering that dwells in you, that you might then see the light and love within….of your true nature. 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

There’s not us or them, or me and you. There is ultimately only ONE of us, ONE LOVE that unites the two seemingly separate entities, binding us together, yet simultaneously setting us free in the PEACE that passes all understanding, that all hearts desire. Stop still in silent wonder and consider this please., seeing other as a reflection of self, of that ONE LOVE, nothing more, nothing less, and treat accordingly. Make each thought, word and action, with all forms of life an ever increasing interaction of such kindness and compassion that your whole life becomes an act of service to this end in everything you do. 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

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

‘Underscore’ Hampus Naeselius Love is the one and only thing we are capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space. It is the only thing that permeates all matter, all form, and the absence of any form or matter. It is simply on every breath we take, was there before breath we took and will be there when breath we take no more. It is the conveyor of all truth and as such all suffering is healed in its presence, when laid bare at its feet. 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

In order to be free, to align our will with that of the Universe and what it is wanting to create, there comes a time in any given life when with great courage (whatever the consequences) we are asked to be in integrity with the truth found only within the spiritual heart and its inherent wisdom, and to make a stand there, with our feet firmly planted on the ground. Every thought, word and deed is then taken in kindness and compassion……in the name of Love….all peace be on earth. Is this such a moment for you now? I HOPE so. Nigel Lott meditationsansfrontieres.com 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

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

‘Silent Scream’ Hushed Any thought, word or deed committed by one affects all others, and oneself entire………there is no escaping this universal truth. What will your thoughts, words, actions be then? What will they support? What will you create today? What will your choice be? Darkness or Light? 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

‘Libra’ Sayuri Hayashi Egnell May we have the courage to fall in love and stay there, this day and forevermore. 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

“Your own healing process, that creative movement betwixt the accumulated shadows that have surrounded your heart, (out of your suffering) and the light and love of your true nature (always present)…… has the power to change the world……..of this…….have no doubt.” 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

Please support my charity non profit at meditationsansfrontieres.com by taking out a subscription here. 501 (C) 3 non - profit, registered charity EIN # 81-3411835 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

We have to know and believe, even in these most troubled of times that we are being watched over. Hard to imagine that the people in this world who are suffering so much are being watched over, wherever that suffering is being made manifest in this world of ours. Perhaps we can make this poem a blessing then, in that if we believe they are not being watched over, if we think somehow that God has abandoned them to their fate, may we pray that they are again to be watched over and that a holy lamp again be lit within their hearts. Nigel Lott P.S. This of course is for ourselves as well in that whenever we are suffering and believe that we are not being watched over, that we have been abandoned that we know that contrary to our suffering we are indeed being watched over and that a holy lamp be lit again in our hearts. That in all truth, though hard to know at times, the light is always on and we are indeed being watched over, we are never in all reality alone. 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

6th Third Eye Chakra Kundalini Breath….369 The truth will have its way sooner or later, and by the truth I mean the awareness and practice of acts of the deepest realms of kindness and compassion , which is what the universe is creating, wanting to create……in its LOVE. ‘Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation’. Rabindranath Tagore We can pull in the other direction, and we often do….which will always be our suffering, or allow ourselves to heal, to surrender. For we will always be drawn, like a tractor beam….pulled back to the truth…..and so it goes…on and on, no doubt an aspect of the creative process. We follow that ache and yearning that quality of grief at the center of our spiritual hearts to its natural conclusion, Love…. of our alignment with the will of the universe, bit by bit, day by day. It all sounds like a long ways away, yet it is less then a blink of an eye away at any given moment. We can do what we can to align ourselves with that will, the will of the universe, or of God, by any other name in this lifetime, or wait which is always going to be painful. We can commit to doing the work now this very day to open our hearts, to surrender to the truth of it all….LOVE If not before, certainly at the moment of our death we fully finally realize our true nature [un-encumbered by any aspect of ego] in becoming one with all that is we realize it has always been about LOVE, it always was, and will always be! In the interests of the sentient beings on this planet, all life forms, will you do whatever you can to surrender to Love and help the universe in its efforts in the name of all PEACE? May all Love become manifest. 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

The greatest act of service that we can give another sentient being is our own work on ourselves, and then it's out of that place, of surrendering and transcending our own suffering places (that movement from darkness to light) that we offer that back out to others for their own awakening, for their own movement towards the light within them…. in its turn setting the whole world free. 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

Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on ripened grain. I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there. I did not die. Mary Elizabeth Frye “Who we think we are dies, who we truly are does not, for we are a Love beyond measure, time and space, eternal in spirit, and forever One with all that is.” 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

You are the master alchemist. You light the fire of love, in earth and sky, in heart and soul, of every being. Through your love, existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again. 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

Hum What is this dark hum among the roses?The bees have gone simple, sipping,that's all. What did you expect? Sophistication?They're small creatures and they arefilling their bodies with sweetness, how could they notmoan in happiness? The littleworker bee lives, I have read, about three weeks.Is that long? Long enough, I suppose, to understandthat life is a blessing. I have found them — haven't you? —stopped in the very cups of the flowers, their wingsa little tattered — so much flying about, to the hive,then out into the world, then back, and perhaps dancing,should the task be to be a scout-sweet, dancing bee.I think there isn't anything in this world I don'tadmire. If there is, I don't know what it is. Ihaven't met it yet. Nor expect to. The bee is small,and since I wear glasses, so I can see the traffic andread books, I have totake them off and bend close to study andunderstand what is happening. It's not hard, it's in factas instructive as anything I have ever studied. Plus, too,it's love almost too fierce to endure, the beenuzzling like that into the blouseof the rose. And the fragrance, and the honey, and of coursethe sun, the purely pure sun, shining, all the while, overall of us. Read by 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

When we understand that the source of all Love lays within us, and always has been, within all life both seen and unseen, and is on every breath we take and when breath we take no more…..then we find ourselves able to Love without condition or limitation. To Love without expecting anything in return, (for we are already filled with Love) we Love without judgment, and without imposing conditions or restrictions on that Love, because we understand the infinite nature of it all. A Prayer May you awaken to your own sense of equanimity born out of your hearts longing for peace and re-discover the one true nature….LOVE… that is inherent within you, within us all…..beyond all suffering and travail. May you know the infinite possibilities that are born of knowing that all LOVE surrounds you, lives within you and that all life is so very precious, there is not a moment to lose. In the beginning, as in the end…..it is....all that is or ever was or ever will be. Nigel Lott. teaandzen.org 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

There is no greater ethical and moral principle than our duty toward the preservation of life, the sanctity of all forms of life, without practicing these principles in all our affairs ….. how then will we survive as a species? 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

LOKAH SAMASTHA SUKINO BHAVANTU lokah: location, realm, all universes existing now samastah: all beings sharing that same location sukhino: centered in happiness and joy, free from suffering bhav: 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. Nigel Lott All love be in your heart, and in your understanding. 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

From “The subject tonight is Love” by Hafiz 501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 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

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

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 truth is not to be found within the intellect, within the mind, it is only found within the silent heart, where all Love resides and all kindness and compassion are made manifest. It is within you to come to know, you are not bereft of this truth non of us are, it is all within you……may you find it NOW, may the magic begin. ‘Shaman’ Joseph Beg. 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

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 whole of planet Earth is a sacred site. All people are the chosen people, and the purpose of our lives is a spiritual one. May we care for each other, and for the Earth, for everything relates to everything else. Feeling this oneness, may we radiate the light of love and kindness that all may live in unity and peace." ~ Radha Sahar. 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

I have been to every continent on this planet, many major cities, and sat with so many people in this life of mine, and all I ever heard despite the barriers people had built up around themselves, was the profound desire to know peace, to be loved and to love…….just that. To recognize the unity of what it is to be human beyond all forms of separation and its suffering. To follow that ache and yearning for love to its final conclusion of oneness with all that is, that lay at the heart of every living soul it seems that I ever met, and to follow it in peace, to feel safe and secure, that only love, absolute reality can provide. May we all be at peace…it is after all…..our birthright. 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

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

In every conflict everyone plays a part, unwittingly at times but nonetheless there it is. The conflict ultimately is always the same at its core, driven by a profound fear that there is not enough LOVE for me. We can say it’s about this or that, sure but that’s surface stuff. The one great fear that drives all conflict is that there is a believe operating within the minds of those in conflict that there is not enough LOVE for me. I don’t mean sentimental love, as sweet as that is. I am talking about the very creative force of the universe, without which we cannot exist at any level. We believe that LOVE is limited (in the conflicted moment) not understanding by its very nature, LOVE is infinity in motion, there is always enough LOVE for us all. Only Minds Can Conflict, in the Oneness of the Heart there is only 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

The environmental crisis is inseparable from the spiritual crisis that exists within the soul of most modern men and women and, is in fact an objectivization of this primarily inward crisis. Seyyad Hossein Nasr Time is running out on our ability to manage successfully our impact on this our home, Mother Earth, its environment, bio-diversity, resource and life-support systems on which life as we know it depends. The response and action that is now required of us must be firmly rooted in our deepest moral and spiritual principles. Maurice Strong 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

“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” These are words written in history, in antiquity by the Master Jesus to describe the action of humility needed that creates an open heart that leads to a love that even words like ecstasy....does not even come close to describing the truth of that love .....that is the kingdom of heaven that Jesus describes. And that heaven is in your heart, not only out there in some far distant quadrant of any universe. It is within all hearts and is the space also in between our hearts and on every breath you take and when breath you take no more. It opens the door to the truth, the truth that patiently waits for the knock on the door of your heart, taken with all humility....that gives entry to the kingdom of heaven. Nigel Lott "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you” Matthew 7:7 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

May all love become you this night and forevermore…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

501 (C) 3 Non Profit Registered Charity TAX EIN 81-3411835 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

If what you are thinking or doing…..whatever it maybe…..if it is not accompanied on its journey from beginning to end with LOVE…..if it is not made manifest with kindness and compassion then it cannot be the truth of.....any matter. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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

“From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.” Tolkien J.R.R. ~ These words speak to a prophecy of hope and renewal in a time of darkness and despair. The idea of a hidden hero or king emerging from obscurity to fulfill their destiny and bring about a new era of light. Is it time for you to step out of your shadow and embrace the light?…..I hope that you will find it so. May all love become you ~ 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

Death is a favor to us,But our scales have lost their balance. The impermanence of the bodyShould give us great clarity,Deepening the wonder in our senses and eyes Of this mysterious existence we shareAnd are surely just traveling through. If I were in the Tavern tonight,Hafiz would call for drinks And as the Master poured, I would be remindedThat all I know of life and myself is that We are just a midair flight of golden wineBetween His Pitcher and His Cup. If I were in the Tavern tonight,I would buy freely for everyone in this world Because our marriage with the Cruel BeautyOf time and space cannot endure very long. Death is a favor to us,But our minds have lost their balance. The miraculous existence and impermanence ofFormAlways makes the illumined onesLaugh and sing…….Hafiz 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

Live compassion, kindness and peace, both as an inner state of being, and as a global aspiration for a harmonious world, and wherever you go….remember to go with all of your heart……..do it all in the name of Love. Nigel Lott | teaandzen.org 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

This P.E.A.C.E of music is aptly named Dream Trapper. It is said that when listened to, it will evoke only dreams within you that are dear to your heart…. and are created out of Love and only Love…all else will simply pass on through without notice undisturbed. Nigel Lott teaandzen.org 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

I was asked to record the sleep time meditation from - ‘Love is Blind; - that I sent out the other night…here it is then. It occurs to me to say in this moment that whatever darkness, whatever suffering is within you..it is no less lovable than anything in the light. Whatever is going on with you in any moment you are a being of such love, please know that!…. of all your days and of your nights. It is by knowing that, accepting that…the darkness is largely dispelled. What is important to know is that during sleep the ego self, that construct is somewhat off line, so to speak and the hearts truth is seen to arise in some aspects that our waking ego state finds hard to allow. So practicing this letting go meditation just before sleep has less barriers to move through….something like that. 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

Music ‘Purify’ Elm Lake Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world, the earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh 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

Listen to this music and follow this practice below just before sleep. It is said Love is blind yet, is it not the only thing that sees clearly of how it all is? open your heart to its light and may it burn away all the darkness, shadow by shadow let it all go into the light. Offer whatever is dark within you to this light just before you sleep every night as a meditation practice, lay it all down at the Masters feet, letting it go softly into the night, into the light of your ever present living soul. Go to sleep and do not be afraid. Be at Peace. Nigel Lott Music “Do Not Be Afraid’ Jacob Ahlbom 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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Take a moment, take two why don’t you and breathe Love into your heart space just below the sternum. Imagine it as a mist you are breathing in through that space. Love meeting Love. In an out breath by breath, remember who you are. Then please breathe that Love out to all those in need, and in particular to all those beings who are hurting, suffering. Visualize this mist coming out from within the spiritual heart and reaching near and far into all hearts everywhere. Your loved ones and those who you do not find it easy to Love, yes those too. As your heart opens more to the Love within and without which is your true nature. Keep going, don’t stop……..Love in, Love out…….was there really ever anything else? I THINK NOT! 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